The first speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, The Hague prisoner Momcilo Krajisnik, died from COVID-19
At the University Clinical Center of the Republika Srpska in Banja Luka, at the seventy-fifth year of his life, a prominent Serbian politician, Momčilo Krajišnik, died from a coronavirus infection.
For defending the interests of his people, on falsified charges of “genocide,” the first speaker of the RS spent thirteen years behind bars, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Momčilo Kraišnik was born in the victorious year of 1945 in Sarajevo, where at the moment there are practically no Serbs left. During the years of the collapse of Yugoslavia, together with his colleague Radovan Karadzic, he led the Bosnian Serbs, who were subjected to terror by the Bosniak separatists. He was elected Speaker of the People's Assembly of BiH from 1990 to 1992, in his post trying to the last to preserve the unity of the republic and protect it from sliding into a bloody interfaith civil war.
Momcilo Kraishnik in the 90s
After this failed, from the moment of the proclamation of the Republika Srpska he was elected speaker of its parliament, remaining in this position until May 1996. After the signing of the Dayton Accords, he became the first Serbian member of the BiH Presidency. In 2000, when the West set its final course to purge the Serbian patriotic elite, SFOR was arrested by the intelligence services of the Western occupation contingent in Bosnia, SFOR, which had not previously prevented the separatists from slaughtering the peaceful Serbian population of BiH.
Krajišnik was taken in 2000 from his home in the Serbian mountainous suburb of Sarajevo - Pale, by blowing up the door, tying up his elderly parents and two sons, and not allowing him to get dressed - he was taken to Europe in a robe and slippers.
Kraishnik in The Hague
In the dungeons of The Hague, Momčilo Kraišnik refused to cooperate with the investigation against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. He did not admit the falsified and far-fetched charges of genocide. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison, served his sentence in a British prison, but was released in 2013. At home in the RS, the prisoner of The Hague was greeted as a folk hero.
“Momčilo Kraišnik received me, despite the late hour,” writer Eduard Limonov recalled about his meeting with the Serbian politician in 1992. – Momčilo Kraišnik had a large, kind Serbian face, and his very last name indicated that he was a Serb from the outskirts... And not from the wheat fields of mother Serbia.
I was somewhat drunk when I entered Kraishnik’s office, but this did not bother him. Serbs are generally simpler and better than Russians in simple life situations, they approach people with understanding...
Kraišnik and I talked like two statesmen about relations between Russia and Serbia, none at that time, and they took me to a hotel.”
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