General information

Call No.:

350-1-1:39/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive

Located at

VHS PAL #39 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00000039

Original Title

Herz Jugoslawiens

Date of air

1992-01-14

Date

1992

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

German

Notes

Military/Para-Military

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

ORF reporter Claudia Neuhauser interviews citizens in pre-war Bosnia for their opinions on an independent Bosnia. As the war in Croatia escalates and the Yugoslav federation falls apart, the Bosnian government application for international recognition and independence from Yugoslavia is pending. The report cites the extensive ethnic and cultural mix of Bosnia's 4.2 million people: 44% Muslim, 31% Serb, and 17% Croat. Ejup Ganic of the Bosnian government explains how Bosnia's mixed cultural and ethnic heritage makes it a unique area. Ganic also states that recognition of an independent Bosnia is the solution to the Yugoslav crisis. The creation of Tito's communist Yugoslavia is then detailed. Jajce is exemplified as being a model for a Yugoslavia where all nationalities enjoy the same rights. Interviewed is Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Serbian Democratic Party, who states that an independent Bosnia is unacceptable to the Bosnian Serbs. According to Karadzic's plan, Bosnian should be split up, with the 600,000 Bosnian Serbs receiving 60% of the territory which would remain under the auspices of Yugoslavia. His plan also includes the designation of a bridge in Sarajevo which would separate Serbian Bosnia from the independent Bosnia. The report explains that the war in Croatia has affected the Bosnian economy whose monthly inflation is 20%, which will not change as long as Bosnia is a part of Yugoslavia. Banja Luka, the capital of the self-proclaimed Bosnian (Serb) Krajina, is then analyzed, where soldiers are a common sight on the streets, and the government receives direction from Yugoslavia. Finally, Claudia Neuhauser explains that the film crew was arrested by the Banja Luka police. At the police station the crew was interrogated, accused of Croat espionage, and their film material confiscated by the military police. Statements are made by three unidentified Bosnian men, two unidentified Bosnian women, and Habib Hadziosmanovic, a former partisan. Footage includes a Bosnian Muslim graveyard, a Bosnian Muslim praying in a Mosque, JNA soldiers, landscapes of Bosnia, Jajce waterfall, the room where Tito proclaimed Yugoslavia a new country, a sculpture of Tito, streets of Jajce, a Jajce marketplace, a map of Bosnia's pre-war ethnic makeup, a map of Karadzic's plan for the division of Bosnia, Sarajevo's pre-war National Library, a grocery store (presumably in Sarajevo), apartment buildings in Sarajevo, a poster of Captain (Kapetan) Dragan, and JNA soldiers in Banja Luka.

Context

Associated Names

ORF (Copyright holder, Producer)