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. S
EEKING SANDZAK ...............................................................................................................2B. O
TTOMAN SANDZAK.............................................................................................................3C. M
EDIEVAL RASCIA ...............................................................................................................4D. S
ERBIAN SANDZAK ...............................................................................................................4E. T
ITOISM 5III. THE MILOSEVIC ERA.................................................................................. 7
A. W
HAT'S IN A NAME? .............................................................................................................7B. C
OLLIDING NATIONALISMS...................................................................................................8C. S
TATE TERROR ...................................................................................................................10D. P
OLITICS OF APATHY ..........................................................................................................12E. E
CONOMIC BOOM AND BUST ..............................................................................................14F. P
OPULATION MOVEMENTS..................................................................................................16IV. POST-MILOSEVIC SANDZAK.................................................................. 16
A. T
HE POLITICAL MAP...........................................................................................................161. SDA ascendancy......................................................................................................17
2. Ugljanin's "historic Sandzak" ..................................................................................19
3. Bosniak dissatisfaction with Ugljanin .....................................................................19
4. Change in 2004 ........................................................................................................20
B. T
HE RELIGIOUS FACTOR .....................................................................................................221. Islam: modernity vs. tradition..................................................................................23
2. The Serbian Orthodox Church.................................................................................26
C. E
DUCATION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE .............................................................................281. Education in Sandzak...............................................................................................28
2. Duelling universities................................................................................................29
3. Religion in schools ..................................................................................................30
4. Linguistic apartheid .................................................................................................30
5. Civil society .............................................................................................................31
D. L
AND WITHOUT JUSTICE: POLICE AND THE JUDICIARY .......................................................321. Policing after 2000...................................................................................................32
2. The judicial farce .....................................................................................................33
E. S
TALLED ECONOMY............................................................................................................34F. S
OURCES OF ETHNIC TENSION ............................................................................................35G. T
HE MEDIA.........................................................................................................................38H.
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL OBSTACLES.....................................................................40V. CONCLUSION ......................................................................................... 42
APPENDICES
A.
MAP OF SERBIA ..................................................................................................................44B.
MAP OF SANDZAK REGION..................................................................................................45C.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP .......................................................................46D.
CRISIS GROUP REPORTS AND BRIEFING PAPERS ON EUROPE SINCE 2002 ............................47E.
CRISIS GROUP BOARD MEMBERS........................................................................................49SRDJAN D. STOJANOVIC, MSc
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