Bosnia and Herzegovina
Headquarters: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Founded in: 1994
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“For maintaining their support for a humane, multi-ethnic, democratic Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
The Serb Civic Council (SCC) was a non-governmental organisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina working to achieve peace by political means. It aimed to safeguard a united and multi-cultural society, assist with the observance of parliamentary democracy, and work towards respect for human rights and ethnic equality.
The organisation was created in March 1994 by eminent Serbs living in Bosnia who were loyal to the multi-ethnic democratic Bosnian government and rejected “the Pale regime” of Radovan Karadzic. SCC grew to about 50,000 members, including about one-third of all Bosnian Serbs living in areas still controlled by the Bosnian government at the time of the Dayton Peace Accord, being organised through 20 offices in towns in those areas.
The organisation sought to achieve peace under the principles of preserving a democratic, internationally recognised and sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina; the equality of all citizens; the right of all displaced and expelled citizens to return to their homes; and the punishment of all war criminals.
Because of their activism, members of the SCC were specifically targeted for assassination.