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BANJA LUKA, June 2 (FENA) - The MPs of the ruling majority in the National Assembly of the entity of Republika Srpska (RSNA) adopted last night 20 conclusions rejecting, among other things, the Resolution on Respect for the Victims of Fascist Regimes and Movements, adopted by the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly on May 20.
The Serb opposition parties and Bosniak MPs from the "Together for BiH" coalition chose not to attend the vote after a full day of heated debate which almost turned into a fistfight near its end.
The conclusions supported by 52 deputies, state, among other things, that the Resolution "does not correspond to historical facts and as such cannot be applied in the RS."
“The House of Representatives, joined by revisionist forces, took to the shameful rewriting of historical facts aimed at generalizing and marginalizing the Serb suffering in the Second World War,” reads one of the conclusions supported by the SNSD, Democratic People's Alliance (DNS), People's Democratic Movement (NDP), Democratic Alliance (DEMOS), United Srpska, Socialist Party of Srpska (SPS), Socialist Party (SP) and independent delegates.
The majority concluded that the very name of the Resolution is unacceptable because “it qualifies fascist regimes and movements as aggressors, and not as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH),” a Nazi-allied statelet that ruled over Croatia, Bosnia and a part of today’s Serbia.
These and other conclusions were adopted late Monday evening without the votes of the opposition who had left the session before the vote.
On behalf of the "Together for BiH" parliamentary group, Begija Smajić said that it was not acceptable for the entity parliament, as a lower level of government, to discuss a document adopted by a higher level of government, the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly.
During her address, she stated that the RS National Assembly, instead of discussing the Resolution on Respecting the Victims of Fascist Regimes and Movements, should have adopted a resolution banning the denial of the Srebrenica genocide.
“Only if we act institutionally can we prevent crimes from ever happening again. If we had acted institutionally, when it comes to the victims of the fascist regimes and the initiators, maybe the genocide in Srebrenica would not have happened,” underlined Smajić.
(FENA) S. R.
