LATINOVIĆ: ROOT OF HATRED LIES IN CONVERSION OF PROVOCATEURS

BELGRADE, SEPTEMBER 16 /SRNA/ – The hatred that has these days poured out upon Serbs in Bosanski Petrovac and other returnee places in Bosanska Krajina has its roots in the convert origins of their provocateurs, but is also the product of a policy that where Muslims live everything must be Muslim and there is no room for other nations, Mirko Latinović from the Association of Petrovac Residents in Novi Sad told SRNA.

Latinović said that such politics, promoted by political Sarajevo, is supported above all by Germany and Great Britain, countries of the Islamic world, as well as various Wahhabi and other movements operating in the Federation of BiH. “All this is done with the aim of creating some Muslim state. They are bothered by a strong people in this area, uniting larger spaces, and that is the Serbs. To this should also be added the Vatican and the Catholic Church, directed against the Serb people,” Latinović said. He stated that Serb returnees in Bosanski Petrovac and other places would economically survive because they have lived there for centuries and are not accustomed to much, but the problem of survival lies in the feeling of insecurity, as they constantly ask themselves – what will tomorrow bring? “After such events, the question arises whether we will eventually, God forbid, have to flee again? That is the biggest problem. They see their only salvation in Republika Srpska and Serbia,” Latinović said. Latinović emphasized that Bosanska Krajina has always been Serb and that everyone knows this, even the Croat member of the BiH Presidency Željko Komšić, who at the celebration of the ‘liberation’ of Ključ did everything to convince both himself and those present of the opposite. “We know that in Ključ in June 1463, through treachery, Stjepan Tomašević was executed, and then Bosnia definitely fell under the Turks. Mostly, all those Muslim families were either indigenous Serbs who had converted to Mohammedanism, or they came as refugees from Lika after the Turks’ defeat at Krbavsko polje, and in Lika they were once again Islamized Serbs,” he noted. Latinović added that the refugee families at that time settled in Cazin, Kladuša, Bihać, Petrovac, Sanski Most, and Mrkonjić Grad. “All of them have Serb roots. That is the problem of converts – they hate the most what they themselves once were. This is not distant history, everything is known. The whole of Krajina, both ours and the other, has always been Serb. For example, the Moštanica Monastery began to be built, according to some sources, in 1111,” Latinović said. He emphasized that besides persecution, Muslims are systematically destroying everything connected to Serbs. “Some things we hear about in the media, such as the destruction of the Orthodox cemetery in Zenica, but much remains unknown. In the village of Lipnik in Sanski Most, they destroyed a monument erected to the Serbs whom a bey impaled in 1835. The story of the godfathers of Lipnik is a story of honor, morality, and the integrity of the Serb man. Those who have neither honor nor morality want to erase all traces of Serb existence,” Latinović said. During the celebration of the “liberation” of Bosanski Petrovac, a procession with war symbols and terrifying cries to which ritual killings of Serbs by beheading were carried out passed through Serb returnee villages. The convoy consisted mainly of youth, while it was led by a police patrol. Bosanski Petrovac is one of 13 West Krajina municipalities attacked by members of the HVO and the Fifth Corps of the so-called Army of BiH. Due to crimes committed in that area against Serb soldiers and civilians, proceedings are being conducted before the Court of BiH against Fifth Corps commander Atif Dudaković and 15 other commanders. The indictment charges them with the killing of more than 300 Serbs, mostly civilians, as well as the destruction of a large number of Serb villages.