Embed

Seeking Recognition: Republika Srpska

Bosnian Serbs’ unindependent state, stuck in Western-imposed limbo

RTD’s documentary about Republika Srpska goes off the tourist track with this rare glimpse into the “entity” through which Bosnia’s 1.3 million Serbs govern themselves within the country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

RTD gives Bosnian Serbs the chance to tell their side of the story about the War and its aftermath. Recent President Milorad Dodik shares his frustration with Western double standards in opposing Serbian independence. Darko Mladic, the son of Butcher-or-hero, General Ratko Mladic, and wartime Parliamentary Speaker and ex-convict, Moncilo Krajicek. Both speak of bias at the ICTY Court in the Hague. In Andricgrad, the city of culture he founded, the legendary director, Emir Kusturica shares his hopes of bringing healing to the region through education.

Republika Srpska was born when Yugoslavia fell apart, and Bosnian Serbs refused to become an ethnic minority within the newly-independent Bosnia-Herzegovina. This led to the bloody war in Bosnia between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks. The wounds of the conflict are still raw and prevent Bosnian Serbs from moving ahead with their lives. / Archive footage from Republika Srpska Radio and Television.

Subscribe to get stories the mainstream media ignores: Subscribe RTD's Youtube

WATCH FILM
Please rate this film

8.94(17 users)

Duration

1:10

Tags

don't miss

26:33
Investigation 19 April 2023 12:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rise of the Caliphate. How jihadists exploited the collapse of Yugoslavia

26:33
History 28 December 2022 12:00

Bosnia: Victims of Jihad. Serb victims of the Bosnian genocide speak up

26:33
Personalities 01 July 2011 00:00

The Other Life of Radovan Karadzic

26:33
Society 11 August 2023 12:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina: European jihad. Whose agenda is to turn the country into a military base for radical Islam?

26:33
Politics 30 June 2022 12:00

Serbia’s Choice. Serbia forced by the West to cut ties with Russia

26:33
Society 17 May 2019 00:19

Game over the Border . Will migrants from Bosnia's refugee camps reach the EU?

26:33
Society 29 April 2013 00:00

The Republic of Texas. Inside the controversial secession movement that wants their home state to be independent

26:33
Society 19 June 2015 00:00

The Kosovo Exodus. Kosovo migrants look for a better life in Europe

26:33
Politics 31 August 2022 19:00

Serbia: Signs of War . The stark future of the Kosovo conflict

26:33
Military and War 08 August 2013 00:00

Act of War. Georgia-Ossetia war, the bloodiest conflict in the post-Soviet history.

26:33
History 24 August 2018 00:00

The Hidden War . History of tensions between Georgia and breakaway South Ossetia & Abkhazia

26:33
Military and War 08 August 2018 00:00

Georgia’s Gamble Revisited . South Ossetia's war victims, 10 years later of trying to heal

26:33
Arts and Culture 28 November 2016 00:00

Daniela, Princess of Guca. The highs and lows of a Serbian trumpet band

26:33
Military and War 01 September 2021 17:00

Fascism: A History. A vicious ideology before and after Hitler

26:33
Politics 02 August 2023 12:00

Mali: Au Revoir, France. Mali fights to shake off the burden of French colonisation

26:33
Politics 10 March 2014 00:00

Kiev. Masks of revolution. Behind the barricades at Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution

26:33
Politics 30 September 2015 00:00

EU for U. Shattered EU dreams of Ukrainians in Poland

26:33
Politics 14 July 2017 00:00

Soft Occupation. Investigating America’s influence on German politics

26:33
Politics 06 November 2017 00:00

Revolution: 100 years young. Lenin’s socialist vision in capitalist world

26:33
Personalities 27 March 2012 00:00

Philby's choice. A story of a legendary british Intellgence officer, who helped USSR

VIEWER’S CHOICE: 1,000,000 VIEWS AND MORE

VIEW ALL