“The narrative of genocide and ethnic cleansing that is supposed to show that in Bosnia and Herzegovina there is only one nation that is a victim and that based on this it has greater rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, makes no sense,” said Radovan Kovačević, a delegate in the Club of Serbs of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to RTRS.
Responding to the statement by the head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Kavazović, that “Bosniaks must have guarantees that genocide will not be repeated against them,” Kovačević highlighted that in 1991, according to the census, over 550,000 Serbs lived in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and today there are not even 30,000.
“This clearly shows us that the nation which has experienced the largest ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina is definitively the Serbian people. Whenever we talk about genocide in this region, one can never forget the genocide committed against the Serbian people during World War II by the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), i.e., our Croatian neighbors and the Muslims at that time,” Kovačević pointed out.
He also emphasized that one must never forget the genocide committed in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina at Donja Gradina, nor Prebilovci, Drakulić near Banja Luka.
“Therefore, whenever we talk about genocide, crimes, and ethnic cleansing, one must not forget that all nations suffered in this region, but definitively the Serbian people suffered the most,” Kovačević stated.
Source: RTRS
