I challenge him to show me what he's got, go on, tough guy, dismiss me, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik defiantly said at a press conference Thursday, talking about the deadline given to him by international community's Valentin Inzko to change the plaque from a student dormitory named after convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, in Pale neighbourhood, near the country's capital.
“Who else believes Inzko? Whom can he give a deadline to? He can't even give his own… Where is his support for something like that? That's the story from Sarajevo because a new US administration is coming, so Inzko is trying to do something. Where does he get the authority from to change policies? Where does it say in the Dayton? Where did he read that he could do that? These are serious discussions, and he is frivolous. He's nothing but a scoundrel. Who's he going to punish? What kind of punishment will he impose? Inzko is a funny figure from whom Sarajevo expects to punish and sanction someone,” Bosnian Serb presidency member Milorad Dodik said.
“I challenge him to show me what he's got, go on, tough guy, dismiss me,” Dodik said defiantly.
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Valentin Inzko, the Austrian diplomat tasked with overseeing the civilian implementation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the Bosnian war, told local media last month he would ask the EU to ban all politicians who deny genocide and glorify war criminals when he presents his next report to the UN Security Council in May 2021.
The student dormitory named after Karadzic is located in Pale, near the Bosnian capital and in Bosnia's Serb-majority semi-autonomous Republika Srpska (RS) entity. Karadzic was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes he had committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia by a UN court.
Dodik, who is the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency and the leader of the ruling party in Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, was the one to ceremonially open the student dormitory.
“They [Western countries] keep telling us that the Convention on Rights and Freedoms is an integral part of Bosnia's Constitution. When they need something, they use it, and when they don't need it, they abuse it. They are trying to sell that story that the Convention is an integral part of the Constitution. We Serbs will lead the policy we want, we asked them to give us back the Bosnia envisaged by the Dayton Peace Agreement and we have no problem with such a Bosnia. We have a problem with every other Bosnia,” Dodik said.
