Bosnia and Herzegovina - Flags Proposed upon Independence

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• Green, Red, Blue Proposal
• SDA Party Proposal
• BDU Party Proposal
• Proposal used by the Defenders of Sarajevo

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• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Flag of 1992
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - The 1998 Flag Change

Green, Red, Blue Proposal

by Jorge Candeias

The first proposal for a national flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a threeband green, red, blue (green for the muslim, red for the croatian people, and blue for the serbian people).
Jaume Olle', 6 November 1996

I haven't heard of this one, even if it sounds logical and might have been proposed. I don't know how official this proposal was.
Zeljko Heimer, 7 November 1996

In "Vlaggen uit de hele Wereld" (the Dutch edition of William Crampton's The World of Flags) which was published in 1992 mentions that a horizontal tricolour of green, red and blue was reported, but not adopted officially.
Mark Sensen, 22 December 1997

Do you mean a green-red-blue design for Bosnia? Both vertical and horizontal designs of that colours (in various orders) where mentioned here and there, but as far as I know none of them came not even near to some official status. One green-red-blue vertical design (with unequal stripes) was proposed by Serbs at some point, but was not considered as serious (I posted it some