Posted on 03/06/2007 2:14:29 PM PST by kronos77
Banjaluka, 6 March (AKI) - Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has received several death threats in the past week, after the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week ruled that the Bosnian Serb army in July 1995 committed genocide against local Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica - when Serb forces murdered up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys - daily Nezavisne novine said on Tuesday.
The most recent threat received by Dodik was contained in a letter signed by the hitherto unknown 'New Bosnia' organisation, which arrived on Monday, said Dodik’s spokeswoman Vera Sajic. 'New Bosnia' threatened to kill Dodik and his family and to bomb his motorcade in Banjaluka, capital of the Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS), Sajic said.
The letter said that 'New Bosnia' has already sent a 'detachment' to Banjaluka with "the most sophisticated equipment" to blow up Dodik’s motorcade should he move out of the city. The phantom organisation also threatened to blow up all trucks and buses bearing Serbian plates and to mine all bridges on the Drina River between Bosnia and Serbia.
Dodik, who is RS prime minister, has resisted pressure from majority Muslims and the international community to reduce the powers of the two Bosnian entities, the RS and the Muslim-Croat federation. The Dayton peace accord that ended Bosnian civil war in 1995 granted both entities most of the powers of a state.
Muslim leaders have stepped up the drive for the complete abolition of RS as a "creature of genocide” after the ICJ's 26 February ruling. The court, however, threw out the suit by Bosnian Muslims claiming the Serbian state was responsible for the Srebrenica genocide but blamed it for failing to prevent this.
The court ruling left both sides dissatisfied and wartime animosities have been intensifiying again in Bosnia twelve years after the civil war ended. Complaining that the IJC sentence against Serb forces involved in the Srebrenica massacre was not harsh enough, 'New Bosnia' said in a letter that it was now time time for Serbs to be subjected to genocide.
"It’s your turn now, and all Serbs will be eternal target of guerilla attacks and destruction by those insulted and humiliated whose fathers, brothers, children and others were slaughtered, helpless to defend themselves,” the letter said.
There was no immediate comment from Dodik, but the RS authorities have said that the threats were being investigated and that the central Bosnian authorities and police in Sarajevo have been informed. (Vpr/Aki)
Islam... cant live with it.
Didn't it work out that Oric ended up spending about 3 minutes in jail for each of the murders he was found guilty of committing?
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