Speaker of the Serbian Parliament Ana Brnabić stated today in Lebane that Republika Srpska was established to protect and save the Serb people in that area and that the Declaration on the Protection of National and Political Rights and the Joint Future of the Serb People, adopted at the All-Serb Assembly, calls for peace.
Brnabić made this statement at the opening of the Visitor Center at Caričin Grad in Lebane, in response to questions from journalists regarding comments made by Belgrade professor Ivan Videnović in an interview with Slobodna Bosna, where he stated that Republika Srpska is “a product of ethnic cleansing and genocide” and that, as such, it cannot exist, and that the Declaration adopted at the All-Serb Assembly is “an act of political aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
- “I have never heard anything more disgraceful than what this professor said. He directly compared the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which was the only one in the world to have concentration camps for children, where hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma perished, which was more brutal in its crimes than all other Nazi camps in Europe, with Republika Srpska,” Brnabić said.
She assessed that such a statement would not be possible anywhere else in the world.
- “This is a disgrace that I believe no one has seen before, and let it be on his conscience. How such people still survive as professors at our faculties is truly a paradoxical question for our faculties and our universities,” Brnabić questioned.
Brnabić emphasized that Republika Srpska is not a genocidal creation and added that it was established to prevent the repetition of the genocide against the Serb people that occurred during World War II, recalling the genocide in the village of Prebilovci near Čapljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She stated that everything in the 1990s indicated that this genocide would be repeated.
- “And for those who don’t believe me, they are free to visit Prebilovci. They wanted to kill every man, every woman, every elder, every grandmother, every unborn child, still in the mother’s womb. They wanted to kill everyone. But then, in 1991 and 1992, Croatian soldiers, the Croatian army, returned and mined the church in Prebilovci, where the remains, the bones of the Prebilovci martyrs from World War II, were,” Brnabić pointed out.
She stressed that Republika Srpska poses no threat to anyone.
- “Republika Srpska was established to protect and save the Serbian people. It has never posed a problem or a threat to anyone. The Declaration that was adopted calls for peace. Unlike that professor and Slobodna Bosna, who never speak of the sufferings of the Serbian people and the reasons for the establishment of Republika Srpska,” Brnabić said.
She added that Serbia and Republika Srpska respect the Dayton Agreement.
- “And how these people survive as professors at our faculties and what they teach our youth is a very concerning question for me,” Brnabić concluded.
Source: RTRS
