Ejup Ganić (born 3 March 1946) is a Bosnian engineer, politician and academic who served as President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001.
Ganić was born on 3 March 1946 in Sebečevo village near Novi Pazar in the Sandžak geographical region of Serbia, then a part of SFR Yugoslavia.
During the war, the Bosnian government and the SDA were divided into two groups, one that looked to the West, and the other, called the Sandžak faction, hardliners that wished to take on all.
[11][12] Marko Attila Hoare, a leading scholarly expert on Bosnian history, wrote this after British authorities detained Ganić: "This incident demonstrates that Serbia is still very far from showing repentance for its aggression against Bosnia during the 1990s.
On the contrary, with the arrest of Ganić, Serbia is continuing this aggression, by attempting to persecute Bosnians guilty only of trying to defend their country from it.