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Republika Srpska is one of the two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was established in 1992 at the beginning of the Bosnian War. The Three Years’ War, which killed more than 100,000, saw a majority of Croats and Bosniaks expelled from the republic’s claimed territory. It gained international recognition as an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina after the 1995 Dayton Agreement.
The Republika Srpska complains that they are marginalized by Bosniaks and has started calling for its own affairs and raising its own army.
Politician Vojin Pavlovic claimed that the legacy of the Bosnian war was the establishment and expansion of the Republika Srpska.
He was quoted in a report reporting a genocide of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, led by Ratko Mladić.
Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in November 2017.
However, Mr Pavlovic described the genocide as simply a “crime” and said grimly: “I believe that Ratko Mladic is a hero and that he is not guilty of what he was accused and convicted of. There was no genocide in Srebrenica.”
The Republika Srpska complains that they are marginalized by Bosniaks and has started calling for its own affairs and raising its own army.
Politician Vojin Pavlovic claimed that the legacy of the Bosnian war was the establishment and expansion of the Republika Srpska.
He was quoted in a report reporting a genocide of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, led by Ratko Mladić.
Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in November 2017.
However, Mr Pavlovic described the genocide as simply a “crime” and said grimly: “I believe that Ratko Mladic is a hero and that he is not guilty of what he was accused and convicted of. There was no genocide in Srebrenica.”
The Serbian state of Bosnia and Herzegovina lashes out at Muslims and supports Vladimir Putin (Image: GETTY)
Republika Srpska politicians complain they are marginalized by Bosniaks (Image: GETTY)
Vojin Pavlovic dismissed the Srebrenica genocide as just a ‘crime’ (Image: GETTY)
Mr Pavlovic then told Sky News: “There will be no peace in this area as long as the international community represents, defends and protects only one side. That one side is the side of Muslims.”
Ljubisa Cosic, mayor of East Sarajevo, also told Sky News: “The dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina will happen if this state continues like this.
“The Bosniaks always try to have a centralized state. They want more and more. That is not possible. We’ve had a war because of that.’
He added: “Personally, I like Russians more than Americans.
“We have a very, very strong historical relationship with the Russians and we believe in Russia.”
Mr Pavlovic added: “NATO is a criminal organization, which can only be compared to the Third Reich as a fascist organization.”
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Ljubisa Cosic said: ‘Bosnians always try to have a centralized state… It’s not possible’ (Image: GETTY)
In July, Andi Hoxhaj, a European Union law fellow, University of Warwick, wrote for The Conversation that Russia’s influence in the Balkans is “growing just as the fragile peace in the region is threatened”.
He noted that Moscow has “long been an influential force in the Western Balkans”, citing Russian companies acquiring a controlling stake in energy companies in the Balkans.
According to a 2019 report called “Russia’s Toolkit in the Balkans,” Russia’s energy investments in Bosnia are channeled through Republika Srpska, and Moscow is the fifth largest investor in Bosnia.
Referring to Bosnia’s three-member presidency based on ethnic groups, Hoxhaj added that Serbian President Milorad Dodik has plans to create a new Serbian army, and is joining a separatist movement that is calling the Republika Srpska the could declare independence.
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Milorad Dodik plans to create a new Serbian army and joins a separatist movement (Image: GETTY)
Pavlovic said ‘there will be no peace’ because the West is ‘the side of Muslims’ (Image: GETTY)
Mr Hoxhaj also warned that the EU is focusing on Ukraine and that delaying accession to the Balkan countries could leave them vulnerable.
Bosnia and Herzegovina applied for EU membership in February 2016, after being identified as a potential candidate for EU membership at the Thessaloniki European Council in June 2003.
Mr Hoxhaj said: “Analysts are concerned that Dodik’s move could threaten the uneasy peace that emerged after the Balkan War, which ended in 1999.
“But despite this, EU officials did not even participate in the press conference scheduled with the leaders of the Western Balkans after the recent two-day summit between the two groups.
“The most obvious explanation for the deadlock is that another priority always takes precedence – currently Ukraine. But this approach has been frowned upon, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia.
“The EU is creating even more resentment by approaching Ukraine differently than has been mapped out for the Western Balkans.”
A 2019 report said Russia’s Bosnian energy is being channeled through Republika Srpska (Image: GETTY)
According to the 2013 census of the Institute of Statistics of the Republika Srpska, Serbs, who are predominantly Orthodox Christians, made up 83 percent of the Republika Srpska population at 970,857, compared to just 148,477 or 12.7 percent Bosniaks.
By comparison, data from the 2013 census published by the Statistical Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina shows that Bosniaks, predominantly Muslim, make up 50.11 percent of the population.
Croats, predominantly Catholic, make up 2.3 percent of Republika Srpska and 15.4 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It comes as a vehicle accompanying Željka Cvijanović, the president of Republika Srpska, was attacked, according to reports.
According to the police report, the attack took place on the M-17 highway in Bisce Polje, in which an unknown person with a Hyundai vehicle blocked the road and ripped off the flashing light from the service vehicle, then threw it out of the car. way.