Ultra-nationalist party head defends MP's offensive tweet

SRS leader Vojislav Seselj said he had advised MP Vjerica Radeta to delete the inappropriate tweet which said that she “heard that the head of the Srebrenica business women’s association Hatidza Mehmedovic had died” and asked “who is going to bury her? Her husband or her sons?”

Mehmedovic lost her husband and sons in Srebrenica genocide in July 1995 when Bosnian Serb forces overran the Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia.

 “Radeta is a prominent official of the SRS and deputy parliament speaker,” he told the pro-government Informer tabloid daily and added that he would not allow anyone to dismiss her.

“Radeta’s tweet was clumsy and no one saw the essence. She was alluding to the fact that there was talk about Hatidza Mehmedovic’s husband and sons being alive just as we recently discovered that (former Srebrenica Mothers’ Association head) Munira Subasic’s son is living in Canada,” the SRS leader said.

Seselj added that the SRS would “fiercely oppose her dismissal”.

Radeta’s tweet drew condemnation from the public and officials in Serbia and opposition Democratic Party (DS) MPs submitted a request to dismiss her from the post of deputy parliament speaker.

  Radeta’s Twitter account (@VjericaR) has been inaccessible for the several days but it’s not clear whether it was deleted and by who.