MP asks RS Parliament: Who killed David Dragicevic?

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The Party of Democratic Progress’ (PDP) delegate asked Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, ‘Who killed David Dragicevic?’, amid the RS Parliament session on the Commission for Srebrenica’s report from 2004 which said that some 20,000 Serbs took part in the Srebrenica genocide.

Adam Sukalo refused to take part in the special session, but he placed a sign over the chair he sits which said: “Who killed David Dragicevic?.”

The parents of the 21-year-old David Dragicevic whose lifeless body was found in March claimed their son was brutally murdered and that the police was protecting the perpetrators. This prompted mass protests in Banja Luka throughout April, where citizens demanded from authorities to unveil true circumstances of Dragicevic's death.

Milorad Dodik, the President of this Serb-dominated, semi-autonomous entity, requested a discussion on the Srebrenica Commission’s report, saying that every time historic decisions were made, there were various pressures from all sides, that were not benign by any account.

“The interest of the RS people must be our priority. Sometimes the people’s shoulders can’t cope with the injustice of the time. I don’t want a new historic injustice to strike our people,” Dodik said.

In 2004, the RS Government headed by Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic adopted the Commission for Srebrenica’s report. Mikerevic was invited to address the parliament as a direct participant in the events of 2004 and as a member of the RS Government’s Commission for investigation of the events in Srebrenica in the period July 10-19, 1995.

All the Bosniak MP’s opposed the session, stressing that genocide took place in Srebrenica and that the already established facts and judicial verdicts cannot be changed.

In April 1993 the UN had declared the besieged enclave of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe area under the UN protection. However, in July 1995 the Dutch battalion soldiers failed to prevent the town's capture by the Bosnian Serb forces and the massacre that followed.

More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in the genocide committed in the days after 11 July 1995 and so far the remains of more than 6,600 have been found and buried.