A 2012 documentary featuring Slavisa Krunic, a Bosnian Serb businessman who was assassinated on Monday evening, portrayed him as a man of peace, loyal to his country as well as his Serb nationality.
Krunic, who was the owner of several enterprises, including security agency ‘Sector Security’ and bakery chain ‘Zitopeka’ was killed in what appeared to be an ambush near his house in a suburb of Banja Luka. One of his associates, as well as the person who attacked them, died in the gunfire exchange.
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“Why did we wage war?” Krunic asked in the documentary, saying that the war took the country backwards.
He also said he knows that Bosnia and Herzegovina existed before the war and that he feels that it is his country – an opinion contrary to the policy of the current Bosnian Serb leadership.
“Ok, people, where did we live before? What was the name of the republic we lived in? That (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is not a new term. I don’t know why I should be getting used to Bosnia and Herzegovina now, I lived there, I was born there,” he said.
“I think our generation suffered the most because those were the most beautiful years a person should live during his life,” he said about the Bosnian war, blaming “our politicians back then who have proven themselves as very, very naive and unprofessional when they led such politics back then which dragged all of us living on this territory into a senseless conflict.”
He spoke about the workin atmosphere in Sector Security, where people from all ethnic backgrounds in Bosnia work together.
“Here nobody looks at what nationality anyone is,” he said of his company. “If someone is a good person, you can teach him everything, if not, you can never teach him to be a human even if you would hire the best consultants in the world.”
He explained that most of the people working for his companies know each other from before and worked together until 1991.
“Some were employed by the army, some worked for the police. That bad period distanced everyone from each other. All of them, just like me, feel like they were tricked, and all of them would mention how the time until then was very good, how we would live and work together,” Krunic said.
Only joint works produces a result and those who do not gain anything from such a way of thinking and working “create this hatred,” he said.
“Here we do not hate,” Krunic described his company. “Nobody throughout all of these years we are working together was ever insulted on a national or any other basis.”
Police in Bosnia’s Serb-majority semi-autonomous Republika Srpska (RS) entity has on Tuesday arrested two suspects of the assassination.
