RS leader: Autonomy now, independence later

RS leader: Autonomy now, independence later

ANDRIĆGRAD -- Milorad Dodik says the Serb people in Bosnia will continue fighting for autonomy, hoping that the political process will eventually result in the independence.

He made the remarks on Saturday, St. Vitus Day (Vidovdan), during the opening of the cultural and historical complex dubbed Andrićgrad.

“We need peace and we want it, we want to be a part of civilized Europe, but we do not want Europe to impose on us the Bosnian state and language. Bosnia-Herzegovina has shown everything but the capacity to survive. However, we will speak about that at some other time,” Dodik said at the ceremony with which the Serb entity in Bosnia, the RS, marked 100 years since the assassination in Sarajevo.

“We have seen that many would like, not only to eliminate Serbs, but also destroy our history. They forced Serbs to leave Sarajevo, and then they started taking away the history from us. It was only logical that we had to move and take our history with us, and bring it here,” Dodik said.

Today, it is clear that there is something that has a name and surname, that is the Serb people, whose name is Serbia, and surname Republika Srpska (Serb Republic), Dodik said.

Film director Emir Kusturica, who devised the Andrićgrad project, explained that the complex will be a lesson in how an identity is protected, and how an entire city is turned into cultural heritage.

Kusturica said that there is no other city dedicated to a Nobel Prize winner in Europe, and noted that Serbs' need to make a city like this probably stems from the fact that colonizers did not leave their cultural mark in these areas.

Kusturica thanked the RS government and...

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