Etatizmom protiv "muslimanske reakcije" Tuzle i okoline krajem 1940-tih godina
WITH ETATISM AGAINST THE “MUSLIM REACTION” OF TUZLA AND THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE END OF THE 1940’S

Summary/Abstract: The data presented in this paper is based on primary historical sources and offers facts about the attitude of the new regime towards non-dissenters and the position of Bosniaks of the Tuzla region from 1947. to 1949. This period is characterized by the fact that all parts of the old Bosniak society, especially Islamic-oriented intellectuals, were at the onset of the communist regime. Two lawsuits were instituted against them: the first, against a group headed by Kasim Dobraca in 1947 and the second, against the Young Muslims in 1949. During these processes, the Bosniaks of the Tuzla region were labeled in various ways (by “reactionary element”, “remnants of class society”, “bandits”, “Muslim reaction”, and enemies of the “new bright future”). They were constantly monitored, wiretapped, heard, prosecuted, and often liquidated. In the meantime, official policy has abolished the national name Muslim, recognized during the National Liberation Struggle (NOB) and confirmed by decisions of the Antifascist National Liberation Council of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) and the National Antifascist Council for National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBIH). This was done during the first post-war census in 1948. According to the nationalist political concept, Bosnian Muslims were, allegedly, ethnically amorphous group, and they should gradually, depending on their cultural advancement, declare them self as Serbs or as Croats. This is evidenced by the official and unofficial results of the census we provide in the text.

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