Director of the Canadian Genocide Research Institute (IGK) Emir Ramić sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly requesting that Canada ask the High Representative to ban the commemoration of the unconstitutional January 9.
As stated, the letter is based on the written response of the government from Kanda from 2020 regarding the unconstitutional celebration of the Day of BiH’s entity Republika Srpska (RS).
At the beginning of the letter, a part of the written response of the Government of Canada from 2020 was quoted.
“Please be assured that Canada is firmly committed to the General Framework Agreement for Peace and to preserving the territorial integrity and sovereignty of BiH in accordance with international law. As a member of the Steering Committee of the Peace Implementation Council, Canada supports Bosnia and Herzegovina in its development as a stable, sustainable , a democratic multi-ethnic state, encourages it to cooperate peacefully with its neighbors and strongly supports its path towards Euro-Atlantic integration,” was stated, among other things, in the quoted part.
In the meantime, the Government of Canada reacted harshly several times to the anti-state activities of the President of the RS Milorad Dodik and his political establishment.
“Given the aforementioned written response of the Government of Canada from 2020 and after that several harsh condemnations of the anti-state activities of Milorad Dodik and his political establishment, we ask Canada, as a responsible member of the Governing Board of the Council for the Implementation of Peace in BiH, to urgently propose an extraordinary convening of the Governing Board that would ordered the high representative of the international community in BiH to take urgent measures and decisions in accordance with his constitutional competences to protect the implementation of the civilian part of the Dayton Peace Agreement, i.e. to ensure the normal functioning of state institutions in order to protect the territorial integrity, independence, sovereignty and political and legal subjectivity of BiH”, says Ramić.
He reminds that the high representative, as the most responsible and powerful personification of the international community, announced a year ago that we will no longer look at the “January 9th rip-off of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, but also at truth, justice, human dignity and the dignity of the UN and its international courts.
“At the same time, we ask Canada, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Council for the Implementation of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to once again request the concrete action of the judicial authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of prosecuting all those who work directly against the state. Canada must react to Dodik’s attacks on the state order, on the Constitutional Court, on the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on peace and stability. Canada must react to Dodik’s adoption of acts and laws so that they are ready for the day that he announced as a historically favorable moment for the declaration of independence of the RS,” Ramić points out.
The letter concludes with the statement that January 9 reminds all activists and fighters for truth and justice in Canada and the world of the horror of aggression and genocide and the attempt to destroy the state of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Finally, we once again inform the political leaders of Canada and the Canadian, as well as the world public, that the goals of the declaration of January 9, according to which part of Bosnia and Herzegovina should have been annexed to Serbia, will never be realized,” concluded Ramić.
