it s part of a series of threats dodik has made to separate from the rest of bosnia since he rejected a new law banning genocide denial. in bosnia, many people suspect leaders of all sides play on fears of new violence to secure their own power. that s dangerous in a fragile country where world leaders are still heroes. serb nationalists venerate general ratko mladic, now serving life for genocide. dodik wouldn t meet the bbc, so we spoke to disabled serb war veterans in banja luka. they wanted reconciliation. for them, that means acceptance that they were also victims, unfairly condemned for fighting for theirfamilies and their old commander. translation: ratko mladic is sentenced, he is in jail, i but he is still our hero. i don t understand why they can t just accept this.
they say it s only serbs who committed genocide in this country, no one else, it s only the serbs who were killing people. we are not that kind of people. translation: if politicians fail to get an agreement, it will be ordinary people again who will feel the pain. and if a war does happen, the people will never come back from it. we didn t come back from the last one. bosnia s economy never recovered and every piece of war damage connects to someone s nightmare. shrapnel hit these homes in besieged sarajevo on a snowy saturday in 1994 after a brief ceasefire tempted children out to play. i arrived after shells from the serb side killed six of them. archive footage: the children were killed at about half past one on a housing estate less than a mile from the front line.
on her 73rd birthday, this woman went to the graves of her sons in the cemetery where more than 6000 of the genocide s victims are buried. she says she wants reconciliation, but the local serbs scare her. translation: they make a lot of noise. they want to provoke fear. sometimes i m afraid to spend the night in my house, but i have to. i have nowhere else to go. most of the world accepts genocide happened here, but srebrenica is in republika srpska, where denial of that genocide is in the political mainstream. in 1995 dutch un troops could not protect terrified bosniak civilians who d crowded into these concrete sheds at their base.
they stood aside as serb forces separated the men and the boys from the women and took them away to kill them. the genocide in srebrenica was also the culmination of a catastrophic failure by the outside world to stop the war, to end the killing in bosnia, and you can understand if you come to a place like this why people are nervous again about the prospects of those old forces, of nationalism and ethnic hatred, being weaponised by unscrupulous politicians. this is milorad dodik, the bosnian serb leader. troops chant. injanuary he led a parade through banja luka, his capital. he is talking about turning these paramilitary police into a bosnian serb army.
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