All of Dodik's Denials of Genocide and Prosecutors' Inaction: Dangerous Acceptance of Reality Until the Final Secession of the RS!

Written by: Amina Čorbo-Zećo

It was long ago, on July 23, 2021, when the former High Representative in BiH, Valentin Inzko, made a decision amending the Criminal Law, according to which denial of genocide is a criminal offense.

The adopted amendments sanction the glorification of war criminals with final convictions, denial of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

Today, almost two full years later, we have not a single indictment, even though there have been hundreds of denials of the Srebrenica genocide.

From today's perspective, if foreigners tried to calm the boiling ethnic tensions with some tripartite agenda (ban on genocide denial for Bosniaks, state property for Serbs, Election Law for Croats), the effect is not visible.

At least when it comes to Bosniaks, because the ban on genocide denial is persistently ignored and no one is held responsible for it.

The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, headed by Milanko Kajganić, who came on the wings of the US Embassy, cannot find case law to prosecute perpetrators of this criminal offense. It cannot, because it will not!
After Inzko's decision, denial did not decrease; quite the opposite. Political representatives from the RS seem to have started competing over who will deny crimes and genocide more fiercely. They were joined by Croatian representatives, specifically the leaders of the HDZ, in glorifying convicted war criminals, so Sanja Vlaisavljević and Lidija Bradara rehabilitated Dario Kordić, who, by his own admission, 'would do it all again,' acknowledging 'that it was worth the prison time.'
The latest stab in the heart came in Konjic when Milorad Dodik cursed the genocide!

With silence in Konjic (with the exception of Kemal Ademović and Zukan Helez) after Dodik's vile curse, the leaders of the Troika stabbed victims and all civilized people in the back.

Dodik is apparently no longer interested only in denying verdicts, crimes, and genocide as he once did; now he throws down the gauntlet to Kajganić with his curse of genocide, but also to the Troika – testing the limits of their endurance!

Comparing Dodik's current rhetoric with that of a few months ago, it can be said that on February 21, 2023, Dodik in Banja Luka was 'civilized':

"There (in Srebrenica) no genocide happened, we all know that here in the Republic of Srpska."

But there was no reaction from the Prosecutor's Office, just as before when he denied the Srebrenica genocide, claiming that a crime had occurred there.

"The political qualification of genocide cannot be used for what happened there."

And after the news of Radoslav Brđanin's death, Dodik on Twitter praised his merits and called this convict a patriot, stating that he would "remain inscribed in special letters in the history of the Serbian people."
According to the Hate Mapping database, Dodik denied the crime seven times, either by downplaying the qualification of genocide or relativizing it, and glorified a Hague convict.

Thus, in one address in front of the BiH Presidency, commenting on the amendments to the BiH Criminal Law banning the denial of genocide in BiH and all other war crimes, as well as the glorification of those convicted of war crimes, he said he thinks about Srebrenica the same as before.

And even after the Prosecutor's Office itself initiates a case, as they did yesterday regarding the abolition of the Constitutional Court of BiH in the RS, it is clear that BiH is increasingly entering a frozen conflict and that such a state suits the foreign factor supporting Kajganić, as well as Halil Lagumdžija at the head of the HJPC, who supports the fact that we have not a single indictment for denial of genocide.

And when they are unable to prosecute denial of genocide, then we should not be surprised that Dodik says of Bosnia and Herzegovina that it is 'a great trouble and regression.'

"The existence of BiH ignores that in today's world, Christian and Muslim populations cannot live harmoniously anywhere. Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms this fact that the Muslim and Christian communities cannot live together," he said on September 14, 2022.

After the vile rhetorical messages from the Republic of Srpska, that comes as balm to the ears!

And perhaps that is the goal, that even the pro-Bosnian option comes to terms with the fact that Muslims and Christians cannot live together, and that we part ways peacefully!

For that to happen, Bosniaks must be stripped of their political rights. The HDZ BiH is doing that successfully, and the Republic of Srpska within its invisible borders certainly has its own rules and laws, and not a single state institution is doing anything concrete to prevent secession, which, due to their inaction, will come as a natural state in a frozen conflict!

Accepting a reality in which it is normal for criminal offenses not to be prosecuted, for someone to curse genocide and nullify you as a political people, is a step towards accepting the secession of the RS, because even then someone will tell us - just as long as there is no shooting!