The international expert team of the Institute for Genocide Research Canada sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Governor General, members of the Government and Parliament of Canada, in which Canada is requested to stop Milorad Dodik, the main generator of the destruction of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as his allies who continuously produce fear, hatred and insecurity.
Among other things, the letter states:
“The convicted former president of the smaller BiH entity RS Milorad Dodik gave a scandalous interview to the conservative American media Lindell TV, whose owner is Mike Lindell, a well-known ally of Donald Trump. In the interview, he uttered blatant untruths such as that Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina are collaborators with Iran, that they were on Hitler’s side in World War II and built concentration camps for children, and that Serbs are being robbed of property and churches.
Dodik’s multi-year anti-Bosnian, anti-European and anti-civilizational, and therefore anti-Canadian campaign must finally be stopped and sanctioned because it is dangerously deepening the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.
This is the most dangerous practice since the end of the armed act of aggression and genocide, which threatens the stability of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its sovereignty, territorial integrity and political subjectivity.
The stability of the region and Europe is threatened, and all of Canada’s previous activities regarding a better future for Bosnia and Herzegovina have been humiliated. Young generations who do not have their own experience of times of aggression and genocide are victims of his continuous anti-state activities. This must be prevented by decisive action. Dodik’s revisionism is dangerous for peace in Europe.
We call on Canada to respond with concrete and decisive measures to these serious threats to peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the region.
We invite Canada, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Peace Implementation Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to ask all members to urgently address these dangerous statements. Canada, as one of the leaders in the world in the field of human rights and freedoms and as a country that supports BiH and the culture of memory, and that previously asked all political entities in BiH to respect the decisions of judicial bodies, has a historic duty to use all democratic means to oppose Dodik’s anti-civilization statements that dangerously threaten peace and the state of BiH.
