The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, stated that January 7, 1993, was the saddest and bloodiest Christmas for the residents of Kravica and the entire Serb people—a tragedy that will forever remain etched in memory, while those responsible for the crime continue to walk free, absolved of any guilt.
- Continuing the campaign of ethnic cleansing and destruction of everything Serb in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Muslim forces from Srebrenica, with the help of units from Bratunac, Vlasenica, and Zvornik, invaded the village of Kravica near Bratunac while Serbs were celebrating their most joyous holiday—Christmas.
The hordes of evil and sowers of death showed no respect for Christmas, nor for innocent children, women, and the elderly. Nothing was sacred to them. They stormed homes, burned them, and killed indiscriminately all those gathered around holiday tables. On that bloody Christmas, 49 Serbs were killed, 80 civilians and soldiers were wounded, and seven went missing – Dodik said in a statement to Srna marking the anniversary of the massacre committed by Muslim soldiers led by Naser Orić 32 years ago.
President Dodik reminded that, as is often the case in Sarajevo’s unwritten laws of (in)justice, no one has been held accountable for these Serbian victims—or most Serbian victims during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- These people—children, women, and the elderly—were ‘guilty’ in the eyes of Muslim criminals and butcher Orić simply because they were named Nenad, Anđelko, Ratko, Đorđe, and Savka. What crime did these people commit? Their only ‘crime’ was being Serbs, Orthodox Christians, who refused to renounce their origin and faith—even though their ancestors suffered for the same reasons in a similar manner on Vidovdan in 1944 when Ustaše burned 38 Serbs alive, including a one-year-old girl named Jefa – emphasized Dodik.
The President recalled that after the bloodshed, Muslim killers marched through the devastated Serb village singing: “There is no priest to bless holy water; Naser came to Kravica on Christmas.” Dodik highlighted that this song embodies the brutality of the act—nearly 50 slaughtered and tortured Serbs.
However, according to Dodik, for foreigners, political Sarajevo, and so-called judiciary—better described as injustice—Serbian victims are irrelevant and considered less valuable. Serbian massacres are not worthy of their presence, a flower, or even a tear, while Muslim murderers freely roam Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Even that wasn’t enough for them. They would prefer to silence the surviving Serbs or, even better for them, expel us from our lands and finish what they started in the 20th century—ethnic cleansing of Serbs and the creation of a Muslim Bosnia and Herzegovina. But that will never happen. They must not think that we will forget or remain silent about the truth. We must not, and we will not, allow a situation where no one remains to confront them with the truth about the crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing committed against the Serb people in the 20th century—a century of suffering. But the 21st century will be a century of Serb unity and solidarity – Dodik declared.
He emphasized that they may imprison Serbs one by one in international and Muslim prisons, but they will never silence the Serb people, who have never remained silent or traded their faith for worldly gain.
- They have neither the moral nor any other right to lecture us, to re-educate us, or to evaluate our actions and every spoken word. The only thing they can do—though not for long—is fabricate political processes, judge us by their laws, and impose sanctions. But every evil has its beginning and its end, and so too will this protectorate and injustice. No matter how hard they try to silence one who speaks, hundreds more will rise to proclaim the truth even louder and with greater unity. Republika Srpska is eternal; it is our life, our present, and our future – concluded Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska.
Source: RTRS
