Why is this
title true?
In short, the title is true because they refuse to act while peace is holding on by the
fingertips and everyone can tell.
Peace in
Bosnia was brought by Dayton Peace Accord (Dayton); i.e. 1992-95 war ended when
Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia signed this ridiculous document. Any sane person
should have laughed at Dayton. The document doesn’t know if it wants to go left
or right, sit or stand. It guarantees soverginity, territorial integrity and
political independence to Bosnia, but trust it to people who carried out ethnic
cleansing in attempt to destroy Bosnia. It believes that safety of Bosnia is
ensured if we equalise all armies: The legitimate army of Bosnia, dedicated
(like every other army of any country) to defend Bosnia, and two gorilla forces
one acting on behalf of and under the command of Croatia, the other on behalf
of and under the command of Serbia – this is why signature of Serbia and
Croatia could stop a war in Bosnia. So, equalising legitimate armed forces with
illegitimate armed force acting to destroy the country become one armed force.
This armed force is sort of doing okay, but as soon as politicians decide to ‘make
a move’ what can a rational person expect from this armed force?
Timing of
Dayton was also very interesting. Three years of mass killing, politicians met
and accomplished nothing at all. During these three years Bosnian legitimate
army faced arms embargo. Forces acting on behalf of Serbia and Croatia had
their supply of weapons from Serbia and Croatia. It is also worth noting that
at the beginning of the war, many people in Bosnia thought that it made no
difference if they join the Army of Bosnia or the Croat forces since they had
mutual enemy – ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’; no it is not! This ‘friendship’
changed in 1993 when politics in Croatia changed. So, at the beginning Bosnian
army fought mainly with weapons they stole from their enemy.
Come 1995,
soon after the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnian army becomes strong enough to
put up a fair fight. Suddenly Dayton emerges! The war is stopped, or at least
paused. Political war carried on and people of Bosnia have been suffering it
for 20 years. The psychological torment they face cannot be explained.
Bosnia is a
country of four million people, fourteen governments, plus over 140
municipalities. It has three presidents, each one has to be chosen by a
particular group of people: one for Bosniaks, one for Croats and one for Serbs.
In the last elections which were held in 2014 the three presidents combined
couldn’t scrape up 20% of the votes of the voting body in Bosnia. But
apparently, we have democracy and these guys are ‘legitimate’ representatives
of Bosnia – of course they are, they made the Elections Act to make sure they
can’t lose, however, European politicians refuse to take this into
consideration. They refuse to accept that our ‘legitimate’ representatives were
chosen by their friends, family and employees – oh yeah, Bosnian government in
the biggest employer in Bosnia. Plus, they buy votes.
These three
presidents are yet to agree on anything, and of course not, two of them want
Bosnia deleted off the map and they use it to help neighbouring countries, the
third is there just to see if he can scrape up something for himself. Evidence
of this also lies in the fact that they have allowed ‘entities’ to get more
power – Bosnia has two entities, one is Serbian, the ethnically cleansed part,
and the other is federation of Bosniaks and Croats (yes, in Bosnia, if you kill
innocent people on mass scale you will be rewarded). In fact, Bosnia has 13
ministers for most things, such as healthcare. For something to happen in
favour of healthcare in Bosnia, all 13 have to agree. Bosnia doesn’t have a
strategy for healthcare simply because Serbian entity refuses to have one. No
other reason. And then, these smart politicians in EU tell us how we can act on
politicians at ‘local’ level – they mean entities and cantons (entity of
Federation is divided into 10 cantons). This is such a ridiculous idea, that I’m
lost for words, but we tried it anyway just to please the ‘heads’. One year of
chasing a piece of paper from one door to the next made me want to scream. And
this was just to get our government to employ a designated vet to sort out the
stray dogs. We failed. The only time citizen activism has any chance in Bosnia
is when a group in that local area who have the right to vote in that area
raises a question and we ALL support them. End even then it is not a guarantee.
Why? Because the government in Bosnia has power in numbers! Plus power in
money, they own the labour market, they own the courts of law, they even own
the local communities. What we have in Bosnia is not democracy but something
between feudalism and dictatorship.
EU turns a
blind eye! You might wonder, why should EU get involved? Because someone was
smart enough to add OHR to Dayton. While EU politicians praise themselves on Annex
7 which states that refugees must be permitted to return to their place of
origin (women who were gang raped multiple times and on regular basis in
concentration camps in 1992, met their rapists on the streets when they returned
to Prijedor after the war and had to endure being laughed at by the same
rapists, and if that wasn’t enough, those who have returned to this day do not
have basic human rights), the real good part is Annex ten about the High
Representative who has more power in Bosnia than the government of Bosnia, I
guess because there was at least one reasonable person at the table when Dayton
was written of they left this ‘life boat’ in case the iceberg that is Dayton,
sunk a country that is Titanic. But, instead of getting involved, EU has
decided they are not going to. According to Dayton, they are there to ensure
fair and democratic elections in Bosnia – they failed MISERABLY!!!
Citizens of
Bosnia do not want to be divided. Large majority can tell that the situation is
leading to a war. After the floods last year citizens realised that we do not
have a government. So, citizens do not want to be divided, but Dayton is made
so that those in power cannot stay in power unless citizens are divided. Of
course, they push for divisions. They push to get people to hate one another.
Bosnia, like every country in the world, has extremists and lunatics. In other
countries governments make sure that those people do not have power. In Bosnia,
politicians of those same countries have inflicted a system that drives
divisions and gives power to the ‘lunatics and fascists’. Now, they refuse to
act even though they have the right and responsibility.
We keep
being told that citizens must do more. More of what?! What should we do? Tells
us exactly what we should do because we are at the stage where we regret
letting international community into Bosnia in the 1990s. The war would have
been our deal, we would have dealt with it, they just made things worse.
We are
being told that this is our problem? Oh really, funny that Dayton is in English
and only English. If it were something we chose, surely it would be a document that
people of Bosnia could at least read let alone understand?
What should
be done? It is a country of 4 million people. Activists in Bosnia have a joke:
We don’t need a president, we need a major. For now, one government
democratically elected (one person one vote), municipalities and an Act of
Treason. Five years from now we’ll come back to the table to see what else we
could do to make it even better. But for now, stop dilly-dallying! You are
putting our lives at risk! People of Bosnia have tolerated Dayton for 20 years,
they can tolerate anything and survive anything but a war. And it seems the EU
is hell-bent on causing another war in Bosnia. Why?! To help our politicians
escape justice for all that they have done? Are you part of what they have
done?
Please
act!!! There is no need for bloodshed when pen can fix this.
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