"If we're forced out - we're taking RS with us" - Dodik

"If we're forced out - we're taking RS with us" - Dodik

Speaking at a ceremony marking 73 years since the WW2 Battle of Kozara Dodik stressed that Bosniaks (Muslims), Croats and Serbs live in Bosnia-Herzegovina today, " just like they did in the former Yugoslavia," and wondered “how it is possible there is no big Yugoslavia but there is the small Yugoslavia, since many say that Bosnia is indeed is ‘a small scale Yugoslavia’.”

“If you want Bosnia, get back to what was written in the Dayton (peace accords). Stop your backroom dealings here. You cannot take the RS away from us... if you push us out, we will leave along with our republic, you will not force us out individually. You did not show us you want to live with us. You wish to place the label of genocide on children that are yet to be born," Dodik said.

According to him, the British resolution is an attempt to "whitewash their own conscience" whileSerbia and the RS "spoke with one voice on that issue today."

Dodik thanked President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic "for unity and support."

"Of course we are pleasing with Russia to veto (the resolution), because that goes in the direction of truth," he noted.

Addressing another commemoration over the weekend - that in Bratunac, for the Serb victims of the 1992-95 war in the Drina valley - Dodik said that Muslim forces were "continuously committing crimes against Serbs in the territory of the towns of Srebrenica and Bratunac but nobody has been held accountable."

“The crime against Serbs took a longer while, while the crime against Bosniaks (in Srebrenica) took place in a short time. What is the difference?” Dodik asked during the ceremony to mark 23 years since the crimes against local Serbs perpetrated by members of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

"The only difference is that one of the crimes - the one committed against Bosniaks – is recognized, while nobody takes heed of the killings of Serb women and children," the RS president said and added that "the problem is in the international community using political violence to pass the crime in Srebrenica as a crime of genocide, while pinning the collective blame on the Serbs."

Dodik said that all talk about the crime in Srebrenica was “one continuous lie” and that there was no evidence to prove that 8,300 Bosniaks were killed there, and asked "what was going to be done concerning the 3,500 killed Serbs."

"Now we are being served a resolution (on Srebrenica) aimed at making the Serbs the only people branded in UN documents as genocidal nation," Dodik said, stressing that it was unacceptable and countered the efforts towards reconciliation among the peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina.