The international campaign in New York titled “Learn About Serb Suffering” is part of the broader effort by the Serbian people to present facts, not “our own version of the truth,” President Milorad Dodik said.
“It is a historical fact that Serbs were prevented from presenting their own suffering, or, whenever they managed to do so, others simply turned their heads away,” Dodik stated.
He added that the situation has changed, including in the United States, where the prevailing narrative today is the protection of Christian values around the world and the preservation of Christianity.
“In that environment, I believe this presentation will receive far greater attention than it would have during the administration of Joseph Biden, which could do nothing to help the Serbs,” Dodik said.
He further claimed that, at the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, “someone devised the false narrative that Serbs had killed 300,000 Muslims and raped 60,000 Muslim women.”
“Today everyone knows that was a lie,” Dodik said.
According to him, that atmosphere of what he described as falsehoods directed against the Serbian people created the conditions for the political agreement known as the Dayton Agreement, which, he argued, “was intended solely to draw the Serbs in.”
“Just as they brought us here and took us to Jasenovac, they signed the Dayton Agreement and then allowed time to destroy the Serbs in these lands. For us, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a tragic fate and cannot be our orientation. Our freedom is called Republika Srpska and Serbia, and we will continue to fight for that,” Dodik said.
He argued that it is impossible for those who seek to oppress the Serbs to be right while the Serbian people, who seek only their own freedom without any desire to oppress others, are wrong.
“That is simply impossible, whether logically, in real life, or from the standpoint of civilization,” Dodik added.
Dodik also referred to Judge Sena Uzunović, describing her as “a fundamentalist Muslim” who presided over his trial as President of Republika Srpska. He said that she had previously served as assistant legal officer to the commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Konjic at the time when Serbs were killed in Bradina.
“Under the law, she was obliged to prosecute and adjudicate that crime. Later she became a judge and acquitted those responsible, only for them to appear before the Hague Tribunal, which convicted them of that crime. That means Uzunović covered up those crimes,” Dodik said.
Recalling that he had been prosecuted for what he described as “not respecting a foreigner,” Dodik said that yielding to Christian Schmidt would have meant that “the Serbs who died on Kozara died in vain,” asking what kind of Serb, or native of the Kozara region, he would have been had he submitted to Schmidt.
“That is why I could not, at any moment, accept the falsehoods they were spreading,” Dodik said.
He concluded by saying that Republika Srpska is in a stronger position today than ever before.
“Today Republika Srpska has only one task: to remain united around the values embodied by Republika Srpska. I call on every citizen and every person in Republika Srpska to unite around Republika Srpska,” Dodik said.
The Memorial Center of Republika Srpska has launched the international campaign “Learn About Serbian Suffering” in downtown New York, marking the first time that the story of the suffering of the Serbian people has been presented in the United States.
Source: RTRS
