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Silajdzic announces initiative to ensure special status for Srebrenica

SARAJEVO, March 6 (Hina) - The Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, Haris Silajdzic, has announced launching an initiative to ensure a special status for the eastern municipality of Srebrenica.
SARAJEVO, March 6 (Hina) - The Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, Haris Silajdzic, has announced launching an initiative to ensure a special status for the eastern municipality of Srebrenica.

"Since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that the Republika Srpska authorities in Srebrenica committed genocide, a special status should be given to this former UN-protected area and other municipalities in eastern Bosnia where genocide victims originate from," Silajdzic said in a statement.

Bosniak refugees who returned to Srebrenica have announced a collective relocation from the area, claiming that constant pressure from local Serbs and Bosnian Serb authorities has made their life there impossible.

Bosnian media reported on Tuesday that the Committee for the Collective Relocation of Returnees from Srebrenica had issued a proclamation announcing their departure for March 14.

"We are bringing attention to the fact that our stay in Srebrenica is untenable. We are sending our last warning to the most senior officials of the international community and the government of this country to urgently draw up a plan and propose concrete measures to make our life bearable and dignified," the proclamation said, as quoted by Oslobodjenje daily.

The deputy mayor of Srebrenica, Ramo Dautbasic, said that Bosniaks were being threatened all the time and arrested by police on war crimes charges. He cited as a special problem the fact that reconstruction projects were bypassing the Bosniak community.

"Injustices suffered by the Bosniak returnees in Srebrenica have become unendurable and we have opted for a collective relocation," Dnevni Avaz daily quoted Dautbasic as saying.

Mayor Abdurahman Malkic concurred. "It's hard to be a Bosniak here, because everything is being done to drive out the people who have returned."

Republika Srpska Premier Milorad Dodik called on the returnees not to leave. "I absolutely deny anything bad has been done to the returnees in Srebrenica. This can only be a politicised story to put additional pressure on Republika Srpska," he said.

Dodik invited Bosniak leaders in Srebrenica for talks to discuss their problems, but noted that he could not stop them from leaving the municipality if they were really intent on doing so.

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