Helez: The “Serbian world” has collapsed like a house of cards, the situation on the western side of the Drina has been resolved

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Minister of Defense Zukan Helez said that today’s decision by the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina marks the end of Milorad Dodik’s political career, now the former president of the Bosnian entity RS.

“The “Serbian world” has collapsed like a house of cards. Following today’s decision by the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the political life of Milorad Dodik, now the former president of the Bosnian entity RS, has come to an end after more than 15 years of uninterrupted rule. To make today even better, RS Prime Minister Radovan Višković, Dodik’s closest ally, ensured that he resigned from his position as RS Prime Minister, thereby bringing down what was probably the most corrupt government in Europe,” Helez wrote.

He said that Bosnia and Herzegovina had won, and that the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been so attacked and challenged by the RS regime, were the ones that had legally ended Dodik’s political career, thus demonstrating their power and effectiveness.

“On the western side of the Drina, we have gotten rid of the main protagonists of Greater Serbian politics and Putin’s most western allies, while on the eastern side of the Drina, Vučić’s regime, as it stands now, will send the army onto the streets against its own citizens in order to save the regime from collapse,” he added.

He said he was deeply concerned about the images coming out of Serbia these days, where, he said, the regime was becoming increasingly brutal in its confrontations with protesting citizens.

“The arrest of 12-year-olds and the beating of citizens who are peacefully seeking freedom and justice are characteristics of dictatorial countries in South America or Africa, not of a single European country. However, I am convinced that Vučić’s regime can only be saved from complete collapse for a short time,” he stressed.

The results of the rule of both regimes, Helez points out, are that the areas they ruled are among the poorest in Europe, and the future of millions of people has been destroyed.

“These two nationalist autocrats have displaced more people with their corrupt rule than the war in the 1990s. Dodik may continue to threaten secession and referendums (I believe that even at home he is no longer taken seriously on this issue), but the key thing is that better days are coming for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country. Better days are coming for all citizens who want freedom, equality, justice, and economic progress; better days are coming for all who want the EU,” concludes Helez./Klix.ba/