Where are our institutions, especially the police and judiciary? World officials are also wondering this, but especially those who, after surviving the genocide, are once again faced with fears and horrors. The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina states that it has received thousands of e-mails, while none of the police – cantonal, entity and state – have filed a report on their official duty. Who are the citizens left to? Obviously to themselves, while after everything they are additionally hurt by the encounter with Kapia, Ferhadija and thousands of other locations where atrocities were committed, but also the fact that these atrocities are honored, while those who should sanction them do nothing.
Revisionist plays
One suitcase. A dead war criminal. The political and religious top of Serbia and the RS around him. Today, Belgrade is not only a place of burial, but also a place of political message, part of which Željka Cvijanović, Milorad Dodik, Nenad Stevandić, Savo Minić and other RS officials chose to be part of the parahistory in which Mladić is a hero, not a war criminal.
For them it is a farewell, and for the victims a confirmation that the verdict of the international court is not the end of the fight for the truth.
“I don’t know whose funeral they are going to – a war criminal who killed so many people,” said Mejra Đogaz, a victim of genocide.
Ratko Mladić, the architect of the genocide, is dead. But the ideology that produced it is not dead either. This is a mirror of the regime that does not put an end to revisionism, but keeps it alive – from hiding from justice, murals, glorification and reawakening of Chetnik ideology from the stadium to the highest state and military honors.
Instead of silence, the choice is a revisionist play with an accompanying scenography, heroization and collective anti-civilizational revulsion – and live.
The only reaction from the states came from BH Telecom, which stopped broadcasting RTRS and ATV programs from Mladić’s funeral, which Telemach also did later.
“It is our responsibility that the BH Telecom platform does not serve as a channel for content that may represent the promotion or glorification of a legally convicted war criminal, nor that our actions contribute to the relativization of legally established facts or additional violation of the dignity of victims and their families,” BH Telecom announced.
The institutions are silent
It should have done this, but not the Communications Regulatory Agency, from which we did not receive a response to our inquiry, and from which the OSCE, concerned about the glorification of a war criminal, is requesting a review of the RTRS broadcast program.
The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina says that it is not competent and will not raise the issue of political responsibility of those who seek votes from the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They state, however, that they will forward all reports to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has not even announced anything in the past ten days, let alone prosecuted anyone.
“It is tragic that the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina is silent, that it does nothing. There are some henchmen and cowards sitting there who are not allowed to do their job,” says Fikret Grabovica, president of the Association of Parents of Murdered Children of the Siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995.
“If they had done their job, I am convinced that none of the leaders of the RS would be in Belgrade today. However, they did not want to do their job. They have the right and the opportunity to correct themselves, when this entourage returns from Belgrade, to arrest them all and put them in prison,” said Murat Tahirović, president of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide.
Thousands of applications without police reports
However, we received a response from the State Prosecutor’s Office: “Several thousand e-mails from citizens were received, in which certain posts or comments on social networks or in the media space, which these citizens consider controversial, were reported. Several reports were also received from natural persons or representatives of political parties or political entities”, according to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Apart from the fact that the Prosecutor’s Office has just received the reports, this answer opens another question: what are the police doing to us? Because the State Prosecutor’s Office, believe it or not, has not received any report on the committed criminal act.
In 1992, 26 Sarajevo civilians were killed and 108 wounded in a bread queue on Vase Miskina Street. The queue was filled with hungry people while Sarajevo was under siege, for which, among other things, Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life in prison.
Today, while numerous officials attended his funeral and his image and deeds are being glorified, this street remains a silent reminder of what must not be kept silent. Behind every hero, and every war criminal convicted, there are victims, and behind every bow to a criminal, a warning to the judiciary that their silence has consequences, Federalna writes.
