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"en.20060216.15.4-150"2
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, people have experience of different types of rule. The era of Turkish rule was to the benefit of the Muslims in the centre and North-West who regard themselves as the real Bosnians; the Roman-Catholics in the South-West, who call themselves Croats, did well for themselves under Austrian rule; and the Yugoslavian era benefited the Orthodox in the North and East, who describe themselves as Serbs. Bosnia was disbanded as an administrative unit in the 1920s and re-established after the Second World War as a mixed area in the centre of the federal state that was intended to help integrate the different peoples within Yugoslavia, of which it was itself a miniature version. That proved a complete washout. During the 1992-1995 war, each of those groups made unilateral attempts to impose their own wishes. Dayton was a panacea intended to provide peace and reconciliation, and, whilst it is an inefficient and costly structure, it was born from the need for conciliation between widely diverse aspirations, and so, despite all its flaws, it should not simply be discarded, but should instead be used to build a federal structure in which all can live sustainably in peace with one another. The people must be able to choose freely rather than being told what to do by Europe."@en1
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