Bosnian Serb fined for displaying Serbian flag on Christmas Eve
In the town of Ojak in the Federation of (Muslim-Croatian) BiH, a local Serb was sentenced to a fine of 200 Bosnian marks (more than 9 thousand rubles) for driving through the streets with a Serbian flag on Christmas Eve.
The Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs of the Federation of BiH, Djordje Radanovic, believes that this is how the Serbs are trying to show that they have no place in the FBIH, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I was not surprised by their behavior,” Radanovich noted. “With these measures they are pushing the Serbs out of Ojak.” The fact is that in the last elections, a Serb from the Union of Independent Social Democrats (Milorad Dodik’s party from the neighboring entity Republika Srpska - ed.) won a mandate in the municipal council, and for them this became an additional problem.
And our job is to fight, as did the residents of Ojak, who have a representative in the municipal council. Until today, the Serbian people are not spelled out in any way in the Constitution of the Posavina Canton (to which Ojak belongs - ed.).”
Djordje Radanovic
Also, the Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs of the Federation of BiH noted that Serbia is an internationally recognized state, whose flag flies in front of the UN headquarters in New York, as well as in other world capitals.
“I cannot understand how any authority in BiH can consider that someone is offended by the display of the flag of an internationally recognized state. It is not a problem for the Serbian flag to develop in world capitals, but it is a problem for Ojak.”
Radanović believes that the Serbian flag offends Bosniaks and Croats, possibly due to Odžak being an Ustaše stronghold during World War II.
“Berlin fell on May 9, and Ojak on May 25, 1945. And many of today’s residents are descendants of those who fought in the military formations of the Independent State of Croatia, and are heirs to the Ustasha ideology,” the human rights activist noted.
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