A LIE CANNOT BECOME TRUTH Dodik is once again using falsehoods about the 'expulsion' of Bosnian Serbs from Sarajevo!

(Patria= - The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its capital city in the period 1992-1995 is once again being distorted and relativized by twisting history, historical and legally established facts, states the reaction of the Director of the Public Institution "Memorial Fund of Sarajevo Canton", Ahmed Kulanić, on the occasion of the statements by the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, in which he denies genocide again.

"A repeated lie cannot become the truth, no matter how long or often it is repeated. The President of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity RS, Milorad Dodik, is once again, in public discourse, using falsehoods about the expulsion of Bosnian Serbs from Sarajevo. The call for them to leave their pre-war homes was issued by your predecessors, Mr. Dodik, who sought to further populate the territories of RS with them precisely through the forced migration of their own ethnic group. Mr. Dodik should also recall the 56th session of the National Assembly of RS, held in Pale (Jahorina) on December 17, 1995, where, as an independent representative, he participated in the Assembly's work and attended discussions about the forced migration and emigration of the population, when both Momčilo Krajišnik and Dragan Đurić spoke about the emigration and the plan to emigrate Serbs from Sarajevo: "...

Therefore, we also need time for a political solution and a final separation, and ultimately the best solution is for Sarajevo to be depopulated and for a location to be found to settle the people, and for us to finally break free from this tie if we have dangers with it" - said Krajišnik, while Đurić further explained "...We now have a chance, given how things are, to finally draw a line with the Turks. The Americans are giving us a chance to prove that we cannot live together and that the Serbian people do not want to live, given that, it is no secret, we are slowly moving out the economy. We need to organize the emigration of the population, massively, I don't know.

I didn't say with bags, but to show that we cannot live together. Let's populate the areas, let's populate the areas from Trebinje to Mrkonjić so that the Turks have nowhere to return, and our people do not intend to return there, and truly prove that we cannot live. We are now proposing that the Serbian people, we are moving out the factories, and the Serbian people should stay and prove that a multi-ethnic Bosnia is possible."

The aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a legally established fact, read any case against the military-political leadership of RS and/or Serbia, especially the latest verdict in the Simatović and Stanišić cases. They all united against Bosnia and its independence, for which they were sentenced in The Hague alone to over 4000 years and seven life sentences.

Furthermore, if you look into the archives of the RS and VRS institutions, you will find numerous documents and orders regarding the forced, systematically organized, and prepared migration of their own people and companies, some of which you can see in the attached documents.

Sarajevo was and certainly is the European Jerusalem, but it is also a city of heroes whose civilians were terrorized, targeted, and killed for 1425 days, while at the same time these same civilians defended and protected the Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo, as well as the Cathedral Orthodox Church. During that time, under the command of the VRS and the political leadership of the nineties, you destroyed our Banja Luka (and numerous other cities in eastern and northeastern Bosnia), erasing their history stone by stone, monument by monument, mosque by mosque - systematically, planned, and with premeditation.

That process and plan of erasing history, expelling and killing innocent citizens of Banja Luka, Foča, Zvornik, Prijedor, Srebrenica - mostly all Bosniaks, your hero, and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić, at a session of the Assembly of the Serb People in BiH, as early as May 12, 1992, in Banja Luka, called genocide:

"Therefore, we cannot cleanse or have a sieve to sift only so that Serbs remain or Serbs perish, and others leave. Well, that, that won't, I don't know how Mr. Krajišnik and Mr. Karadžić will explain it to the world. That, people, is genocide. We must invite every person who has kissed these lands with their forehead and the territory of the state we want to create. And their place is with us and beside us."

Truth and facts are sometimes difficult to accept, but healing and history teach us that it is the only correct path. Every myth and the creation of a mythological narrative devalues one's own people and their history and places a stigma on an entire nation due to the decisions and actions of individuals "in the name of" the people," states Kulanić.