Kecmanović: Bosnia unsustainable after Jasenovac and Srebrenica

Nened Kecmanović argues that Bosnia and Herzegovina has become a "twice impossible" state following the historic atrocities at Jasenovac and Srebrenica. He claims the post‑World War II decision to make Bosnia a republic within the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, and later a sovereign state under a Western protectorate, created only a fragile constitutional fiction, vulnerable to external pressure and internal division.

Kecmanović suggests that the ethnic boundaries established through mutual ethnic cleansing during the 1990s could be formalised as state borders, turning internal administrative units into separate states. He cites the International Commission for Srebrenica and other legal opinions that question the genocide verdicts, while asserting that Bosniak narratives continue to view the events as genocide. The commentary also mentions past referenda and the perceived manipulation of demographic and political structures to maintain Bosnia’s existence despite what he describes as chronic dysfunction.