Parliament of Republika Srpska (YouTube screenshot)
Republika Srpska's assembly passed on July 30 a new law, rejecting High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko's decision to impose a law on banning the denial of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia.
The new law has three articles which say that the amendments to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Inzko imposed, will not apply in RS, and that the Bosnian Serb entity's authorities would not cooperate with the corresponding bodies in Bosnia in implementing the genocide denial law.
The assembly also passed amendments to the Bosnian Criminal Code, prescribing prison sentences of up to 15 years for anyone who calls Republika Srpska a genocidal aggressor or the Serb people genocidal.
Seventy-three out of 83 MPs attended the assembly's special session of whom 70 supported the new legislation. Three members of the Coalition for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which consists of political groups headquartered in the Muslim-Croat Federation, voted against it. The session was attended by the presidents of Republika Srpska's parliamentary political parties.
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