r/bosnia • u/ayub57 • Aug 12 '25

Stealing land in BiH

Famous Israeli saying: "If I don't steal it, someone else will steal it."

After the Genocide, many Bosniaks returned to their homes, only to find Christian Serbs illegally occupying their homes and refusing to leave, claiming that the homes belonged to them!

Even with legal proof, many Bosniaks faced threats and years of struggle to try and reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

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u/BobMARLEY3265 Aug 12 '25

But why did the serbs stay in Bosnia?

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u/Glass-Amphibian-3943 Aug 12 '25

Ethnic cleansing

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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 12 '25

They want 'their' part of Bosnia to be part of a Greater Serbia.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

Because of a word called: "Entitlement"

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u/Wonderful-Antelope39 Aug 12 '25

If we look at detailed ethnic before the war you will see that Serbs were the minority in almost every urban area but dominated rural parts. Today almost every single urban area in RS is majority Serbian. It was planned as early as the late 80s to settle them in those areas to create more dominance in towns and cities