Dodik convinced "genocide was committed against Serbs"

Dodik convinced "genocide was committed against Serbs"

BELGRADE -- RS President Milorad Dodik stated on Tuesday that genocide was committed against Serbs in Croatia during the 1990s.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina added the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "leaves a sense of injustice because of was done to Serbs."

Dodik was in Belgrade on Tuesday where he, together with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, watched the broadcast from The Hague, where the court rejected both the Croatian lawsuit and Serbia's counter claim.

Dodik underscored that there were "historical, population, property and other facts that indicate that genocide was committed against Serbs in Croatia," and noted that Serbs disappeared from a large area we now know as the Republic of Croatia.

He recalled that a legal procedure for the genocide committed against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in World War II was never carried out and that the Ustasha regime murdered a large number of Serbs in the Jasenovac death camp, while were expelled from entire areas what is today the RS and Croatia, "in order to execute a nation."

Dodik said that the RS government will respect the ICJ judgment, but that "a sense of a crime and injustice done to Serbs, as those who suffered the most in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the process of disintegration of former joint state, still remains."

According to him, it would be positive for the ICJ ruling to serve as an incentive to better cooperation between Serbs and Croats "so that they would finally leave behind historical conflicts and so that everyone would do what they can to move forward."

Dodik noted...