DODIK: INJUSTICE HURTS AS NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS

BELGRADE, MARCH 24 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President, Milorad Dodik, has pointed out tonight in Belgrade at the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of those killed in the NATO aggression against FR Yugoslavia, that there are many sad days in the Serb people’s history, and that this is one of those that hurts more the time passes, because the injustice hurts as no one has been held accountable for those killed in the bombing.

"It is a sentence that follows our people almost everywhere they have suffered," said Dodik.

Dodik emphasized the importance of marking this day, and reminded that it was not like this 10-12 years ago, since some wanted this to be forgotten, but the current president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and his associates prevented it.

According to him, the NATO alliance - a powerful monster, bombed the Serbs on two occasions, first in Republika Srpska, then in Serbia, doing it without hesitation, without valid international decisions.

"This still hurts today, the injustice hurts because the one who committed the crime has never been held accountable for it," Dodik repeated.

Tonight’s commemoration at the Military Airport "Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlović" in Batajnica will be attended by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, the prime minister and ministers in the Government of Serbia in caretaking capacity, ministers in the Republika Srpska Government, Speaker of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, and other dignitaries.

His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia served the memorial service to the killed in the NATO bombing with the concurrence of the clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

NATO's aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began on this day in 1999 in the evening hours, without the approval of the UN Security Council.

In 78 days of bombing, 1,031 members of the Army and the police were killed, as well as around 2,500 civilians, including 89 children.

About 6,000 civilians were wounded, 2,700 of whom were children, as well as 5,173 soldiers and policemen, 25 people went missing.

During the 11 weeks of aggression, there is almost no city in Serbia that was not targeted. NATO carried out 2,300 strikes and dropped 22,000 tons of missiles, including 37,000 banned cluster bombs and those with depleted uranium.