Milorad Dodik

Milorad Dodik

Milorad Dodik ( Cyrillic Милорад Додик, born March 12, 1959 in Laktaši , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian politician ( SNSD ) of Serbian ethnicity. From 2010 to 2018 he was President of the Republika Srpska , one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been a member of the three-person state presidency since the 2018 elections .

Life

Milorad Dodik studied political science at the University of Belgrade . From 1986 he held the office of President of the City Council in his hometown of Laktaši. In 1990 he succeeded in the first parliamentary elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a candidate for Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije (SRSJ, Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia) in parliament.

Later he was a member of the parliament of the Republika Srpska, where he was in opposition to the ruling Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) led by Radovan Karadžić . In 1996 he founded the Stranka nezavisnih socijaldemokrata (SNSD, Party of Independent Social Democrats), which in 2002 merged with a smaller party to form Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata (SNSD, Alliance of Independent Social Democrats). Dodik has been chairman of the SNSD without interruption since 1996.

From 1998 to 2001 he was Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska , and from 2006 to 2010 he held this office again. Dodik repeatedly questioned the existence of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the elections in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the entities on October 3, 2010, he was elected President of the Republika Srpska.

According to a Belgrade news agency, the Bosnian investigative authority, SIPA , filed a criminal complaint against Milorad Dodik and other people, including several ministers and business people, in February 2009. They were accused of "forming a criminal organization headed by Prime Minister Milorad Dodik". A SIPA spokeswoman said later that it was not a criminal complaint, but a report to the public prosecutor that was passed on without the knowledge and consent of the Bosnian-Serbian director of SIPA.

Dodik is married and has two grown children.

Positions

Srebrenica massacre

Dodik caused a particular stir in connection with the 1995 massacre of Srebrenica by Serbian militias , in which thousands of adult and young Muslims were murdered. In April 2010, in an interview with the Belgrade newspaper Novosti , he denied this genocide , as condemned by the UN and the EU , for example . He also claimed that the number of victims was 3,500 and not - as is generally accepted - around 8,000.

On the 20th anniversary of the massacre, he demanded that Srebrenica should also be declared a memorial for the “genocide of the Serbs”. In April 2019, now in the office of the Serbian representative in the state presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, he spoke at a conference in Banja Luka entitled "Srebrenica, Truth and Manipulation" about a myth of lies of the Bosniaks about Srebrenica, which in truth does not exist.

Shelling of Zagreb

On April 13, 2011, the Association of Former Prisoners of Bosnia-Herzegovina wrote a letter to Croatian President Ivo Josipović , quoting Dodik, who was clearly in favor of shelling Zagreb. According to the Bosnian media, Dodik is said to have said in 1995: Ja se slažem da trebamo tući Zagreb, ali ne smijemo to reći (in German: I am in favor of us beating Zagreb, but we are not allowed to pronounce it ). They demanded that Dodik be tried for war crimes in the Croatian Supreme Court .

Web links

• Frankfurter Rundschau: “It works without the EU” - Interview with Milorad Dodik
• Homepage of the President of the Republika Srpska

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2010&mm=11&dd=15&nav_category=167&nav_id=472366. b92.net, November 15, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Milorad Dodik at the Southeast European Times
3. ↑ Historical development of the SNSD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on their website  
4. ↑ Krivična prijava protiv Dodika i ministara ( Memento of the original dated April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Noviska Agencija Beta, February 20, 2009, criminal complaint against Prime Minister Dodik derStandard.at February 19, 2009 
5. ↑ Bosnian Serb leader accused of corruption , International Herald Tribune Europe, February 24, 2009
6. ↑ Short biography ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from predsjednistvobih.ba, accessed February 21, 2019 (Bosnian) 
7. ↑ Serb leader denies genocide in Srebrenica , Münchner Merkur, April 27, 2010
8. ^ Alan Posener: Republika Srpska: Bosnia-Herzegovina's unknown half . In: THE WORLD . August 10, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
9. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/srebrenica-massacre-genocide-milorad-dodik-bosnia-myth-a8869026.html
10. ↑ http://www.vijesti.ba/vijest-dana/37279-Transkripti-Tako-govorio-Dodik-slazem-trebamo-tuci-Zagreb-ali-smijemo-reci.html