The example of the announced structure of the future Federation Government and the recent revision of the structure of the RS Government testifies as to how radical the IC will be in this case. The HR stated recently in Vienna that the national intolerance had not existed in BiH until national parties came to power. I guess that this was supposed to be an argument for the imposed elimination of the national parties from BiH Authorities and for the promotion of the Croat cadres, who were not legitimately elected by the Representatives of the Croat people, but who came to power through the IC election engineering. If Mr. Petritsch dealt with politics, even just a little bit, then he would know that the nationalism has been a European constant since the first nations appeared on a social scene. Since BiH is situated at the boundary of civilizations, cultures and religions, where the interests of the great powers were coming into a conflict, it is understandable that the religious and ethnic intolerance was even more intense.
Historical events are a proof of it.
The roots of the intolerance in BiH appeared before the Turkish Empire, when Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Patarenes were coming into the conflict. With the coming of the Ottoman conquerors these conflicts were intensified, while the Christian population never made a piece with the conquerors, who were a threat for the whole Europe. The whole epic culture grew out of these conflicts. A try of Austria to europeanize BiH and solve an ethnic issue through the creation of the so-called Bosnian nation ended with the First World War. Perhaps, Mr. Petritsch read only the literature from the Communist Yugoslavia time where he could read that the ethnic issue was finally and permanently solved by the formula of brotherhood and unity.