Ramiz Salkic, the Vice President of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entity of Republika Srpska, said today, reacting to the events in Vlasenica and accusing members of the Vlasenica Police Station of Bosniak nationality to call for war, to remind these activities of those from the end of 1991 and the beginning of 1992 when Bosniaks were accused of everything, followed by persecution of Bosniaks, deportation, rape and, ultimately, genocide against Bosniaks.
“We must never lose sight of the fact that the verdict of the International Court of Justice in The Hague established that parts of the RS entity police were convicted of committing genocide against Muslims – Bosniaks living in the “safe zone” of the UN Srebrenica. Also, it should be known that in Prijedor, the most serious crimes against Bosniaks and Croats were committed by members of the RS entity police, as well as in many other places,” said Salkic.
At the entity’s SAJ MUP line-up on January 9 in Banja Luka, members of this unit publicly sang a song that spreads religious and national hatred, calling for hatred of everything that is not Serbian Orthodox.
In Vlasenica, in 1992, Bosniaks were tortured and killed at the police station, after which the survivors were taken to the Susica camp, where hundreds of Bosniak detainees were tortured, raped and killed, Salkic recalls.
He emphasizes that this behavior of the entity police is a classic example of pressure and intimidation of Bosniaks from Vlasenica and Podrinje in order to leave their homes again. According to Salkic, the policy of Bosnian Serbs in this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including these activities of the Ministry of the Interior, is aimed at radicalizing Bosniaks in order to justify their future activities against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosniaks.
“Bosniaks should be aware of these provocations, intentions and environments, and they should not respond hastily. It is our obligation to be vigilant and aware of the activities in the environment and to act responsibly in accordance with that,” says Salkić. In Vlasenica, the MUP entity has to investigate dozens of those who participated in various ways in the crimes against Bosniaks in 1992, and I urge them to document these crimes and forward them to the competent authorities.
This pressure on the Bosniaks of Vlasenica has to do with the current trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on suspicion of war crimes against Bosniaks in 1992 in Vlasenica.
