Photo: Miloš Milivojević/TanjugIn Banja Luka, RS Day was celebrated with dignitaries from Serbia and with the presence of Patriarch Porfiri, but without Aleksandar Vučić. Milorad Dodik spoke again about the right of Bosnian Serbs to self-determination
In the midst of the most serious political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the signing of the Dayton Agreement, Republika Srpska celebrated its 30th anniversary. Just four days after the United States imposed sanctions on him "due to corruption activities and threats to the stability of BiH", the Serbian member of the Bosnian Serb presidency Milorad Dodik he again expressed the already known views on the impossibility of the survival of BiH, attempts at "unitarization from Sarajevo and from the West" and "the necessity of returning the original competences to the Serbian entity",
Despite the fact that the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has repeatedly declared the celebration of the Day of Republika Srpska on January 9 unconstitutional, members of the RS police forces, emergency services workers, and representatives of public institutions paraded through the center of Banja Luka this year. This year, for the first time, the helicopters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Srpska flew over the parade.
The celebration began the day before, with the Ceremonial Academy and awarding of awards to deserving citizens and institutions. Although Milorad Dodik is a frequent guest of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić did not attend the celebration of the RS Day. Even the congratulation from Andrić's wreath was missing, even if it was a public one.
From Serbia, the RS Day celebration was attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, President of the Assembly and one of the awardees Ivica Dačić, Minister of Internal Affairs Aleksandar Vulin, Minister of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Director of the Security Information Agency (BIA) Bratislav Gašić, as well as the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Porfirija.
Milorad Dodik sees the future of RS primarily in strengthening its autonomy and affirming its rights. "If that doesn't happen, I believe that the generations to come will affirm our right to self-determination and that way we will be able to decide on our political future," said Dodik.
The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, said that the Republika Srpska prevented the extermination of the Serbian people in those areas and concluded that this entity was created by genocide, but that of the Serbs in the Second World War.
The celebration of the contested holiday outside the Serbs takes place in the light of the activities of Milorad Dodik on the transfer of competences from the federal to the entity level. At the same time, representatives of political parties from the RS have been blocking the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina for six months, after the former High Representative Valentin Incko amended the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and prohibited the denial of the genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995.
In several cities in the Republika Srpska, including Gacko, Foča, Prijedor, Brčko, singing and a torchlight ceremony were held in honor of the former wartime commander of the RS Army. Ratko Mladić who was convicted of war crimes.
On January 1992, 9, the then Assembly of the Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo adopted the Declaration on the Declaration of the Republic of the Serbian People as an independent entity, all with the aim of joining Yugoslavia, where the civil war had already begun. Radovan Karadžić, Biljana Plavšić and Momčilo Krajišnik, who were later convicted of war crimes, were at the head of the self-proclaimed Republic. Bosniak representatives see January XNUMX as the beginning of the war in Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide against the non-Serb population.
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