“Though ultimately unsuccessful in halting, or even giving pause to the Ustasha’s massacres, the resolutions were not only an important gesture in their local context, but in the wider context of the Holocaust” Opinion | hikmet_karcic
2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Yugoslavia. On April 6, 1941, when the Axis began bombing all the major towns across the region and within days, the Yugoslav army had surrendered, and it was officially occupied.
Caught in the middle of the ensuing genocidal violence, between a large group of Axis forces, local Muslims found themselves between a rock and a hard place. A concerted response was made in the form of a series of resolutions which were initiated and signed by members of the Bosniak establishment, comprising the clergy and the judicial and economic elites, who sought to distance themselves from the Ustasha regime. In fact, most of the people to actually sign these resolutions were actually Imams, members ofThis response was both altruistic and at the same time, pragmatic.
This resolution, initiated and supported by members of the Islamic Community was signed in Tuzla by an informal group of Bosniak citizens of the town and addressed to Dzafer-bey Kulenovic, vice-president of the Independent State of Croatia. , dated November 22, 1941 took the form of a letter to two senior members of the Ustasha government was also strong in its condemnation of the stealing and destruction of Serb and Jewish property.
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