President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik declared at the commemoration of 30 years since the criminal Operation Storm that if this pogrom had not been publicly marked, it would have been repeated. He said he does not wish to forgive the Serb suffering, adding that the Krajina Serbs who survived give strength to the Serb people.
“You who survived the Golgotha, who are still alive and with us today, must know—there was little separating you from being buried alive. If we hadn’t started commemorating the Day of Suffering, it could have happened that no one would speak of you anymore,” Dodik said.
He recalled that on that day, thousands were killed and 250,000 Serbs were expelled from Croatia and the Krajina.
“Just a few months earlier, during Operation Flash, 125,000 were expelled from Slavonia. If it weren’t for Aleksandar Vučić, we probably wouldn’t be remembering today. What we do every year restores our human face. It affirms that the Serb people do not want to forget. And I do not want to forgive, even though our faith teaches us otherwise,” Dodik stressed.
He added that all these sufferings happened solely because they were Serbs.
“They wrote about us—how we should be removed. Later, in the Ustasha state, they promoted a policy to reduce us to a third. And they pursued that goal passionately, persistently. And those of us who remained in Croatia were denied everything—even the right to commemorate our suffering,” he stated.
Dodik emphasized that the official Croatian narrative is a lie.
“Their story is a lie. When I hear one of their descendants today say they believed Franjo Tuđman, I feel sorry—because they didn’t know that just five days earlier, on Brijuni, Tuđman had said: ‘Kill enough of them so they never recover.’ That was a planned operation, supported by the then U.S. administration of Bill Clinton and his allies, who handed this dirty job over to Croatian soldiers,” he said.
He stressed that the criminal operation ended in an exodus.
“That’s what the Americans wanted at the time, while selling us the story of ‘peacekeeping.’ After those wars ended, they tried to reduce us in Republika Srpska to that same ‘one-third’ they wanted to wipe out. The Serb people are not a third. We love Serbia—and we are tied to Serbia,” Dodik declared.
He emphasized that the dignity of the Serb people remains despite the suffering and that cynics cannot destroy their lives.
“Your holiness, we cannot live with those who constantly want to reduce and eliminate us, to expel us from Srpska. We must unite—Srpska wants to see a great and strong heroic Serbia,” Dodik concluded.
“We must survive, so there is no retreat. Every time we forgave crimes against us, it marked the beginning of a new crime. We must say what we want—take your so-called rule of law and go. Leave us in peace. We must stand firm and our people must consolidate around clear policies. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not my state—my states are Serbia and Republika Srpska. And I am not insulting anyone by saying that. Why does it bother you that I cheer for Serbia and not BiH? You want to expel us, yet you’ve given us nothing!” Dodik said.
Source: RTRS
