Outgoing Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Milorad Dodik has called on his supporters to join his rally next week and show that they are the offspring of Gavrilo Princip - who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, as well as the former Yugoslav military officer Milan Tepic - who killed himself, 11 Croatian defenders and dozens of former Yugoslav army conscripts in 1991.

In his Twitter account, the leader of the ruling SNSD party in Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity, on Saturday called on his supporters to turn out in large numbers for his rally in Banja Luka next Tuesday and to show that that they are the descendants of Princip and Tepic.

Dodik expects about 25,000 participants in the rally scheduled for 25 October in Banja Luka. Initially, the rally was planned as the response to a recent rally organised by his opponents in the Serb-majority entity who accuse Dodik of the electoral fraud in the elections for the president of the Republika Srpska.

However, the latest invitation on Dodik's Twitter profile reads that the citizens should come to the rally to show their opposition to “foreign conquerors.”

The video concerned calls on them to follow the heroes from the Serb history and myths, such as Princip who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian royal couple during their visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) officer Milan Tepic killed himself, 11 Croatian soldiers and dozens of JNA conscripts in the Croatian city of Bjelovar in 1991 when he refused to surrender and instead, he destroyed the ammunition depot and during that incident the above-mentioned victims lost their lives.

Tepic, who was in charge of the ammunition depot in the village of Bedenik, had planned to blow up all four warehouses at that location but was prevented from doing so by four Croatian soldiers, whose intervention prevented an even bigger disaster.

In January this year, Banja Luka Mayor Drasko Stanivuković unveiled a plaque commemorating Tepic, describing him as “the last Yugoslav national hero.” The plaque was unveiled on the occasion of the day of the Serb entity of Republika Srpska, for which the BiH Constitutional Court said in 2016 cannot be marked on January 9 as it discriminates non-Serbs in that part of the country.