It was cynicism in its purest, essential form: the stage spectacle of commemorating the Day of Remembrance of the Expelled and Murdered Serbs - on the twenty-eighth anniversary of the "military-police operation Storm" and the persecution of the Serbian population from Croatia - was organized in Prijedor, precisely on the spot of one of the worst persecutions of the non-Serb population in all four Balkan wars, in which more than three thousand Bosniaks and Croats were killed in 1992, including a hundred children - moreover, in a place that, due to the famous decree of the municipal authorities on the obligation to wear a white ribbon from in April 1992 became a symbol of the Nazi persecutions of the nineties.
As things stand now - there is no more room for doubts or scruples - the memorial for the thirtieth anniversary of the Storm in 2025 will be held in Srebrenica.
The level of cynicism with which such things were raised with a symbolic memorial for the Serbian victims of the Storm at the place of suffering of the Bosniaks and Croats of Prijedor was incredibly ambitious and completely unexplored to this day. That everything that can happen in such an unknown, inaccessible and hostile terrain would happen was not only possible, but also inevitable: everything that happened there in that desert had to happen and eventually had to happen, precisely because - cynicism and symbolism is a fucked up thing - it actually wanted to happen.
And what happened could, had, should, and wanted to happen is what will be taught in the future on courses for handling cynical symbols: while the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, and the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, are a mixture of righteous anger and Serbienweltschmerk - and all under the tutelage of His Holiness the Patriarch of Serbia Porfirija from the first row of the ground floor - lamenting over the two hundred thousand Serbs exiled from Croatia, sorry SAO Krajina, from the video wall behind them, on which the terrible scenes of the XNUMXth pogrom were projected, the cosmically sad eyes of Sabina Mujkić, a Muslim exiled from Žepa, looked at them.
This is how the fusion of cynicism and symbolism works: Milorad Dodik, Aleksandar Vučić and Patriarch Porfirije symbolically wanted to bow to the victims of persecution twenty-eight years ago in Prijedor, so they symbolically bowed to the victims of persecution twenty-eight years ago in Prijedor. The official explanation, for example, will be that the giant photo of Sabine Mujkić with her daughter in her arms and her little son by her side - which was photographed by Agence France-Presse reporter Joël Robin in the summer of 1995 when fleeing from the UN protected enclave in Žepa in front of Serbian forces - on the video wall behind Dodik's and Vucic's backs, broadcast by an unfortunate mistake. On the unexplored plateaus of cynicism, however, there are no unfortunate mistakes: everything that happens there, I remind you, could, had and should have happened, precisely because it actually wanted to happen.
For the sake of a stronger effect, not only a photo of an exiled Bosniak woman with her children was broadcast in the middle of the commemoration of the Serbian victims in the Storm, but a photo of an exiled Bosniak woman with her children was broadcast in the middle of Milorad Dodik's speech about why the very place where the Bosnians suffered was chosen to commemorate the Day of Remembrance of the expelled and murdered Serbs. .
"Let's say to all those who say that they can understand that the Serbs from Krajina celebrated the anniversary, but why Republika Srpska and Serbia: well, monkeys, because this is a Serbian nation, which was expelled from Krajina, and because this is Serbian the state Republika Srpska, and because you killed our people! Neither Vučić nor I came here to disparage any of those who suffered and are not the same as us!" Milorad Dodik roared while an unhappy Sabina with a child in her arms was looking at him from behind the video wall, that is to say, "those who suffered and they are not the same as us".
If the direction of the stage spectacle commemorating Remembrance Day in Prijedor had been entrusted to Oliver Frljić or, even better, Zlatko Paković, it would not have turned out more effectively. It wouldn't for the simple reason that for such a demonic prank you need to have a demonic mind, which my friends don't have. Demons, namely, live on that desolate cynical plateau that only Dodik, Vučić and Porfirije can reach.
The matter is empirically provable. What, for example, are the real chances that a living person will, by a so-called "mere mistake", choose the photo of the exiled Bosniak woman from Žepa among the hundreds of thousands of photos of the persecution of Serbs from August 1995? The point is not only in the symbolic power of the mathematical equation according to which all mother's eyes in the world are the same. This is true without any doubt, but the math is exact and inexorable: Sabina Mujkić fleeing from the Serbian forces, together with her daughter in her arms and her son, who at that time was barely a year younger than the shooting age, was captured by an AFP photographer. On July 27, 1995, exactly one week before four hundred kilometers to the west - and symbolically at the same latitude and the same forty-fourth north parallel - the great exodus of Serbs from Knin will begin.
So much for symbolic parallels. And about what was before. We have not seen a more effective and precise interpretation of the history of the nineties and the events before the Storm - which are being systematically forgotten by the cynical Days of Remembrance - in all the past twenty-eight years. Sabina Mujkić's eyes on the stage in Prijedor emerged straight from that bottomless and deaf black hole in Serbian memory before August 5, 1995.
On the demonic plateaus of cynicism, symbolism, as we see, is unforgiving. Even the aforementioned official explanation, let's say, fantastically convincingly explained the symbolic parallel of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Storm and the Day of Remembrance for All Other Victims.
A day or two after the apparition of Sabina Mujkić in Prijedor, an explanation came from the Ministry of Labor and Veterans and Disability Protection of the Republic of Srpska: the agency Pozitiv from Belgrade was in charge of the projections on the video wall placed on the stage in Prijedor. Which, by the way, was hired for that occasion by the Government of the Republic of Serbia. In short, if someone does not already understand the language of the Hague Tribunal for war crimes, here is a nice and clear statement written in the symbolic language of demons, so that the whole of Serbia can understand it: the Government of the Republic of Serbia, i.e. the experts who are responsible for the whole matter with the exiled Sabina Mujkić, is responsible found a job in Belgrade.
So much, I said, for symbolic parallels.
Well then, let's say to Milorad Dodik and all those who say they can understand that some individual from the Serbian people has bloodied his hands, but why the Republika Srpska and Serbia: well, one monkey, because they actively participate in both the amnesty and the amnesty of Serbian war crimes from the XNUMXs Republika Srpska and Serbia, just as they actively participated in their organization. Because this is the Serbian state Republika Srpska, and because you exiled Sabina Mujkić!
Neither Sabina nor her children appeared in Prijedor to belittle any of those who suffered, and they are not the same as them. They are only there to remind them.
You monkey.
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