BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik announced today that he will oppose any reforms that would change the Dayton constitution of BiH, and at the same time, he once again disputed the extent of the genocide committed by members of the Bosnian Serb army and police against Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995.
In a speech he gave in Bratunac in eastern Bosnia, where a commemoration was organized for the Serbs who died there during the war from 1992 to 1995, Dodik offered the fate of those people to the crowd as proof that the Serbs cannot live with the people with whom they have for centuries only suffering.
Dodik: We cannot accept that fraud
He complained about the fact that those responsible for the suffering of Serbs in eastern Bosnia were not prosecuted and asserted that propaganda is at work, which tries to prove that more than eight thousand Bosniaks were killed in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Ignoring the numerous verdicts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Dodik stated that no court had proven the number of victims and presented the thesis that after the fall of Srebrenica, a maximum of three and a half thousand of its inhabitants were killed.
“We cannot accept that fraud,” said Dodik, who confirmed that he will run for the post of president of Republika Srpska in the October elections, and at the gathering in Bratunac, where the Serbian patriarch Porfirije was also present, practically already started his election campaign.
Dodik believes that we were forced into Bosnia and Herzegovina against our will
Drawing a line from the Ottoman conquests, through the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Second World War to the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the 90s of the last century, Dodik asserted that throughout history the Serbs were surrounded by enemies who tried to exterminate and displace them, and today they for the West, they are a bad people who should be constantly oppressed and blamed for non-existent guilt, so today they have to live in a country they don’t want.
“We were forced into BiH against (our) will”, Dodik said, emphasizing that the Republika Srpska was formed in 1992 to be an independent state, and then it was forced into the “closed BiH”.
“We will not go to BiH if it is not from Dayton”
He claims that Serbs are unjustly blamed for the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as for the current political crisis in the country, i.e. secessionist plans. He asserted that the RS is currently not on the path to secession, but it can remain in BiH only if that country continues to function as a Dayton creation.
“We will not be in BiH if it is not Daytonian. We do not need a European BiH if it is not Daytonian,” concluded Dodik.
