Dodik levels grave accusations at Mesić

RS PM Milorad Dodik says the beginning of Stjepan Mesić’s career was linked with the Ustasha ideology and that he “created no distance from that to this day”.

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RS PM Milorad Dodik says the beginning of Stjepan Mesic’s career was linked with the Ustasha ideology and that he “created no distance from that to this day”. Mesic, Croatia’s outgoing president, stirred spirits this week when he said he would militarily attack the Bosnian Serb entity (RS) in case of a “secession” referendum there. Dodik levels grave accusations at Mesic Ustashas (Ustase) were members of a Croat fascist movement, responsible for war crimes in the WW2 puppet Nazi so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH). In Banja Luka today, Dodik recalled that Mesic was the president of the wartime Croatian government in the 1990s, “that ethnically cleansed that country of its ethnic Serb population”, while in 1991, he spoke in Australia, and in the town of Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia, “to promote the Ustasha program dating back to the Second World War”. “It is well known how the Serbs from this region and Croatia faired with Ustashas in Jasenovac,” Dodik said, in reference to the NDH death camp on the banks of the Sava River. The RS premier went on to say that another statement, this time from Bosnian Croat politician and the chair of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, Zeljko Komsic, was “even more astonishing than that of Mesic when he spoke about using force”. Komsic today expressed his bewilderment at the furor over Mesic’s pronouncements, and told Belgrade daily Danas the following: “Stjepan Mesic’s statement is nothing new to me, and to many others in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a conversation more than two years ago, he said that if there really was a referendum on secession, he, as Croatia’s president, would in that case send in the army.” In Banja Luka, Dodik pointed out to the role Mesic had in the break-up of the former Yugoslavia (SFRJ), and accused him of being “the political architect of crimes in this region, [coming] from all sides”. As for Mesic’s comment that Dodik “reminded him of Slobodan Milosevic“, the RS prime minister retorted: “It was Mesic, not I, who had coffee with Milosevic“.

Dodik levels grave accusations at Mesić

Ustashas (Ustaše) were members of a Croat fascist movement, responsible for war crimes in the WW2 puppet Nazi so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH).

In Banja Luka today, Dodik recalled that Mesić was the president of the wartime Croatian government in the 1990s, “that ethnically cleansed that country of its ethnic Serb population”, while in 1991, he spoke in Australia, and in the town of Široki Brijeg in Bosnia, “to promote the Ustasha program dating back to the Second World War”.

“It is well known how the Serbs from this region and Croatia faired with Ustashas in Jasenovac,” Dodik said, in reference to the NDH death camp on the banks of the Sava River.

The RS premier went on to say that another statement, this time from Bosnian Croat politician and the chair of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, Željko Komšić, was “even more astonishing than that of Mesić when he spoke about using force”.

Komšić today expressed his bewilderment at the furor over Mesić’s pronouncements, and told Belgrade daily Danas the following:

“Stjepan Mesić’s statement is nothing new to me, and to many others in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a conversation more than two years ago, he said that if there really was a referendum on secession, he, as Croatia’s president, would in that case send in the army.”

In Banja Luka, Dodik pointed out to the role Mesić had in the break-up of the former Yugoslavia (SFRJ), and accused him of being “the political architect of crimes in this region, [coming] from all sides”.

As for Mesić’s comment that Dodik “reminded him of Slobodan Milošević“, the RS prime minister retorted: “It was Mesić, not I, who had coffee with Milošević“.

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