Red carpet, applause and godfatherism for a genocide denier

Genocide denier at the Sharia wedding of Bakir Izetbegović's daughter. He is not an ordinary guest, moreover, he is a witness from the bride's side, or what they would call the best man. The leader of the Democratic Action Party and the son of Alija Izetbegović even thanked the dear guest who not only denies the genocide, but whoever says it was genocide, sends him straight to prison. Someone ended up two meters underground, like Hrant Dink, a journalist killed in front of his newsroom in broad daylight, just because he spoke openly about the genocide.

Sarajevo, the city that retracted its own decision to declare Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk as an honorary citizen - formally because he did nothing for the city on Miljacka and practically because he spoke publicly about the genocide - welcomed genocide deniers with open arms and open hearts on Baščaršija.

The chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšić, hosted a reception for a genocide denier, despite the fact that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, in which Komšić claims to have been baptized, Pope Francis said that it was a genocide. Another member of the BiH presidency, Šefik Džaferović, was also happy for the genocide denier, despite the fact that he constantly repeats that denying the genocide is an anti-civilization act.

The Serbian member of the presidency, Milorad Dodik, was also happy for the guest, but that is not a surprise, genocide deniers recognize each other, "like rejoices with like" as the ancient Romans would say. That is why Dodik proposed that the denier of genocide take one of the main roles in solving the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The law of Valentin Inck, the former high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the prohibition of denial of genocide does not apply to the high-ranking guest. And how would he do it, Europe has already allowed him everything: he persecutes an entire nation, arrests opposition leaders, commits aggression against other sovereign states, occupies a third of the territory of an EU member state.

Not only BiH cheerfully and joyfully welcomed the genocide denier, Montenegro did the same. President Milo Đukanović, President of the Assembly Aleksa Bečić, Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić, Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović all lined up to receive the intentional traveler, as if only a few months had passed since the adoption of the resolution prohibiting the denial of genocide. Even part of the citizens of Cetinje took to the streets to applaud the denier of genocide walking with the man who wanted to be the "master of the mountains and the sea".

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and his colleague Zoran Zaev always look forward to the genocide denier. Everyone envies the genocide denier for something: Vučić's international role and firm sitting on all four chairs, American, European, Chinese and Russian, Rama would bring order to the opposition and the media in the name of the genocide denier, and Zaev and Izetbegović would love to manage a multi-ethnic state like him, while Đukanović regrets that he does not have the constitutional authority to appoint all officials personally: from the prime minister, ministers and heads of the secret services to principals of elementary schools.

Someone will say that "realpolitik", a term shared by Cardinal Richelieu, Count Cavour and Otto von Bismarck or, more precisely, the German writer Ludwig von Rohau, dictates that national or personal interests are more important than worldviews and achievements of civilization and that statesmen and high officials they often have to, as the Italians would say, give an acceptable face to an ugly game (facciamo buon viso a cattivo gioco).

However, what will we do with the others: politicians, non-governmental organizations, journalists, intellectuals. In the previous months and years, we read, watched and listened to tons of texts, hours and hours of television and radio shows. Where have all those standard-bearers of European values, human rights, and humanity, ready to share lessons, disappeared? Where have all the luminaries and luminaries gone, with tears in their eyes, trembling voices and tragic facial expressions?

When the "grandmother" to whom Alija entrusted her land for safekeeping, Belgrade opened its doors wide for him to invest, Tirana let him build the largest mosque in the Balkans, and Podgorica let him buy real estate from the Russians on the foam of the sea, he denies the genocide, everyone is silent and silent.

Not only has no one asked a genocide denier, "was there genocide?", but no one has written even two sentences, let alone made a television or radio show, or even a podcast. No one wanted to derange a genocide denier, not even, relatively speaking, domestic genocide deniers.

"If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable," wrote Thomas More, the father of humanism. In some new "Utopia", people who selectively choose which genocides they will recognize and which they will not, would be despised and called by their true name - hypocrites. Honor has not been profitable for half a millennium since Moore's death, but that is why hypocrisy is so profitable, even when it comes to the most terrible crimes.

Pope Francis called the Armenian genocide the first in the 20th century, because it was followed by genocides in the USSR (Holodomor), the Third Reich (Holocaust), the so-called To the Independent State of Croatia, Indonesia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda...

There are people in the hilly Balkans who recognize all crimes against humanity, including the worst form of genocide, regardless of who is the executioner and who is the victim: whether they happened in America, Africa, Australia, Asia, or our European and Balkan countries. Evil is universal, not national. Whoever denies one genocide essentially denies all genocides. Anyone who compares genocides relativizes history, trivializes human evil and makes a mockery of the suffering of innocent people.

The behavior of the political and other elites in the Western Balkans towards genocide deniers, regardless of which side they came from and which genocides they denied or tolerated by the society of genocide deniers, indicates that all South Slavic peoples are one and the same piece of cow dung that was accidentally cut by the cart wheel. Tick ​​dixit.