As of September, Belgrade and Banja Luka will launch a great campaign to protect properties of around 400,000 Serbs in BiH, as a perfidious plan of ownership change is being implemented, affecting the most the people in the Diaspora, unaware of what is happening in BiH.<\/p>\n
The goal is to call on Serbs abroad by way of diplomatic and consular missions of Serbia, Serb associations across the world, local media, social networks, to apply in order to prevent their losing houses, fields or forests in the Federation of BiH.<\/p>\n
Under the pretext of \u2018harmonizing the cadaster and land registers in the FBiH,\u2019 the old owners are being erased for several years and all has intensified lately.<\/p>\n
The FBiH is publishing advertisements and calling on owners to apply for registration, but it is being done by way of local media outlets, the Official Gazette or municipal notice boards.<\/p>\n
The deadline for application is only 60 days, and if the owner fails to act before expiration, the property is registered in someone else\u2019s name, most often in the name of the municipality, canton, and not so seldom, in the name of a neighbor.<\/p>\n
According to available data, land and other properties claimed by Serbs are worth billions of euros.<\/p>\n
According to the 1991 population census, around 8,400 sq. km of land in FBiH territory were registered in the name of Serb owners, hence the calculation \u2013 if only two euros were paid for one square meter of land, the figure would reach almost EUR 17 billion.<\/p>\n
Preparations are underway to enable Serbs to apply for registration also by way of the mobile applications Viber and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n
The Director of the Serbian Foreign Ministry\u2019s Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, Arnaud Gouillon, told this paper that Serbia would help to inform as many people as possible, and that property owners or their descendants would contact legal assistance offices in Srpska, the existing six of them \u2013 in Banja Luka, Zvornik, Bijeljina, Isto\u010dno Sarajevo, Mrkonji\u0107 Grad and Nevesinje.<\/p>\n
\u2013 We want to reach out to the Serbs abroad who cannot even see those announcements, as we want what is Serbian to remain Serbian \u2013 Gouillon said.<\/p>\n
The coordinator of the Office for Expert Legal Assistance to Serbs in the FBiH, \u0110or\u0111e Radanovi\u0107, told Novosti that legal assistance offices had already received around 4,000 reports from Serbs of their property being seized and registered in the name of municipalities or cantons in the FBiH.<\/p>\n
\u2013 We expect the number of reports to increase significantly once Serbia launches the campaign. Estimates from the field show that the property from these 4,000 claims filed thus far is worth more than EUR 100 million \u2013 said Radanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
He noted that land owned by Serbs was being seized in every part of the FBiH, and mostly in the areas of Sarajevo, Mostar and Biha\u0107.<\/p>\n
\u2013 This is why I urge all Serbs whose houses, fields, forests were seized, to contact us \u2013 Radanovi\u0107 said.<\/p>\n
Source: RTRS<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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