The Director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Emir Suljagić, has filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina against SNSD President Milorad Dodik for glorifying convicted war criminals.
“I have filed a criminal complaint against Milorad Dodik for criminally denying genocide and glorifying war criminals. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, both are crimes. It is not my job to prosecute him. But my mission is to protect Srebrenica and its legacy from anyone who tries to erase, deny, relativize, ‘contextualize’, appropriate or otherwise undermine and distort the history of genocide. I don’t care who is on the other end,” Suljagić said.
The complaint refers to Dodik’s speech in which he said that convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić was “the Supreme Commander of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) and a national hero.”
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, denial of genocide and other war crimes and glorification of war criminals have been officially banned since 2021.
At that time, former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko announced that he had used the Bonn powers and imposed amendments to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
