Dodik: Komšić is a symbol of March 1st

(Patria) - The Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, once again denied the Independence Day of BiH, stating that "March 1, 1992, was actually the first shot in BiH, and everything that followed was a consequence of the fact that an attempt was made to disenfranchise one of the three equal peoples in BiH".

"In this light, I also see today's statement by Željko Komšić, whose Memorial Center documents served to put his political agenda on the agenda as a reserve Bosniak member of the Presidency, in which he equates Serbs with Nazis, imposes collective guilt on them for individual crimes, seeks constitutional changes regarding Srebrenica, and further denies us the right to speak," said Dodik.

"Komšić is a symbol of that March 1st, because 26 years after the end of the war, he has been holding the position of the Croatian member of the Presidency through deception, without being elected by Croats. I think that Croats today also view that March 1st from a different perspective, because today they are experiencing what the Bosniaks primarily prepared for the Serbs on March 1st, 29 years ago," emphasized Dodik.

"Genocide papers" or "Transcripts of Genocide" represent a collection of searchable stenograms/transcripts of the sessions of the Assembly of the Serb People in BiH/National Assembly of Republika Srpska.

The documents have been known for a long time, but are difficult to access and not adapted for easy searching. Thanks to the MC Srebrenica – Potočari project, the documents will be available to universities, civil society organizations, researchers, journalists, and interested individuals who will be able to search the transcripts of the sessions.

Among them, they will be able to find the prelude to Mladić's bloody rampage in Srebrenica dating back to 1991, when Rajko Dukić openly spoke about the rebellion against the Dahijas.

On this day, BiH declared independence after its citizens made that decision through a referendum. At that time, the majority of citizens decided that the country should separate from the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and become independent.

The referendum question was: Are you for a sovereign and independent Bosnia and Herzegovina, a state of equal citizens, peoples of BiH – Muslims, Serbs, Croats, and members of other peoples living in it?

The referendum was held on February 29 and March 1, and 2,073,568 voters voted for independence. Of the total number of those who responded to the referendum – 99.7 percent were for independence, and 0.3 percent were against, reports N1.