Bosnian Serb leader: Sarajevo is a Muslim city, just like Banja Luka is ours

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Sarajevo is a completely Muslim city, just like Banja Luka is ours, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said Thursday evening speaking to ATV about the US Resolution on 25 anniversary of the end of the Bosnian war and signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

“What does the Resolution mean for me? They can pass as many as they want. There was no aggression here as stated in the Resolution. Why are we aggressors here in Bosnia, where we were born? There was no aggression, and I’ll say it again – I am going to Sarajevo because I have to on behalf of Republika Srpska (RS) entity. This city (Sarajevo) is completely Muslim, just like Banja Luka is ours, and let's stop creating more illusions,” Dodik noted, adding that “the senator who proposed it is a known paid Bosniak lobbyist”.

US Congress passed a bipartisan Resolution on Monday, recognising the 25 anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement and condemning the human rights abuses that took place during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

The Resolution mentions that “ethnic cleansing and concentration camps were used as a tool of war against Bosnian Muslim men, women, and children, culminating in the July 1995 genocide at Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslim men and teenagers were detained and killed,” among other things.

Milorad Dodik who also serves as members of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency said that he is going to Brussels on Friday to say “international community’s interventionism has made Bosnia impossible.”

“I’ll say it to everyone I talk to. Bosnia is trapped with an illusion made by the international community and Bosniaks. Bosnia’s unable to reach a real political life where three constituent peoples should make decisions based on consensus but it must always take to some kind of imposition,” said the leader of the ruling party in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated RS entity, known for his secessionist rhetoric.

He reiterated that he only goes to Sarajevo to prevent the potential damage to the RS and Serb people.