Russian television channel NTV.RU featured a segment on the Dayton Peace Agreement in its news program, including commentary from Republika Srpska Minister of Internal Affairs Siniša Karan, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandar Bocan-Kharchenko, and Professor of Constitutional Law Radomir Lukić from the Faculty of Law in East Sarajevo.
- “Where Serbs remained outside the territory of Republika Srpska, they lost their freedom and became second-class citizens,” said Karan in the NTV.RU report.
The media highlighted that, following Dayton, Serbs were quickly and ruthlessly expelled from their lands.
- “It was classic ethnic cleansing. People took everything they could carry, including the remains of their deceased relatives from Serbian cemeteries,” the report stated.
Bocan-Kharchenko, who was part of the Russian delegation in the Contact Group during the signing of the Dayton Agreement in 1995, provided his perspective.
- “The Western idea was to weaken Republika Srpska through this agreement and implement a policy of centralization in BiH, ultimately abolishing the entities,” Bocan-Kharchenko added.
He described the Dayton Agreement as an illustration of Western concepts of “peace through strength” and “agreements under duress.”
Professor Lukić emphasized the distrust towards the West:
- “They cannot be trusted because they operate in a way where they first sign an agreement and then do what they consider necessary through economic, political, or other pressures. For decades, they have been exerting pressure on us,” Lukić stated.
You can watch the entire show here.
Source: RTRS
