At the grand public rally “Srpska Calls You,” held in Banja Luka’s Krajina Square, a clear message was sent: the Serb people are not genocidal, Republika Srpska will not be humiliated, and the Serb people will not give up Republika Srpska. This rally was a response to the Srebrenica resolution that will be discussed in the United Nations General Assembly in May. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska reported that the event, attended by nearly 50,000 people from all over Republika Srpska and Serbia, proceeded peacefully without any incidents.
Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, stated at the rally that the Serbian people cannot coexist in the same country with those who try to label them as genocidal.
He highlighted that the crimes against 3,500 Serbs from the Srebrenica region are neither mentioned nor noticed by anyone other than the Serbian people themselves, and these are unpunished crimes, while there are attempts to declare them a genocidal people. President Dodik called on the Bosniaks, if they want a shared life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to withdraw the Srebrenica resolution.
Dodik emphasized that Republika Srpska is not about spite but about freedom, for which enormous sacrifices were made by ancestors, and which he has no right to betray. He mentioned that Republika Srpska has countless friends worldwide who understand the situation faced by the Serb people.
Powerful world figures can take everything from us, but they cannot take two things: our pride and the memory of our loved ones, said Brano Vučetić from Bjelovac near Bratunac, whose entire family was killed during the war within three months. In his speech, which he described not as a speech but as a cry from the depths of a soul that has been crying out for justice for three generations, Vučetić emphasized that the powerful can adopt whatever they want, but that cannot humiliate the Serb people.
Preserving the memory of Serb suffering is a sacred duty, emphasized Branimir Kojić, president of the Republican Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Fighters and Missing Civilians, in his address.
Source: RTRS
