The leader of Bosnia’s Serb portion reiterated his threat to split up the Balkan country Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. The proposed U.N.
Bosnian Serb leader serving as the 8th President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik speaks during a joint press conference with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto during their meeting in the latter’s office in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The leader of Bosnia’s Serb territory reiterated his threat to secede from the Balkan country Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned U.N.
The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a debate on the resolution on Thursday morning to be followed by a vote in the 193-member world body. Serbs have the support of their allies Russia and China, while the resolution is supported by the U.S. and most other Western states.UN resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from SerbsDodik, who is president of Republika Srpska, which comprises about half of Bosnia, said on the social media platform X that the U.N.
The Srebrenica killings were the bloody culmination of the war, which came after the breakup of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalist passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country’s two other main ethnic populations, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks. Vucic and Dodik, both pro-Russian politicians, also have argued against the resolution by raising the possibility that it will open the door to having to pay war damages if it is adopted. Local analysts say Serb leaders, including Vucic, also fear they could be put on trial for active participation in the Bosnian bloodshed.
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