SRPSKI SABORI I MITINZI: PORUKE I PRIJETNJE O PROMJENAMA TOKOM 1990-IH GODINA
SERBIAN PARLIAMENTS AND RALEIGHS: MESSAGES AND THREATS ABOUT CHANGES DURING THE 1990s

Author(s): Jasmin Medić
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Social history, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: Serbian assemblies; mass rallies; Serbian Democratic Party (SDS); Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC); Yugoslavia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Kosovo;
Summary/Abstract: Based on available sources and relevant literature, this paper examines key assemblies and mass rallies held from the beginning of the process of dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) until the end of the 1990s. These gatherings were organized by governing political structures among the Serbian population in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as by representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), particularly in relation to the issue of Kosovo’s status and constitutional framework. The analytical focus is placed on assemblies and rallies held in so-called “crisis areas” in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990 and 1991, as well as on assemblies convened in connection with the “Kosovo question” in 1997 and 1999. Consequently, special attention is devoted to the assemblies in Srb and Donja Gradina in 1990, the rallies in Banja Luka in 1991, and the Kosovo-related assemblies of 1997 and 1999. Although these were not the only assemblies and rallies organized during the 1990s, their significance lies in the fact that they articulated strong nationalist messages and announced prospective changes to state and republican borders. The decisions adopted at these gatherings, the messages conveyed, the political and social context in which they were held, and the consequences they generated constitute the central analytical concerns of this study.

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