05/05/1994 | Voices from the Drina

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As regards dividing the state three ways, we must not accept this. I ask that we do not discuss %s ever again. The factual situation we have on the ground is what we will discuss, and in the RS Assembly we will sit and agree on what we could concede from this factual situation.

🧵 I think that when we are talking about internal affairs, we must have in mind something which I believe is not a benign phenomenon. This is the arrival of the Socialist Party of Serbia in the Republika Srpska’s political scene and the kindling once again of socialism.

This politics is antithetical to our own views and our fight and our internal politics of the RS. The SPS consider us to be extremists, and our party and state politics to be chauvinistic and nationalist, and they are seeking equal rights for all the nations (?!) in the RS.

In their manifesto, there is a strict demarcation, not with the Turks and Ustaše, but with the church. In my municipality they have recently founded a local party and you can already feel the polarisation among the people.

Ordinary soldiers are asking what is going on; while they die and perish from wounds in the snow, mud and trenches, and defend Serbdom, the socialists are openly accusing us of war, and advocate the overthrow of the governments of the RS and of the SDS party.