President Milorad Dodik stated that he was judged by a system in which the judiciary had become a tool of politics — a system driven by ideology rather than law — but emphasized that his place will always be where the Republic of Srpska is defended, regardless of the cost.
In his column for Politika, Dodik described the proceedings against him as a political performance and a brutal misuse of the judiciary, aimed at discrediting, intimidating, and, if possible, eliminating the President of Republika Srpska.
“When I entered the building of the Court of BiH, built on the site of a camp for Sarajevo Serbs, I knew it wasn’t a trial — it was revenge. They couldn’t put a million Serbs in the courtroom, so they put me,” wrote Dodik, calling the presiding judge an executor, not a judge, claiming that behind the verdict stood hatred, not legal reasoning.
He linked his judge, Sena Uzunović, to what he described as the continuity of a wartime mentality, recalling that she served as a military judge in 1993 in Konjic — where, according to him, a Serb family named Golubović was executed without justice ever being served.
“I saved Bosniak and Croat families in Gradiška. And that woman judges me today — the President of Republika Srpska — though by right and morality, I should be the one judging her,” Dodik wrote.
He stressed that Republika Srpska was created to ensure such injustices never happen again and that the current process was meant to punish Srpska itself, not him personally.
Dodik added that his message is not one of hatred, underlining respect for Bosniaks who “still know the value of truth and justice,” contrasting them with, as he put it, those “who never ended the war and still judge in the name of ideology, not law.”
He asserted that Bosnia and Herzegovina can only exist if the equality of its three constituent peoples and two entities is respected, warning that attempts to build a unitary “civic” BiH threaten peace.
“Republika Srpska was born from sacrifice and the right to self-determination. When I stood before the court to defend the Constitution and laws of the country I lead, I had no dilemma — my place is where Srpska is defended,” Dodik emphasized.
He concluded that the trial against him mirrors global patterns of politically motivated prosecutions seen elsewhere — against Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and others — and that in his case, it was part of a local attempt “to send Srpska the message that its institutions exist only with Sarajevo’s and Western approval.”
“In the next column,” he announced, “I will explain how justice was turned into a weapon and the court into an instrument of politics — and how, despite everything, the Republika Srpska has not fallen before the pressures of Schmidt, Sarajevo, or their mentors, because what was created in blood is defended by truth.”
Source: RTRS
