Tensions are growing ahead of the public pronouncement of the verdict against the President of the RS entity, Milorad Dodik, for disrespecting the decisions of the High Representative. While the outcome of the one-year trial is awaited, the pressure on the Court of BiH is increasing. There are already certain blockages of the work of state institutions, and there are threats of radical moves. In the meantime, EUFOR troops have been deployed in Srebrenica.
Representatives of the state authorities from RS are constantly emphasizing that if the verdict is in favor of Dodik and Lukić, there is no place for them in the institutions. Instead of attending the session of the Council of Ministers, SNSD ministers will be in front of the RS National Assembly at rallies. Earlier, representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH were supposed to discuss the dismissals of Košarac and Amidžić, but since SNSD will probably not attend the sessions, the ministers will retain their positions due to the lack of a quorum. The authorities in RS are already actively meeting regarding, as they themselves state, the overthrow of the BiH Constitution, which they will protect with their actions. The RS Government has adopted an Information, and the National Assembly will also discuss the same. The allegations are not about the trial of Dodik and Lukić, but of Republika Srpska.
“If the legal violence against Republika Srpska does not stop, and there is no political will and international support to return Bosnia and Herzegovina to its basics and transform it into a state in which the Dayton Constitution and laws are respected, Republika Srpska is obliged to take measures without delay to protect its Dayton position exclusively through political and legal means. funds”, the RS Government stated.
The opposition in RS decided not to attend the meeting with Dodik, says the former president of the SDS. Mirko Šarović says that Dodik gave legitimacy to the Court by coming to hearings and that he was late by not accepting the decisions. Although he believes that the trial should not have happened, he says that the people should not be dragged into this story.
“That fight, the battle for justice as he says, should have happened a year ago and he should have used all the opportunities available to him to resist it. I think it is unnecessary to call people, to hold a rally for one day, two days for some court process…”, said Šarović.
Due to the worrying announcements, EUFOR has already stated that they are on alert, and today the number of vehicles on the streets of Srebrenica has been increased, and at the meeting, Presidency member Denis Bećirović called on the head of the EU delegation, Luigi Sorreca, to preserve peace and to additionally reinforce EUFOR troops. His colleague from the Presidency announced in the media over the weekend that if Dodik starts secession, he will issue an order to the Armed Forces, but the response came immediately from Chairperson Željka Cvijanović that a consensus is needed for this. The associations of victims and witnesses of genocide, the Mothers of Srebrenica, who are accustomed to such announcements, are not upset, N1 writes.
