February 2014 was a month of hope that the civil struggle will bring us change. But we experienced the opposite because Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) continued to sink into the abyss with its politicians. Nepotism and corruption are everyday occurrences, while citizens “fight” with them on social networks.
We all remember February 2014 as a month in which a small workers’ protest in Tuzla turned into mass demonstrations with thousands of participants in several BiH cities. Years of discontent culminated in a major uprising that resulted in the overthrow of several political parties.
However, everything that erupted in a flash became silent even faster, and a huge group of fighters for a better tomorrow, which we have not yet experienced, eight years later, was reduced to just a few activists who are still gathered in the Tuzla Canton (TC) Solidarity Union. The loudest among them is President Sakib Kopic, whose desire for justice has motivated him all these years.
“Eight years ago, the situation was bad and then we rebelled and started a revolution against a bad, corrupt, and criminal government. The situation is much worse today, but the opposite is happening because revolutions are taking place on social networks. We, as citizens of BiH, must first carry out the revolution in our head and how to implement what we want. The street is the only solution because without it there is no change, ” told Kopic.
”To lose the battle but win the war”
According to him, the government must be forced to work in the interest of the citizens because they elected it, and not in the personal or in the interest of tycoons from the political parties that lead them. He thinks that the citizens must wake up from their sleep, while, as he noted, the criminal government is completely trampling them.
“They can also be overthrown by force because we have examples of other countries where politicians are being thrown into containers by citizens. We have to apply that here as well, but we need to be united. The February protests failed because everyone pulled to their side and then they threw us plenums that were a political body, so everything is clear to us. They were deliberately made to blunt the edge of the protest, “ Kopic said.
If we lose a battle, it is still possible to win the war, it is the motto that Kopic is still using today, believing that better days will come in BiH.
At the end of the interview, Kopic sent a message to young people, inviting them to stay in BiH and fight for their future in a beautiful country that must finally get better moments.
E.Dz.
Source: klix.ba
