RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 219, Part II, 10 November 2000
BOSNIAN-CROAT LEADER THREATENS TO BREAK UP FEDERATION. Ante
Jelavic, the Croatian member of Bosnia's three-man presidency
and head of the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ), said on
9 November that he will break up the Muslim-Croatian
Federation if international officials punish the HDZ for
holding a referendum on autonomy, Reuters reported. Jelavic
said at a campaign rally in Mostar that if the international
community punishes the HDZ, "we will proclaim the Croatian
National Congress the supreme legislative body and form a
provisional government for the Croatian people in Bosnia."
Jelavic said Croats will never accept a Bosnia based on
individual rights instead of the rights of the three ethnic
communities, and he called the Muslim-Croatian Federation "a
prison for Croatian people." Bosnia's high representative,
Wolfgang Petritsch, has banned some HDZ campaign posters and
said that the holding of a referendum on autonomy by the HDZ
during the 11 November elections will be declared illegal. PB
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