(23 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bratunac, Srebrenica – 23 May 2024
1. Graveyard and cross
2. President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik arriving with government delegation
3. Various for memorial for Serb victims of war
4. Wreath laying ceremony
5. Soldiers
6. Dodik paying respects
7. Roses on monument
8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska:
"Today, our government, I hope, at my initiative, will accept my proposal to prepare an analysis on the last 30 years of functioning, with the result which will be a wide report that will in 30 days be submitted to the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, as a signatory of the Dayton peace agreement, that will offer our suggested proposal of dissolution of Bosnia Herzegovina, so we can return to the framework of our authority – something we have contributed before into Bosnia-Herzegovina."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Srebrenica -23 May 2024
9. Dodik motorcade passing by Srebrenica memorial center
10. Memorial center sign
11. Various of police outside memorial
12. Meeting
15. Surveillance plane flying over
STORYLINE:
The leader of Bosnia’s Serb-controlled territory reiterated a threat to secede from the Balkan country, a day ahead of a U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.
Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, has made several such threats in the past to have the Serb-controlled territories secede from Bosnia and join with neighboring Serbia.
Relatives of the Srebrenica victims, meanwhile, said that the vote would mark a historic day in ensuring that the deaths cannot be denied or forgotten.
The proposed U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda has been supported by the Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslim, but has sparked protests and a lobbying campaign against the measure by Dodik, and the populist president of neighboring Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.
The two leaders say the resolution would brand all Serbs as genocidal, although the draft does not explicitly mention Serbs as culprits.
Both Serbia and Bosnian Serbs have denied that genocide happened in Srebrenica although this has been established by two U.N. courts.
Dodik and some other Bosnian Serb officials are under U.S. and British sanctions partly for jeopardizing a U.S. peace plan that ended Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
AP video shot by Eldar Emric
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