"In 1996, Dodik was among the rare politicians in RS who publicly claimed that [war crimes indictee Radovan] Karadzic and Ratko Mladic must be brought to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague," says Tanja Topic, a political analyst at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Banja Luka.
"Dodik je 1996. bio jedan od rijetkih političara u RS-u koji je javno govorio kako [optuženik za ratne zločine Radovan] Karadžić i Ratko Mladić moraju biti privedeni pred UN-ov tribunal za ratne zločine u Haagu", kaže Tanja Topić, politički analitičar zaklade Friedrich Ebert u Banja Luci.