Republika Srpska will never mark the so-called Independence Day of BiH, because the celebration of March 1—when a Serb wedding guest was brutally killed at Sarajevo’s Baščaršija—shows the complete senselessness of BiH as it exists today, said Slobodan Župljanin, president of the Organization of Officers of the Army of Republika Srpska.
Župljanin said that the Federation of BiH (FBiH) is the only place in the world that celebrates death—death at a wedding celebration—and that, even more devastatingly, it still receives congratulations for this from some Western diplomats.
He noted that March 1, 1992, is for Serbs a signpost showing where they would have ended up had it not been for January 9 and February 28 of the same year, and for the unbreakable will of the Serb people never to allow anyone else to decide in their place.
Župljanin stressed that the Serb people remember March 1, 1992, only for evil, and that on this day all Serbs in Republika Srpska empathize with the innocently killed Serb wedding guest, Nikola Gardović.
He pointed out that it is well known that a law on holidays has never been adopted at the BiH level, and that such a holiday, which is marked in the FBiH, does not exist either in reality or legally.
Župljanin stated that March 1, 1992, was also the second day of the illegitimate referendum on BiH independence, organized against the will and in opposition to the Serb people.
He noted that the Serb people had previously, through a plebiscite, already declared themselves in favor of remaining in the common state of Yugoslavia, and that in BiH—then still a Yugoslav republic—the overall atmosphere was on the brink of overheating and rupture.
“The Assembly of the SR BiH, in which the SDA held the most mandates, on the same day proclaimed independence based on the results of a referendum in which Serbs did not participate. This was the key trigger and the prelude to the bloody war in BiH. That is why Republika Srpska will never celebrate the so-called Independence Day of BiH,” the Organization of Officers of the Army of Republika Srpska said in a statement.
In parts of the FBiH with a Bosniak majority, March 1 is marked as the so-called Independence Day of BiH, because an illegal referendum on independence and secession of BiH from the SFRY was held 32 years ago on that date. Serbs in Republika Srpska remember March 1 for the killing of a Serb wedding guest in Sarajevo, which was also the trigger for the outbreak of war.
This tragic date is not celebrated in Republika Srpska; instead, November 21 is observed—the day when the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH was initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton in the United States, marking the end of the civil war in BiH.
Source: RTRS
