bosnia

As centuries passed, these 'Bosniaks' came to regard themselves as perfect Croats.

Ismet lives in Zenica inside the 'Bosniak' Federation.

The category of ‘Muslim’ was created in the 1980's to offer 'Bosniacs' and other Slavic Muslims a nationhood and thus a group enfranchisement that would be parallel to that of Bosnian Croats, and Serbs, but the term led to contradictions.

Now they are returning to reclaim those properties from the Bosniaks who took refuge there, creating resentment among 'Bosniaks' at what many see as double standards by the international community.

Like all other ethnic minorities in Kosovo, the 'Bosniaks' and Gorani have now an increased level of fear and their confidence in existing security systems has been subject to the same erosions as other groups.