The Association of Genocide Victims and Witnesses demands that January 9 be declared a day of mourning in the Republika Srpska entity and that the victims killed in the joint criminal enterprise be honored on that day.
The Association reminds that the tribunal in The Hague clearly and unequivocally established with legally binding judgments that in early 1992, while international negotiations were ongoing to resolve the issue of the status of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the leadership of the so-called Republika Srpska implemented their secret plan to separate the territories they considered their own, from the existing structures of SRBiH and create a separate state.
The assembly of the so-called Serbian Republic of BiH, the statement added, proclaimed the Serbian Republic of BiH on January 9, 1992, which will be renamed the Republika Srpska on August 12, 1992, and “on that basis, until November 1995, there was a joint plan that by committing crimes, Bosniaks and Croats are permanently removed from the territories to which they claimed”.
“The common criminal goal was shared by the senior political, military and police leadership in Serbia, SAO Krajina, SAO Slavonia, Baranja, Zapadni Srem and Republika Srpska, with key members, among others, who varied depending on the area and time of the crime, and that are: Slobodan Milošević, Radmilo Bogdanović, Radovan Stojičić Badža, Mihalj Kertes, Milan Martić, Milan Babić, Goran Hadžić, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, Momčilo Krajišnik, Biljana Plavšić and Željko Ražnatović “Arkan”,” remind the Association.
In this regard, they ask the members of the PIC, High Representative Christian Schmidt, and the President of the RS and the President of the National Assembly of the RS, to declare January 9 as a day of mourning in the RS and to honor the victims every January 9 criminal enterprise led, among other things, by the predecessors in the positions of president of RS and president of NSRS, convicted war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Momčilo Krajišnik.
