Separatist Terror of the Authorities of the Republika Srpska

Written by: Enver Halilović

The separatist terror of the authorities of the Republika Srpska is carried out and targets the state bodies of BiH, the Dayton Agreement, the Brčko District, the political opposition in the RS and the citizens of BiH, the state of BiH and international documents related to it...

Political terror is, as Jean Baudrillard would say, "the intelligence of Evil," "a reality that has become unreal due to too much positivity, which has become speculative due to too many simulations." (Jean Baudrillard, The Pact of Lucidity or the Intelligence of Evil, Arhipelag, Belgrade, 2009, p. 23.).

The political terror of the authorities of the RS is based on two illusions, on the "illusion of the real object," in this specific case the illusion of the power and right of the Bosnian Serbs and the Republika Srpska as a "state of the Serbian people in BiH," and on the "subjective illusion," the illusionist consciousness of the united leaders of the RS authorities about their power to make the illusion of the real object, of the RS, real. An illusion, generally, is "something that has no meaning or reason" for existence. This means that neither the illusion of the real object, of the RS, the illusion of the world, nor their subjective illusion, the cognitive illusion of the united leaders of the RS authorities about their power, about the state of BiH and about the RS, have any meaning or reason for existence. Their "subjective illusion" is part of the world, "but, in fact, of a world in deep illusion that is in no necessary relation with (their) knowledge."

The miracle of the subjective illusion of the politically united group of top officials of the RS authorities is that their "knowledge gives itself the privilege" of being the true reality and true knowledge. However, their image of their own power, the political and legal power of the RS, is a classic simulacrum, an intellectual, virtual fact and construction. Karl Marx would call the subjective illusion of Baudrillard, the "intelligence of Evil," a "false consciousness" about the real world, the world of reality. The authorities and institutions of the state of BiH are obliged to unmask the illusions of the united political group of leaders of the RS authorities about themselves, the state of BiH and the RS.

1. The Dayton Agreement upgraded the UZEPEO para-state RS into a legal entity of BiH. In post-Dayton Bosnia, the ideology of the Serbian united criminal enterprise of the 1990s has today taken the political form of Serbian secessionism and irredentism of the authorities of the multi-ethnic entity RS. Its goal is the creation of a "Nemanjić Serbian state" of the RS, as written in the preamble of the adopted draft Constitution of the RS at the NSRS (14/03/2025), on the territory of the sovereign state of BiH, with the right to enter into various forms of association with other states.

The bearers of Serbian secessionism and irredentism in the RS are the top officials of the RS authorities.

Through political action in deciding on legal issues, the highest bodies of all forms of government in the RS, legislative, executive, judicial, and single-person authorities, have acted politically united, as well as individually, to undermine the state of BiH, on the one hand, and to create the state of the RS, on the other hand.

a) The political group of top officials of the authorities of the Republika Srpska has been politically terrorizing the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Brčko District, the political opposition of the RS and all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina for many years by using or threatening to use illegal legal violence in shaping issues of the legal functioning of this administrative Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity and the state of BiH. Let me remind you of the definition, political terror is the use of political violence or the threat of illegal legal violence to achieve a political goal. The political goal of secessionism and irredentism of the RS authorities is secession from BiH, the realization of the political goal of the Republic of the Serbian people in BiH, a para-state creation of the united criminal enterprise, later called the RS.

b) In relation to BiH, the united political enterprise of the group of representative officials of the official authorities of the RS entity, Dodik, Višković, Stevandić, has committed at least two anti-state acts:

(1) separatist legal-political terror against state authorities by suspending the work of its legal institutions of BiH authority (SIPA, Court, Prosecutor's Office, HJPC BiH), on the administrative territory of the RS,

(2) it has jeopardized the territorial, legal and political autonomy of the Brčko District as a Bosnian-Herzegovinian condominium of the RS and the FBiH.

c) In relation to the international community, the united political enterprise of this group has violated and jeopardized two international documents on BiH, on the one hand, the Dayton Peace Agreement, and on the other hand, the international award of the Arbitral Tribunal for the Brčko District. In this way, this united group has violated and jeopardized international legal documents, one Treaty and one court decision.

Because of the foregoing, the Bosnian state authorities, as well as the international community, its authorities, are obliged and obligated, jointly and individually, politically and legally, to bring to justice the perpetrators of serious criminal acts, both against the sovereignty and integrity of BiH and the legal documents of the international community. They have violated not only the Constitution of BiH, but also an international treaty (the Dayton Agreement) and an international award of the Arbitral Tribunal for Brčko.

d) The political goal of the political terror of the united RS authorities is to ban the work of state authorities, the Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH and SIPA, in one state administrative area, the territory of the RS. This represents: (a) a direct violation of the Constitution of BiH and (b) a restriction of its legal and political, internationally recognized, sovereignty.

2. BiH has both its constitutional order and internationally recognized sovereignty and territorial integrity. The aforementioned decisions of the NSRS deconstruct both the legal order of BiH and the Brčko District and the sovereignty of their territorial integrity.

