Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said today that "Muslims have set out to destroy" that entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
The BiH Prosecutor's Office today issued an order to bring Dodik, the Prime Minister of the RS Radovan Višković, and the President of the RS National Assembly Nenad Stevandić for questioning, after they failed to respond to a summons to give a statement as suspects in the overthrow of the constitutional order of BiH.
The BiH Prosecutor's Office opened a case against the three, charging them with "undermining the constitutional order" after laws adopted by the RS National Assembly on February 27 were published in the RS Official Gazette, banning the operation of the Prosecutor's Office and the Court of BiH, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), and SIPA on the territory of RS.
Dodik announced that the three of them would not respond to the summons from the prosecutor's office in Sarajevo.
"Here, bring him in, let's see how you bring him in," he said at a joint press conference with Višković and Stevandić.
Dodik assessed that a "haranguage against RS" is being made, in an effort to "feed a Muslim joint venture with the bazaar with such things, related to this pursuit of us, to arrest us": "The three of us are the leaders of the most important bodies in RS and we are not the only ones they are looking for, it says here that we are urgently wanted, as if we were Al Qaeda or something similar, which they know, right?"
Dodik says that today is a "solemn day" for them, because they are initiating the procedure for changing the RS Constitution and are today finalizing the draft. He said that they have no ambition for it to be contrary to the BiH Constitution, but rather "to be in accordance with it, with its letter, and not with its nonsense imposed by others."
"What the joint Muslim enterprise of prosecutors and čaršija in Sarajevo is doing, gathered around a certain prosecutor, Čapara, and Ćazim Hasanspahić, who signed this order, today speaks of the fact that Muslims have set out to destroy the RS. Those Muslims who have accepted and continue to accept, as if they had not studied law, to act according to the decisions of a foreigner who has no right to do so, and cannot make a decision, are violating the constitutional order of BiH, because it states that only the parliamentary assembly can pass laws."
Dodik says that "this is a worthless job today, politically motivated." "There is no law in BiH so far that mentions this act that they are trying to frame us for. We simply do not want to participate in it."
He said that he would carry out his duties, travel, but that he would never leave the RS.
"If anyone thinks we are cowards, they are sorely mistaken. We are not converts, like those in Sarajevo, or some here who walk around Banja Luka, who are ready to sell their faith, nation, and community for a little bit of a commodity. You have to understand that we are not the same."
He says they called for dialogue, but that "that dialogue has been ridiculed." "Maybe it's not time yet, so I don't want to talk to them. Well, then we'll be in big trouble. So, we still have time for that kind of talk."
"Here, the RS police are being asked to arrest me, the President of the Republic, the President of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister of the RS, and to hand me over to the notorious Muslim harangue group embodied in Čampara, who comes from a Muslim-eradicated family from Gacko, which has treated Serbs very unpleasantly throughout history. He has now been given the task of taking revenge. And this Ćazim ... Hasampahić ... unknown to me, but in essence, if anything reflects Muslim allegiance, then this is his last name and first name. If you, Mr. Ćazim, Kazim, are ready, however you want, to persecute us Serbs because we do not think like you, or do not share the same faith, you must know that even our ancestors did not want to succumb in far worse circumstances. I am not being heroic here, then you will not get away with it either," said Dodik.
He announced that today he too would file charges "against people like this, for demolishing various things."
Dodik claims that he does not hate any people, but that he cannot tolerate those who are "ready to lie and tamper".
He says he would not recommend that the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) act and believes it will not.
Dodik told EUFOR to stick to their mandate. "No Serb will shoot at you or do anything, but Serbs are not ready to tolerate occupiers."
Višković: I will never come to the court and prosecutor's office in Sarajevo of my own free will
Višković said that he would never come to the court and prosecutor's office in Sarajevo of his own free will, because he does not trust them and because he does not expect a fair trial from them.
Višković said that he will remain at the head of the RS Government and will work as he has done so far.
"What is happening today in BiH is the work of Kristijan Šmit, that scoundrel, liar, and fraudster to whom, unfortunately, some institutions in BiH give priority over legally elected institutions," Višković said at a joint press conference in Banja Luka, with RS President Milorad Dodik and RS National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić.
Višković said that he did nothing in the interest of violating the constitutional order:
"Go ahead, carry out your threat. You are shooting from an empty gun. But you are creating a situation where someone might shoot from a loaded gun. This is not a threat to Republika Srpska, there are conciliatory things coming from Republika Srpska, an invitation to talk... all of that is being ignored."
Stevandić: They are trying to take away our right to self-defense
Stevandić said that they were trying to take away their right to self-defense, which is "the greatest right that a person and a nation have."
He says that "the attack on the National Assembly of the RS and the Republika Srpska" is the only attack on the constitutional order.
He also said that he, Dodik and Stevandić have immunity on the territory of the RS, and that they are exposed to persecution.
"We are absolutely right in what we are doing. Being right in Bosnia and Herzegovina means being persecuted. At this moment, people who incite and call for war, who seek the arrest of political opponents, who seek the destruction of the people and their republic, who violate the constitutional order and the Dayton Agreement are protected and their harangue is directed at threatening our human, political rights, but also the right to life."
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