I wish I knew where those critics are now who have been warning me for years to miss the nineties, to drown myself in the story of the war for peace, that I should write about the present and the future... I answered, patiently but in vain, how are we the present is like this precisely because of those nineties. And how the future will be even darker, if we do not illuminate our role in that war and face our guilt.
When I say mine, I mean the state's fault. When I say state, I mean depees as its owner for thirty years.
But he lost his ownership rights before the citizens' court? Yes, but now he is using the right to appeal, referring to the acquisition of property rights through maintenance.
A state cannot be legal without a valid legal basis? It cannot, but there is no such autocratic regime that has given up without a bullet what it acquired by force, fraud or abuse of trust.
That's why the Depees, the grandmasters of force and fraud and the majority representatives of Montenegrins, behave like Serbian radicals during the war on the streets. And the Front members, the majority representatives of the Serbs, are copying the young, beautiful and smart people from the beginning of the nineties in the parliament.
Absurd? Yes, but neither the first nor the last.
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If the weak three-party government continues to prey on the pranks of the strong opposition with this intensity, Montenegro will very quickly find itself in an even more absurd situation of tragic proportions.
Of course, I do not foresee a war, although armed clashes on a smaller scale cannot be completely ruled out.
When I say tragic, I mean the very certain possibility that those who declared themselves the liberators of Montenegro on August 30 will enable the autocratic regime to return to power.
With great chances that the autocracy will turn into a dictatorship for another thirty years. And longer, if Aleksandar Vučić avoids all 1389 assassinations before the end of the Kosovo battle...
Why did I involve him in this story? Because he interfered himself, just as he was saying that "Serbia does not interfere in the internal affairs of Montenegro"...
Absurd? Yes, but neither the first nor the last...
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Well, that's the usual diplomatic message? It would be, if we didn't know who was saying it. And that there is no usual "but we will continue to help the Serbian people in that country"...
After which follows not only the announcement of the classic interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, but also a specific instruction against what and whom the Serbs in Montenegro should fight:
- All citizens of Serbia should know that we have already pretty much learned that from Montenegro they go to the celebration of the Storm, that every time they have to listen well and listen carefully to what the representatives of NATO, the State Department and Brussels tell them, and that they go a little less often or not at all they need to hear what Belgrade says...
I don't have reliable data for the citizens of Serbia, but I have no doubt that Vučić does a great job playing a bad student. Which NATO member does not listen carefully to the views of his own alliance and the strongest military power in it...
And why does Montenegro hear well what they say to it from Brussels and does not have to hear what Belgrade tells it?
Well, because they want to join the European Union and not Serbia...
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Vučić knows this, but he cannot regret it. And he will never regret biting his tongue in 2016 for just one day, not a year.
- Serbia does not interfere in the internal affairs of Montenegro - he said then. Only that the message behind his usual "but" was different - its entry into NATO cannot have a bad effect on the relations between the two states...
Not only did the said entry not bother him, it sped him up. Not that he did not permanently bite his tongue, but he bit the heart of all Serbs in Montenegro.
If he personally and his BIA had not been the henchmen of Milo Đukanović then, Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević would never have found themselves in the courtroom as terrorists, let alone been sentenced to five years in prison...
The fact that they personally forgave him is their problem. But the fact that they and many of their followers have forgotten whose early works were studied by Aleksandar Vučić is increasingly becoming a big problem for Montenegro... And not only politically...
- Serbia does not interfere in the internal affairs of Croatia - said the then Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević three decades ago - but we will continue to help the Serbian people in that country.
How the Serbs in Croatia fared after generous incentives from Belgrade to fight against Tuđman's regime has been clear for a long time.
However, it is difficult to understand what motivates the persistent announcement of further aid - whatever that means - to the Serbs in Montenegro when they have already been in power for half a year. And that in the executive branch - which leads domestic and foreign policy - at least two-thirds...
Absurd? Yes, but neither the first nor the last...
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The freshest absurdity are these gatherings of defenders of the image and work of Vladimir Leposavic, on social networks, in the media and on the street. The morbid construction of a genocidal people is now hitting the heads of those whose leaders created it.
The first time I heard about it was when, during the rebellion of the Serbs in Kninska Krajina, part of the Serbian literary elite in the homeland and diaspora declared the words Ustasha and Croat to be synonyms. A genocidal people, I read the statements of some writers in reading books at the time...
