Echoes of Srebrenica. That echo, in fact, will not and must never stop. Twenty-five years since the monstrous genocide, a crime that still amazes the (normal) world today. The anniversary makes those quarter-century echoes a little more audible, although the memory of Srebrenica does not need a special date - it must be outside conventional experiences of that kind. As long as we are able to feel pain and shame about Srebrenica, we are human.
Each of the Srebrenica victims was not killed once, but countless times. Any shameful denial of the Srebrenica genocide is another killing of all those people. And so year after year...
I have never understood the need and passion to deny mega crimes, like the Srebrenica genocide. The one who does it, who does he believe he is helping? If he thinks he is helping his nation by doing so, he is wrong. Because, by addressing the blame on the nation, it hides the real (and convicted) culprits - by name and surname, down to one. People who do this usually cannot understand that they are defaming their own people.
For that kind of evil and human hell, we once thought it was possible only in Latin American magical realism as an expression of a gruesome political reality. And then it appeared in our yard. Balkan bloody hyperrealism.
Under the shadow of the corona, our reality and beyond the war hell of the nineties is starting to resemble some branches of Latin American reality from the time when writers from that part of the world described their village and described the continent.
In the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, that scenario, the recipe for the fascism of society, was always similar: you had an economic collapse brought about by a corrupt and irresponsible elite, followed by patriotic rhetoric, an orgy of populism, and finally - naked police torture. That's how it was in Latin America, and it's possible that you recognized some elements of that process, which would usually result in the establishment of some kind of military junta, in your own reality as well.
The case of police torture that came to light is interesting to me for another reason. When asked if they believe that similar things happen in Montenegro, almost everyone asked, usually with a gesture to express surprise that someone would even ask such a question, answered that they are sure that such torture happens. They know people. And "customs".
As long as society treats such manners as part of folklore, as something almost normal, this will happen to us.
The fact that only half of the existing hotels in Montenegro were opened in mid-July sounds creepy. So, in a country that largely lives on tourism. Because everything else - which used to make a living here - has been ruined. Well, the salt works, for example, are not working, and millions of salt are being imported. And so on. Such nonsense - how many grains of salt.
And that government's long-announced and ever-elusive Third Package is as mysterious and elusive as the Third Man, if anyone remembers the movie classic with Orson Welles...
Elections, however, and at any cost. Navrat, drift. Elections, at least "from the feet". Why? Why such urgency? When you look at the situation in Montenegro and the autumn economic projections, it becomes clear that there is probably no greater punishment than winning these elections.
Which, obviously, will not diminish the enthusiasm and desire to win of those who win all the time. Their projections of their own destinies, in case of defeat, give them immense motivation. For them, even in these circumstances, victory is necessary. And then what? Who will they blame for the state of society? To spark an epidemic…
Montenegro: what is a man without a choice?
We see that even religious communities were recommended to perform rituals without the presence of citizens.
If somehow the state could be run without the presence of citizens, there wouldn't be a happier government in the world.
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