The political, legal and security situation jointly produced by the RS authorities, by passing regulations banning the work of the aforementioned state authorities on the territory of the RS, is a state of political terror against the constitutional order of BiH and its internationally recognized sovereignty over its entire territory.

The united RS authorities, at the mentioned session of the NSRS, consciously and deliberately caused a general state of fear among citizens throughout the territory of BiH of the outbreak of war. Aware of this, they verbalize anti-war demagoguery, for the sake of the international community, although they know that what they are doing leads directly to armed conflicts of various forms and intensity.

The political terror of the RS authorities is against the political interests of other ethnic communities of multi-ethnic Bosnia. Its content is the non-acceptance of the existence of the state of BiH in the constitutional-legal and political form in which it actually exists.

3. The political terror of the united RS authorities, throughout the entire post-Dayton period, took place and developed under the pretext of administrative autonomy, "the fight for the Dayton rights of the RS," on the one hand, and "the fight for the freedom of the Serbian people in BiH," for legitimate so-called ethno-national rights, the rights of peoples under the Dayton arrangement and international rights of peoples to self-determination, on the other hand.

In the thirty-year post-Dayton period of BiH, the RS had the broadest possible both administrative and ethno-political autonomy. It had complete administrative autonomy on all issues of culture, education, economy, infrastructure, information, etc. and, at the same time, the right to ethnic and administrative consensus in the decision-making of all state authorities.

The obligation to suppress and punish every type of political terror, including the political terror of the aforementioned RS authorities, is an essential obligation of state authorities and the international community to enable the democratic functioning of the legal authorities of the state of BiH throughout its entire territory.

4. After the decisions of the NSRS to ban the work of the aforementioned state authorities on the administrative territory of the RS, Bosnia and Herzegovina does not function as a sovereign state throughout its entire territory. In this way, in addition to the above, the legally prescribed sovereignty of the state of BiH is limited, as well as the obligations it has as a subject of the international community, its bodies and organizations. It is prevented from democratic, constitutionally established functioning, not only on its entire territory, but also from fulfilling its obligations towards the international community.

The RS authorities, unitedly, through the system of work and decision-making of the NSRS, have produced a legal and political situation of banning the work of legal state forms of BiH authority, violating its constitutional and internationally recognized sovereignty. The united political terror of the RS authorities has produced political instability on the territory of the entire BiH. This has created a very favorable space for terrorism, especially for "Serbian" armed terrorism, as a form of achieving its political goals. BiH has an international obligation to suppress every form of terrorism on its territory.

5. The Bosnian state bodies and institutions, Bosnian political parties, as well as the international community, the PIC, the UN High Representative for BiH and the EU, through their inadequate political and legal action, have enabled the policy of the authorities of the RS entity to reach this phase of direct irredentist implementation of the Serbian world, the Declaration of the SS, the adoption of a new constitution of the RS, the creation of a "Nemanjić state" on the territory of the sovereign state of BiH.
Political terror is always and everywhere directly proportional to political stability, including in BiH. The lower the level of political stability and democracy, the greater the preconditions for various forms and manifestations of political terrorism, and vice versa. Officials of the RS authorities have repeatedly claimed that "sovereignty belongs to the entities," not to BiH. According to them, BiH "was created by an agreement between the entities of the RS and the FBiH," which is contrary to all historical facts, but in idealism facts are not important.

The legal-political terror of the united RS authorities, its leaders, which, if physical victims arise from this situation, can be qualified as a politically united criminal group, in addition to: (a) disrupting the constitutional order of the state of BiH, (b) destroying the internationally recognized sovereignty of BiH, (c) jeopardizing the constitutional status of the Brčko District as a Bosnian-Herzegovinian condominium of the RS and the FBiH, (d) jeopardizing the award of the Arbitral Tribunal for the Brčko District, i.e., jeopardizing the international law on the basis of which the decision on the Brčko District was made.

6. The decisions of the NSRS in question, which politically unify the RS authorities according to its method of operation: the President of the RS, the Government of the RS, the National Assembly of the RS, have jeopardized: (a) the internationally prescribed and entered into the Constitution of BiH "autonomy of the district," (b) the multi-ethnic character of the Brčko District. These are its fundamental values of formation, functioning and survival.

It is completely evident that the decisions of the NSRS, which are discussed here, directly jeopardize both of the aforementioned values of the Brčko District that are internationally guaranteed and prescribed by the Constitution of BiH, because they leave unresolved the issue of their application to the administrative territory of the Brčko District. The political metaphysics of the unconstitutional decisions of the NSRS is that the Brčko District is an integral part of the RS, which directly threatens it.

Bosnian statehood is permanently threatened not only by Serbism, Serbian-Serbian ethnic separatism and irredentism of the RS, but also by the other two ethno-nationalisms, Croatian and Bosniak.

Bosnian-Herzegovinian, as well as international subjects of history, must be aware, if they want a peaceful and prosperous Bosnia, and that means a democratically organized state and society, they must replace the ethnic political organization of BiH authority, which administratively stimulates various forms of ethnic conflict, with a civic political organization of the state and society through the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.