The Vice President of the Bosniak entity of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ćamil Duraković, said tonight that RS President Milorad Dodik "perpetrated a coup d'état" by signing a decree banning the activities of the Court and Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the BiH Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on the territory of that entity.
"The Republika Srpska entity has de facto seceded. This is a direct return of our security from Srebrenica, Bratunac and other parts of eastern Bosnia, Krajina, Posavina and Semberija to the hands of the RS Ministry of Interior," Duraković said, as reported by Sarajevo media.
He added that "anyone who does not see this as an existential threat is blind."
"The people returned with a guarantee that the central government of BiH would take care of our security, and today Milorad Dodik simply returned us to the hands of Ljubomir Borovčanin," the wartime commander of the RS Special Police convicted of war crimes in Srebrenica, concluded Duraković.
Dodik signed decrees this evening on the promulgation of the law banning the activities of the Court and Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the Investigation and Protection Agency of BiH (SIPA), and the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH (HJPC) on the territory of the Republika Srpska (RS).
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He announced that these laws would come into effect on Friday.
Ljubomir Borovčanin was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in September 2002, and in April 2005 he voluntarily surrendered to that court, where he was sentenced to 2010 years in prison in 17.
He was transferred to Denmark to serve his sentence in 2011. After serving two-thirds of his sentence, he was released on August 1, 2016.
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