DODIK: UZUNOVIĆ'S DECISION IS SCANDALOUS, I PROPOSE A NATIONWIDE RALLY

JERUSALEM, JANUARY 27 /SRNA/ - SNSD leader Milorad Dodik described as scandalous the verdict handed down by Sena Uzunović, who sentenced Miodrag Malić to three years in prison for raising three fingers and displaying photographs of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, and proposed holding a nationwide rally to express opposition to such a decision.

Dodik said that Uzunović, a judge of the Court of BiH, has a wartime bias, noting that she fought on the other side during the war and that she delivered a disgraceful verdict. "Now someone has given her judicial power to pass verdicts. It is unbelievable that you are not allowed to raise three fingers, that it is considered offensive. This is a traditional Serbian greeting," Dodik told reporters in Jerusalem. He assessed that the verdict represents yet another example of a scandalous judicial practice directed against Serbs. "Three years in prison!? Do they really think someone will allow that? I will propose that we all rally around this case and hold a large nationwide protest," Dodik said. He stressed that this is yet another example of the dismantling of BiH and the undermining of the autonomy of the Republika Srpska and the identity of the Serbian people. Dodik noted that Uzunović had been a commander, or a member of a wartime headquarters under whose jurisdiction Serbs were killed in Bradina, and that she took no action despite being responsible for ensuring that perpetrators were punished. "She later, as a judge, tried those same individuals and acquitted them," Dodik recalled. By a first-instance verdict of the Court of BiH, Judge Sena Uzunović sentenced Miodrag Malić to three years in prison for raising three fingers and holding photographs of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić at an opposition rally in Banja Luka.