Last night, the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska (NARS) voted on a conclusion asking the representatives of the RS in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PABiH) to propose a law banning the abuse of the term genocide.
This means that state parliamentarians from RS are returning to the parliamentary benches.
Nenad Stevandic (United Srpska – US) stressed yesterday that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, did not persuade him to make any moves, that is, to create a terrain for his return to state institutions, and that he was not working on the dictates of Milorad Dodik.
But, the fact is that Stevandic recently announced in an interview that the ruling coalition in RS will come up with this bill and that everyone else in the ruling structure would support it very quickly. Even then, it was clear that this would be a way to return to BiH institutions and (new) end of the boycott.
In the context of amendments to the BiH Criminal Code done by former High Representative Valentin Inzko that refer to banning genocide denial and glorifying war crimes and criminals, the RS government now believes that calling any nation, entity, individual, or ethnic group genocidal should be bannedthroughout BiH, and that the term ”genocide” must not be abused.
SDA leader Bakir Izetbegovic announced last week that this bill could receive the necessary support in a certain way, saying that Milorad Dodik was looking for a way to return to the BiH Parliament and the Council of Ministers with his partners and that this should be supported.
“And that’s good, we support it. We never called a nation, such as the Serbs, genocidal, nor did we call the RS like that. We accepted it in Dayton in 1995, but we know what happened before. Genocide happened and the military and the political structure that will establish the RS were involved. But we have no intention of insulting the entities and the peoples. So this is one way out,” he concluded.
After the bill reaches the PABiH, it will be interesting to see how the so-called Inzko’s law will be respected, ie whether RS representatives will continue to demand its abolition or the law banning the abuse of the term genocide will be just a new amendment to the BiH Criminal Code, which would mean that denying genocide remains legally punishable, as well as glorifying convicted war criminals and crimes.
E.Dz.
Source: Klix.ba
