The Srebrenica Memorial Center has been closed until further notice due to the inability to provide adequate security guarantees for employees, collaborators, guests and visitors, according to their statement, reports the Bosnian newspaper "Detektor".
The Memorial Center emphasized that the safety of all involved must be paramount and that the Center will remain closed until the situation stabilizes and adequate guarantees are provided. Until then, all employees will perform their duties by working from home, if possible, to maintain the continuity of administrative and other operations, they emphasize in the press release, adding that they have made this decision “due to the ongoing coup d’état.”
"At a time when state institutions are retreating in the face of rebel elements in Banja Luka, I do not want to endanger anyone at the Memorial Center or the institution. I do not want to expose the grandchildren and children of those who survived or did not survive in July 1995 to the possibility of being harmed by someone inspired by the state's retreat in the face of the rebels," announced Emir Suljagić, director of the Memorial Center, via the social network "X".
The Memorial Center's statement, published on the "X" social network, states that this work organization will be temporary, until the conditions are met to return to regular activities, and that activities that may take place in other locations will continue, including the conference planned for March 11 in Sarajevo.
A political crisis has erupted in the country after a state court convicted Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, potentially banning him from office as president of Republika Srpska for six years.
In response, Dodik promised to ban the court, the prosecution, the state police agency SIPA and the Bosnian intelligence agency OSA from having any jurisdiction in Republika Srpska. On Friday, Dodik demanded that SIPA leave its premises in Banja Luka.
EU countries have strongly condemned Dodik's stance, accusing him of a serious violation of the constitutional order.