The Director of the Center for Socio-Political Research of Republika Srpska, Dušan Pavlović, stated that eighty years after the genocide against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the self-liberation of the remaining inmates of Jasenovac, the same goal—the eradication of the Serb name, voice, and rights west of the Drina River—is being pursued once again, but through different means.
“History does not begin anew, but it often repeats when it is forgotten,” Pavlović emphasized.
He pointed out that today, although there are no burning camps, the institutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina is burning.
“What started in the NDH with Serbophobia, dehumanization, and political disenfranchisement—and was executed through bullets, knives, forced exile, and assimilation—is today continued through indictments, imposed laws, and the Serbophobic and dehumanizing public discourse of Schmidt’s political Sarajevo toward Republika Srpska as the institutional framework of the Serb constituent people,” Pavlović stated in an op-ed for Srna.
He recalled that a similar pattern unfolded in 1991/92.
“At that time, Serbs in Muslim political Sarajevo were declared terrorists and secessionists merely for belonging to or supporting Serb representatives in the institutions of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the criminalization and dehumanization of Serb political representatives, a hunting season on Serbs was opened—just as it was in the NDH. Overnight,” Pavlović said.
He emphasized that he remembers this very well and will not forget—and those who have forgotten should educate themselves at the sacred cyber memorial, where every word is based on the testimony of surviving victims and witnesses.
Republika Srpska – the only remaining collective resistance to the genocidal intent of 1941
Pavlović stressed that Republika Srpska—the institutional response to genocide—was not born from ideological ambition but from the necessity to survive.
“Its Constitution, political system, and cultural reaffirmation of a medieval geopolitical identity represent the only remaining form of collective resistance to the genocidal intent of 1941. And that is exactly why Republika Srpska is being targeted,” Pavlović noted.
Just as in the NDH era, the beginning of genocide was announced through Serbophobia, dehumanization, and the legal exclusion of Serbs from the state, Pavlović says that today the same pattern is repeating—in attacks on the constitutionality of Republika Srpska within the international, Dayton-established framework of BiH, on its institutions and representatives, and on the very right of the Serb people to exist as a political entity and cultural identity.
“Today, Serbophobia manifests through the denial of Republika Srpska, its Constitution, and the Serb people’s constitutional status. Dehumanization reappears through the weaponization of the judiciary at the BiH level—through legal persecution of the Constitution, institutions, and elected representatives of Republika Srpska. SIPA representatives, through attempts to issue arrest warrants against Serb officials, are providing material for media controlled by pan-Islamist structures linked to the ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’ pushing the narrative that Serbs are once again terrorists attacking their (sharia) homeland,” Pavlović emphasized.
According to him, a new hunting season on Serbs, their constitutionality, and their institutional guarantor—Republika Srpska—seems inevitable once again.
“Through judicial processes, indictments, and verdicts targeting the Constitution and institutions of Republika Srpska, the ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’ together with their German allies, have opened the door for the creation of a sharia state in Europe,” Pavlović warned.
Germany, through Schmidt, is trying to complete what it failed to achieve militarily
Pavlović pointed out that Schmidt’s Sarajevo, with the support of German diplomacy, no longer hides its goals, and that Germany—having never acknowledged its complicity and direct responsibility for the genocide against Serbs in the NDH—today attempts, through its bureaucrat Christian Schmidt, to politically complete what it failed to achieve militarily.
“By dismantling the constitutional position of Republika Srpska, they are attacking not just its institutions, but the very right of Serbs to exist collectively,” Pavlović underlined.
He emphasized that abolishing the Serb people’s constitutional status is not a technical matter—it is a denial of existence, and by all definitions, it is a step toward another genocide.
“Every phase of genocide begins with the denial of human dignity. First, Serbs are portrayed as disruptors, as ‘enemies of the state,’ ‘secessionists,’ and ‘criminals.’ Then their rights are suspended, their constitutions ignored, and their institutions criminalized. We are seeing this today in the behavior of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which prosecutes Republika Srpska’s leaders for defending the Constitution of Srpska and the Dayton Agreement,” Pavlović said.
He pointed out that this is not a judicial process—it is a symbolic humiliation of an entire people and a demonstration of power over their political integrity.
“It is notable how the politicians of a reunited Germany—with a passion and vindictiveness they seemingly cannot resist—first dismantled the results of the Treaty of Versailles by destroying Czechoslovakia and then Yugoslavia. It seems today’s globalist German politicians are attacking the Dayton order, which is vital for the stability of Southeast Europe, with the same passion. As if Germany has an existential misunderstanding with international law and order,” Pavlović observed.
Serbophobia is no longer in camps—it is now in the media, prosecution offices, and diplomatic salons
Pavlović stated that political Sarajevo, influenced by the ideological heirs of the “Muslim Brotherhood,” is building a unitary and Islamized Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that Republika Srpska is the primary obstacle to that project, which is why it must be portrayed as illegitimate and anti-European.
“Today, Serbophobia and dehumanization are no longer found in camps like in the NDH or Muslim Sarajevo during the 1990s—they are found in the media, in prosecutor’s offices, and in diplomatic salons. They have their spokespersons, their indictments and verdicts, and even their own laws, published on the personal blogs of German bureaucrats. They also have their silence—especially regarding the genocide against Serbs in the NDH and the unbroken ideological dreams that stem from it,” Pavlović stressed.
Serbs who survived the genocide in the NDH had only memory and prayer—today they have Republika Srpska as well
Pavlović highlighted that those who survived the genocide against Serbs in the NDH were left only with memory and prayer—whereas today, Serbs have memory, prayer, and Republika Srpska.
He warned that the potential destruction of Republika Srpska would not only be a constitutional violation—it would represent the continuation of the project that began in 1941.
“It would be a defeat for law, for truth, for memory, for life, and for civilization. That is why some Serbs today remember and dream of Blagoje Jovović, while others dream of the German bureaucrat Schmidt. If the latter realize their dream, both groups will eventually dream once again of Diana Budisavljević,” Pavlović concluded.
Source: RTRS