Not long after, the "genocide of the Croats" turned into a post card in the Serbian parliament. Much less often in Montenegrin, and only until Svetozar Marović took over the presidency...
At that time, he could not yet influence the state media, RTCG was edited by President Momir Bulatović, and Pobjeda by Prime Minister Milo Đukanović...
The descriptive adjective genocidal, as far as I remember, was not used publicly. But - like other representatives of Serbian politics at the time - they did not distance themselves from him.
That descriptive adjective became more and more dangerous over the years and returned like a boomerang to the representatives of the ideology of its creators.
Unfortunately, not only them. But even those who were prevented by baptism from remembering the war, and who were prevented by the three-decade education system of the Depees from learning the truth about the war where they should...
That is why today, while defending Minister Leposavic, they simultaneously shout that the Serbs are not a genocidal nation and that Karadzic and Mladic are not war criminals. Not realizing that the two claims are mutually exclusive...
Absurd? Yes, but neither the first nor the last...
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Of course, Serbs are not a genocidal people. Not because they are better than others, but because there are no genocidal nations. There are only genocidal policies, and they are not inherited genetically.
Yes, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, Zdravko Tolimir, Radislav Krstić, Drago Nikolić, Ljubiša Beara... - committed genocide in Srebrenica. The fact that they are all Serbs does not mean that all Serbs are guilty of genocide.
No normal person claims that, those who think like that belong in a psychiatric clinic, and those who speak - in prison.
I have never heard any public figure in Montenegro say that Serbs are a genocidal nation, and I don't believe that all Montenegrin media would keep silent about such a statement.
These days I hear it, of course with the prefix "no", exclusively from those public figures who, formally minimizing, relativizing or completely denying the genocide in Srebrenica, essentially defend - the war criminals.
By defending the guilty, the guilt for genocide and all other war crimes is shifted to the entire nation.
That is why it is very dangerous to draw the conclusion from the premise that all criminals are not convicted that those who are convicted are not guilty.
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And the messages of some of the ruling parties, numerous public figures and the most numerous "commentators" on social networks are reduced to those three sentences.
We do not give Vladimir Leposavic. We do not agree to be a genocidal people. Karadžić, Mladić and others are not war criminals.
By challenging the legitimacy of the Hague Tribunal, which both linguistically and legally implies the non-recognition of its judgments, the minister first collected the blame and left room for it to be attributed to the entire nation and not to specific individuals.
Those who are defending him now have the right not to understand it, but the Minister of Justice does not. The fact that he is not resigning (yet), no matter how he explains it, can only mean one thing: that - defending his position, or his pride, or whatever - he is ready to pit all his supporters against the rest of Montenegro.
If he does not leave before the first session of the Assembly, he himself will admit that the scandal regarding Srebrenica did not happen spontaneously. And it will not be useful for him to defend himself as he was provoked by those whose policies paved the way for genocide.
There is no provocateur who can provoke a doctor of international law and minister of justice to say that even the International Court of Justice does not recognize it.
This is the same court that confirmed the verdicts of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia that genocide was committed in Srebrenica. And thus forever freed the Serbs from Serbia from possible imposition of responsibility for that crime.
- Serbia did not commit genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not participate in the conspiracy, nor was it an accomplice in the genocide - it is the decision of the Court of Justice that precisely prevents the collectivization of guilt.
Following that decision, Serbs from the Republika Srpska entity were also exempted from collectivization:
- The perpetrators of the genocide are the RS Army under the command of Ratko Mladić and other convicts, as well as the paramilitary unit "Scorpions"...
Vladimir Leposavic knew all that and much more before he caused the government crisis.
Now that it is turning into a parliamentary one, no one in Montenegro - except for Depees, of course - knows what a crisis like this can turn into.
And outside of it? Well, I don't know that, ask Minister Leposavic...
PS Did I say at the beginning that the autocratic regime, despite the defeats in the elections, does not let go of power without bullets... The fire caused by the story of genocide, which the government somehow tries to keep under control, depees is now fanning with citizenship and residence. Without even trying to hide how, by trading citizenship and residence, he managed to destroy Montenegro for thirty years. And that he is ready to do that for thirty more, if God supports these planes from Luxembourg...
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