January 9, 2025

Bosnian TV Editor ‘Threatened’ Over Srebrenica Symbol

Marko Radoja, editor-in-chief of Bosnian public broadcaster BHRT, said he received more than 200 threats after telling TV presenters not to wear flower symbols to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide anniversary.

Marko Radoja told local media that he has received more than 200 threats via email and social media after telling presenters on the channel not to wear badges with flower symbols to commemorate the victims of Srebrenica during last week’s anniversary of the 1995 massacres.

The BHRT editor-in-chief is currently under police protection, local media reported.

The public broadcaster’s management board decided on Monday not to dismiss Radoja after the BHRT workers’ union called for his dismissal over the decision.

The management board of BHRT said it will hold a new session after all the information about the case is submitted, but cautioned that it does not have the power to sack Radoja.

“Only the TV station’s general manager can dismiss the editor-in-chief,” management board member Zoran Kesic told media after the session on Monday.

The BHRT workers’ union had argued that Radoja showed bias and breached both BHRT’s statute and the law.

“BHRT’s editor-in-chief believes neutrality is the basic principle of journalism; however, the union believes that the basic journalistic principle is objectivity, and the verdicts of international courts should be an objective attitude for any public broadcasting service,” the union said in a press release on July 13.

The Srebrenica massacres have been classified as genocide by international court verdicts. But the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity do not regard the massacres as genocide; a view shared by the Serbian authorities.

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