Karlo B. and Milan K.

In some other circumstances, this story would be another tragicomic story about the wickedness of politicians who do not choose the means or the way to gain another political point at any cost. That farcical moment in the specific case of Karl B. and Milan K. is lost in the face of the fact that according to the verdicts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), more than 8.000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in the genocide in Srebrenica. .

I can't justify Bocola, but I understand to some extent. In his mature years, a man who always longed for some adventures, wanted to buy five minutes of fame among his Montenegrins, pardon the Serbs from Montenegro. He got the chance and he recited his story, which, for the sake of truth, you can hear after midnight in every better Serbian tavern. Even when he was only asked to swear in front of Milan K., no documents, no evidence, only his word against theirs, oh my, the never-ending serfdom.

And there was no shortage of merriment as they were laughing over the bombastic headlines in the pro-Serbian media. Nevertheless, a special kind of fraternal love washed over them when they saw the title block of the Bar portal that sublimated this whole performance: "A GREAT CONFESSION HAS ARRIVED FROM THE UN: There was no genocide in Srebrenica, it's all a montage".

I also understand Knežević. Essentially, his views coincide to a large extent with Bocola's, but he has to restrain himself, to be feminine, to be more discreet.

"I do not deny that a crime took place. For me, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić are state and military officials from the period of that bloody civil war. I will not say that they are heroes. Unfortunately, they found themselves in a tragic situation like ours. people," Knežević said on June 29, 2021.

So, according to Milan K., there are crimes but there are no criminals. Only two "state and military officials" who found themselves in a tragic situation.

Karlo Bocola is, however, more honest than Milan Knežević if in this case we can even talk in those categories. Karlo B. uses a mix of reality and patriotic science fiction to construct a deeply fraudulent picture of what happened in Srebrenica, but he personally stands behind this attempt to minimize the suffering of Bosniaks and challenge the genocide. Milan K., on the other hand, doesn't have the courage to announce "new facts and details related to the events in Srebrenica in 1995" himself, but he is subverting the cowardly "Italian from Danilovgrad". And he will, so that the Vlachs don't find out, only that Boccola's "knowledge" will be forwarded to Vučić, Dodik and Spajić in order to help them unselfishly in the fight against the adoption of the resolution on Srebrenica in the United Nations.

And when it comes to answering unpleasant questions regarding the claims of the "high representative of the UN", his PR team tells Vijesti - you see it with Bocola.

That "ingenuity" of Bruce Lee from Zeta is actually nothing original or new. That ancient PR technique has been used by Knežević's guru Aleksandar Vučić for quite some time, only he does it in a different way. In Serbia, in various tabloids on a daily basis, you have at least three "bocolas" who say much more disgusting things about the war in Bosnia on Pink, Milomir Marić's or pro-regime tabloids. Vučić, however, rarely or never stands directly behind those claims, as Milan K did in this case. The President of Serbia knows from time to time that in his countless public appearances he even distances himself in a certain way. "I wouldn't agree with that," he often announced with the obligatory grimace of a deeply concerned patriot. This is followed by a "but if you ask me" and an elaboration that actually only gives a general context to the thesis that Serbs are always victims, never executioners. Milan K. was obviously not in class when this lesson was in Vučić's schedule, so as the most ordinary patriot - a novice amateur, he got stuck in this episode with Bocola, the "high representative of the UN".

I believe that Milan K. will quickly master this material as well. He is young, he has a good teacher and, thank God and Vučić, there will be new opportunities because, as communist comrades say, it is a constant struggle. Today Srebrenica, tomorrow Croatia and Plenković, who did not take Serbs into the Government, then the standard menu with Aljbin Kurti on the plate, and there is Montenegro if there are any mistakes in that constant fight for the Serbian people.

Because of all that, this episode with Karla B. and Milan K. is not presenting any new evidence about Srebrenica, but only one in a series of collective diagnosis of people and times in which everything is allowed.