Vice-President of the BiH entity Republika Srpska Ramiz Salkić strongly condemned the political attempts by the RS to, as he stated, decrease the final number of Bosniaks in the results of the census from 2013.
“In the past several weeks we have been witnesses to the culmination of political dissatisfaction from the RS, with which attempts are being made to manipulate the census results. That dissatisfaction is followed by unlawful activity by the Agency for Statistics of RS, aimed at excluding 120.000 BiH citizens, among whom the majority are Bosniaks, from the final result and thus distorting the real demographic image of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We must remember that ever since the beginning of preparations and implementation of the census the entity Agency has been imposing constant obstructions in order to register the least number of Bosniaks and Croats as possible. This was contributed to by the intensified control of entity authorities during the obtaining of personal documents that had been implemented throughout the entity,” Salkić stated.
The exiled Bosniaks had to, Salkić reminds, bring evidence that they own property, that they have a house and an address so that they could register residence, when thousands of houses were burnt to the ground.
In addition to such pressures and controls, the RS is now trying to manipulate the number of Bosniaks and Croats with political and demographic engineering, which is absolutely intolerable.
“Such intentions from Banja Luka are backed up by concerning inertness and lack of interest with the official Croat politics in BiH in the fate of Croats in the RS. We are aware that authorities from Banja Luka want to present the number of Bosniaks which amounts to under 50% and they want to do it at any cost.
Bosniaks and Croats have been exiled from the territory of the present RS and there is no possibility for them to come back to their homes. On behalf of the Bosniaks who live in the RS, I protest in front of the relevant international organizations and demand that the interest of Bosniaks as a constitutive nation is protected in accordance with European norms and the laws of BiH,” said the statement by the Vice-President of RS, Ramiz Salkić.
(Source: klix.ba)
