SARAJEVO -- Instead of legal facts, the reincarnation of past political ideas appeared in Bosnia-Herzegovina after a viewing of the Storm footage.
Source: B92
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Instantly, Dodik once again called for a referendum to be announced for the RS’s independence.
The clashes between Dodik and Tihić threaten to grow into an open political conflict. Such conflicts, which seem to not have any point to them, show up usually during election campaigns. Within the flood of accusations, counter-accusations, threats, demands and political messages incited by the war crimes footage from the 1995 Storm operation, most have failed to notice that these political conflicts have overshadowed the work of the Prosecutor’s Office, which is expected to investigate the case and bring the necessary war criminals to justice if the grounds for suspicion exist, said B92’s Sarajevo correspondent Amir Sužanj.
Even though investigations were initiated as soon as the footage was shown, and the state prosecution very openly discussed the roads of cooperation to take in this case, the political scandals continue.
Various associations are demanding the initiation of investigations which have already begun, and politicians are offering their visions of war crimes in these regions of the former Yugoslavia, while the true victims of the war stand on the sidelines, having already given up much of their hope for finding out the truth behind their tragedies.
The new political conflict is a picture of everyday life in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Only naïve and uninformed people can believe that any of these politicians expect that their words and actions will make any changes on the political scene in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Finding solutions for many more pressing questions will obviously have to wait for another time and a different political structure. What is going on now is a famliar political game, something that is not unusual for Bosnia-Herzegovina.