Dodik: Genocide against Serbs committed in Croatia

BELGRADE - Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik stated on Tuesday that genocide was committed against Serbs in Croatia in the '90s and that the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) leaves a sense of injustice for what was done to Serbs.

Together with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Dodik followed the TV streaming of the pronouncement of the ruling whereby ICJ dropped the genocide suit filed by Croatia and the counter-suit by Serbia for the crime committed in Croatia during the war in the period from 1991-1995.

Addressing the public following the ICJ session, Dodik underscored that there are 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 the procedure for genocide committed against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia in World War II was never carried out and that Ustashas murdered a large number of Serbs in the prison camp Jasenovac, and people were banished from entire areas in today's RS and Croatia so as to execute one (Serb) nation.

Dodik said that the RS government will respect the ICJ ruling passed in The Hague, but the sense of a crime and injustice done to Serbs, as the greatest sufferers 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.

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