The television stations N1 and BNTV, as well as news portals Capital and Buka, issued a joint response to the recent attack and threats made against these media by the President of BiH’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, noting that Dodik’s statements represent an open institutional call for the persecution of journalists.
Labelling these four media as “enemies of the Serb people” and “destroyers of the Republika Srpska”, Milorad Dodik gave a signal to tens of thousands of his voters, followers, members of his SNSD party, and coalition partners, but also to the institutions he controls to mistreat employees of N1, BNTV, Capital.ba and Buka.ba. in any way.
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We resolutely reject all accusations made by the president of Republika Srpska, and we are considering the possibility of a collective lawsuit.
We call on the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska to initiate a procedure to physically protect our newsrooms and media workers, and to publicly declare whether there is an official order to monitor our journalists, or whether we are the subject of an investigation, given that the President of the Republika Srpska said that we are being monitored.
The fabrications regarding millions paid to these media to work on destroying Republika Srpska is not even worth commenting on, because it represents a classic diversion of attention from the real problems in the country, which these four newsrooms, as before, will continue to report professionally, regardless of the constant attacks, insults, incitement and efforts to create an environment in which it is desirable to attack a journalist, which according to the latest poll, as much as 74 percent of the citizens of Republika Srpska consider acceptable.
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