[SNN] ICG: SERBIA'S SANDZAK: STILL FORGOTTEN

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SERBIA'S SANDZAK: STILL FORGOTTEN

Europe Report N°162 – 8 April 2005

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS......................................... i

I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 1

II. SANDZAK'S TWO FACES: PAZAR AND RASCIA ......................................... 2

A. SEEKING SANDZAK ...............................................................................................................2

B. OTTOMAN SANDZAK.............................................................................................................3

C. MEDIEVAL RASCIA ...............................................................................................................4

D. SERBIAN SANDZAK ...............................................................................................................4

E. TITOISM 5

III. THE MILOSEVIC ERA.................................................................................. 7

A. WHAT'S IN A NAME? .............................................................................................................7

B. COLLIDING NATIONALISMS...................................................................................................8

C. STATE TERROR ...................................................................................................................10

D. POLITICS OF APATHY ..........................................................................................................12

E. ECONOMIC BOOM AND BUST ..............................................................................................14

F. POPULATION MOVEMENTS..................................................................................................16

IV. POST-MILOSEVIC SANDZAK.................................................................. 16

A. THE POLITICAL MAP...........................................................................................................16

1. SDA ascendancy......................................................................................................17

2. Ugljanin's "historic Sandzak" ..................................................................................19

3. Bosniak dissatisfaction with Ugljanin .....................................................................19

4. Change in 2004 ........................................................................................................20

B. THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR .....................................................................................................22

1. Islam: modernity vs. tradition..................................................................................23

2. The Serbian Orthodox Church.................................................................................26

C. EDUCATION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE .............................................................................28

1. Education in Sandzak...............................................................................................28

2. Duelling universities................................................................................................29

3. Religion in schools ..................................................................................................30

4. Linguistic apartheid .................................................................................................30

5. Civil society .............................................................................................................31

D. LAND WITHOUT JUSTICE: POLICE AND THE JUDICIARY .......................................................32

1. Policing after 2000...................................................................................................32

2. The judicial farce .....................................................................................................33

E. STALLED ECONOMY............................................................................................................34

F. SOURCES OF ETHNIC TENSION ............................................................................................35

G. THE MEDIA.........................................................................................................................38

H. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL OBSTACLES.....................................................................40

V. CONCLUSION ......................................................................................... 42

APPENDICES

A. MAP OF SERBIA ..................................................................................................................44

B. MAP OF SANDZAK REGION..................................................................................................45

C. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP .......................................................................46

D. CRISIS GROUP REPORTS AND BRIEFING PAPERS ON EUROPE SINCE 2002 ............................47

E. CRISIS GROUP BOARD MEMBERS........................................................................................49

 
CONTINUED...................http://s95376427.onlinehome.us/SNN/ICG/Sandzak.pdf
 

SRDJAN D. STOJANOVIC, MSc

Analyst
International Crisis Group
27. Marta 42, 3rd floor
Belgrade 11120
Serbia

Tel: + 381 11 303 49 54
Fax: + 381 11 303 49 55

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