Banja Luka taxi drivers organized a protest ride Monday to express their opposition to the initiative to adopt the Resolution on Srebrenica in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Taxi drivers gathered in Vidovdanska Street in Banja Luka at the former bus station, from where they started a protest ride.

Their cars were covered with messages “Taxi drivers are against the adoption of the Srebrenica resolution.”

A similar protest was organized by taxi drivers’ associations in Belgrade.

Independent taxi drivers in Banja Luka are known to have been working for the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) for years, during the election campaigns, providing various services in the name and at the expense of this party – ranging from free rides to having their vehicles “decorated” with advertising material and SNSD flags a few days before the elections.

The vote on the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica at the UNGA was postponed twice, however, the adoption of the resolution, which is more than certain, should take place in May.

The President of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, in his media appearances in recent days, threatened secession from Bosnia if the resolution is passed, Dodik used almost every opportunity he had to deny the genocide. Also, Dodik and his associates scheduled an RS parliament meeting in Srebrenica on May 2, when the UN General Assembly was supposed to vote on the Resolution.