Dodik says Bosnia-Herzegovina "makes him sick"

Source: Večernji list

ZAGREB -- Bosnia is causing "a sensation of nausea" in RS President Milorad Dodik, according to an interview with him published by the Croatian daily Večernji List.

Milorad Dodik (FoNet, file)

According to the newspaper, the leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS), also said that he in fact "does not live in Bosnia".
"I live in the Serb Republic," he was quoted as saying, and adding:

"Sarajevo is today an ethnically cleansed town, there are neither Serbs nor Croats there. (Muslim) Reis (Mustafa) Cerić - who is leaving that office and is politically engaged to a high degree, producing jitters, objected when (SPC) Bishop Grigorije said precisely that. They won't even allow Santa Claus in kindergartens there, and they claim that Croats and Serbs are welcome."

Dodik advised Croats in Bosnia "not to accept any rearrangement" of the entity they share with Bosnia's Muslims - the Federation - unless it was to form a separate Croat entity. Otherwise, he stated, "they were set to waste 20 years".

"Bosnia-Herzegovina as a state has a future only in case a third, Croat entity is set up, so there is the Serb Republic, Herzeg-Bosnia, and Bosnia, so that only foreign policy, foreign security and foreign trade decisions are made on the state-level," suggested Dodik.

"Right now in Bosnia-Herzegovina an international experiment is ongoing where Serbs and Croats have been disciplined, while Bosniaks (Muslims) have been allowed leeway, and a pathological situation has been created," the RS leader noted, and concluded:

"That has convinced Bosniaks that they are the victim and that they are entitled to more than the other two peoples. That's not true, there were victims on all sides, more so among Bosniaks considering their numbers."