Uloga Srpske demokratske stranke u okupaciji Višegrada 1992. godine i počinjenju zločina nad Bošnjacima
The Role of the Serbian Democratic Party in the Occupation of Višegrad in 1992 and the Commission of Crimes Against Bosniaks

Summary/Abstract: The Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was formed on July 12, 1990. Dr. Radovan Karadžić was elected its president. The party was formed with the full support and control of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and its leader, Slobodan Milošević. The program of activities of the Serbian Democratic Party, since its founding, has been based, among other things, on Greater Serbia program documents, starting with “Drawings” by Ilija Garašanin from 1844, to the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) from 1986. This was shown the following year after the founding of the party, when the Assembly of the FR of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991 started a debate on the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina within truncated Yugoslavia. The SDS accepted the political option of explicitly rejecting the idea of independent development of the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina. That party was of the opinion that Bosnia and Herzegovina was only one administrative-territorial unit, and not a state. The activities of the SDS from its founding until the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 confirm the fact that it was the implementer in the field of what was conceived by the Greater Serbia ideology and politics, and its leaders were in Belgrade. The SDS was a mobilizer and organizer on the ground. SDS military formations, aided by the Yugoslav People’s Army, took part in open aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in calling for and inciting the commission of numerous crimes against humanity and international law against non-Serbs in all occupied and besieged towns and cities. The political and military activities of the SDS were aimed at breaking up Bosnian society from within. Such action resulted in the commission of the greatest crimes on the soil of Europe after the Second World War. In that sense, the entire Podrinje, and thus Višegrad, has been marked by the SDS as a strategically important place. This fact is proved by the adopted so-called Decision on strategic goals of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The SDS Višegrad documentary material confirms the thesis of intentional, planned, systemic and organized action on the creation of ethnically pure Serb areas in that part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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