Why are the Democratic Action Party (SDA) and the Croat Democratic Unity (HDZ BiH) so scared of the publication of the veterans’ register? The veterans have never been closer to fulfilling their conditions, Social Democratic Party’s MP in the Federation’s House of Representatives, Zukan Helez told N1.
The MP in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity House of Representatives said that the register must have two sections: Combatants and Non-combatants.
“The register will clearly say ‘Combatant’ and we will clearly know who served where. Those who served the army as combatants will receive a salary, those who did not, will not receive it,” Helez said. “We need the register to apply the law. Not everyone will receive an allowance. If everyone received it, we wouldn’t be able to pay everyone.”
He also called on all veterans not to block the roads and lives of Bosnian citizens because it was not their fault that veterans are in bad economic position.
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War veterans, former members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RBiH) and the Croat Defence Council (HVO) temporarily blocked two highways at Sicki Brod near Tuzla and a road near the Bijaca border crossing, Monday, demanding the adoption of the harmonised Law on the Rights of Veterans.
The FBiH entity House of Peoples adopted on July 26, the Draft Law on the Rights of Veterans and Members of their Families in the form adopted by the FBiH Government.
The House of Peoples did not adopt the amendments which were earlier adopted by the House of Representatives, which the FBiH Government also rejected. This means that the two houses will have to align the adopted versions of the Law at one of the following sessions.
The said law fulfilled all the demands earlier stated by the veterans, which are the publication of the single veterans’ registry, the abolition of the financing of veterans’associations, and the right to have a veterans’ allowance.
