A major delusion—that Bosnia and Herzegovina can be a Bosniak-Muslim state—was defeated in Strasbourg. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights confirmed what we have been saying for years: Bosnia and Herzegovina is neither “civic” nor “Bosnian,” but a complex state of three constituent peoples—Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks, stated the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik.
“The attempt to quietly erase the Serb and Croat peoples and create an artificial nation called ‘Bosnians’ has failed. That concept doesn’t exist in Dayton, it doesn’t exist in reality, and it doesn’t exist in the court in Strasbourg,” Dodik said in a post on social media platform X, commenting on the European Court of Human Rights’ decision to overturn the first-instance judgment in the case of Slaven Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dodik stated that a moment of reckoning awaits the Bosniak political elite—they have been left without mentors, without support, and without the policies that fed them illusions.
He emphasized that the era of unitarism is over, and that the time has come for dialogue, compromise, and mutual respect.
“Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to all of us—and it will never be anyone’s exclusive property. No more rulings on demand. There is Dayton. There is the Constitution. There is Republika Srpska,” Dodik concluded.
Source: RTRS
