GAGIĆ: MUSLIMS SEEK TO RAISE TENSIONS WITH JANJA - TEOČAK MARCH

BANJA LUKA, JULY 5 /SRNA/ – Chair of the Presidency of the Republika Srpska War Veterans Organisation /BORS/, Milovan Gagić, believes that the so-called "March of Peace," which Muslims intend to organise tomorrow from Janja to Teočak, is aimed at provoking unrest and increasing interethnic tensions.

"It is expected that the Muslims will use this march to raise tensions and that part of the international community will once again react by accusing the Serbs of being the main culprits while portraying the Muslims as victims, as if, 30 years after the war, Serb victims had never existed," Gagić told SRNA. Gagić stressed that Muslim criminals who killed and slaughtered Serbs during the war now walk freely across BiH, while Serbs are not even allowed to raise three fingers as a symbol of Serbs’ identity without immediately being prosecuted and convicted. "BiH is a powder keg because the Bosniaks want a unitary BiH in which neither the Serbs nor Serb war victims exist in their view," Gagić said. He added that, for Serb veterans and Republika Srpska, the flag of the so-called Army of BiH under which the Serbs were killed and slaughtered the last war. Gagić said BORS supports the Republika Srpska Government's decision to amend the Criminal Code by introducing criminal offences for the public promotion and glorification of the Ustasha movement and the Ustasha ideology of the Independent State of Croatia, as well as the public display and promotion of the flags and symbols of the so-called Army of BiH. The Panter Guards Veterans Association recently warned that the so-called "March of Peace" from Janja to Teočak, announced for tomorrow, is intended to cast a stain on the Serb people of Semberija and further inflame already heightened ethnic tensions. "We are concerned by the announcement of the so-called March of Peace, organised by Nedim Trebinčević from Janja, which is to pass through the Serb villages of Modran, Suvo Polje and Trnova on its way to Teočak," the veterans said, adding that no such event had previously been organised.