Thursday, February 27 - Another anniversary of the hijacking of train 671... Once again, flowers next to the monuments in Podgorica and Bijelo Polje... Once again, journalists and civil activists warn that civilized authorities must treat the victims differently...
In vain...
The state crime against the families of those kidnapped and murdered is still ongoing...
Because the state of Montenegro, even after thirty-two years, does not want to get off the train of evil in Štrpci... And because the attitude of the current and former authorities towards this crime is equally evil...
The only difference is that in 1993, the DPS tried to distance itself from the crime. First by ignoring it, then by denying it...
Finally, by mitigating the motive, as if it would be easier for the victims' families if the state told them that "the police were chasing the smugglers", that "among the abductees was a black man"...
It didn't help, the liberals, social democrats and all the other anti-war activists were too noisy both in the Parliament and on the street.
As inhumane and morbid as the attempts by the then government to distance itself from Štrbaci were, they were also a sign of awareness of the crime and its gravity...
Thirty-two years later, the coalition of so-called liberators from DPS behaves as if it has freed itself from consciousness and conscience...
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Friday, February 28 - It's in vain, they won't be moved by this list either, but it's up to me to try again...
Esad Kapetanović (19), Ilijaz Ličina (43), Fehim Bakija (43), Šećo Softić (48), Rifet Husović (26), Senad Đečević (16), Ismet Babačić (30), Halil Zubčević (49), Adem Alomerović (59), Muhedin Hanić (27), Safet Preljević (22), Džafer Topuzović (55), Rasim Ćorić (40), Fikret Memović (40), Favzija Zeković (54), Nijazim Kajević (30), Zvezdan Zuličić (23) and Jusuf Rastoder (45).
Their fate, due to their Bosniak names, was already written at the starting point in Belgrade.
The name of Croat Toma Buzov was not on the list for kidnapping and killing, he added himself in Štrpci...
Two monuments and the trial of one kidnapper, that's all the former regime did in 27 years...
Tens of thousands of pages have been written about what DPS did not - and why it did not - want to do, so I will not write any more on that topic today.
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Saturday, March 1 - I want to talk more about what the NSD, DNP, SNP and DCG did not want to do - and why they did not want to do it... Because they are the majority in the legislative branch and the least they could do was adopt at least one of the two resolutions.
In the first, in December 2021, on behalf of the families of those abducted and killed, Demir Ličina and Edin Smailović requested:
- to condemn the serious crime and show respect for the victims;
- to appeal to the judicial authorities of Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to continue the investigation and bring to justice not only the perpetrators of the crime but also those who ordered it;
- that the families of the victims be paid a one-time financial support and appropriate financial compensation be determined;
- all of this should be done no later than June 1, 2022.
Nothing has been done.
Four days after the deadline, a similar resolution was proposed by MPs Adnan Striković (SDP) and Suada Zoronjić (URA).
To their request that the families of eight crime victims from Montenegro be granted the status of civilian victims of war, the Parliament responded - with the crime of silence...
Because they were not killed "by the enemy army", which is a legal requirement for such status...
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Sunday, March 2 - Despite the verdicts for the crime in Štrpci - admittedly belated in Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Army of Republika Srpska remained friendly to the leaders of the ruling coalition...
That friendship was confirmed, just five days after the 32nd anniversary of the crime, by the first among the leaders, Andrija Mandić... Going to Banja Luka as the President of the Assembly...
On behalf of Montenegro, whose remaining coalition government has turned a deaf ear... That's probably why it doesn't hear what the head of the legislative branch supported in Republika Srpska...
And he supported - because silence means approval - everything that the unnamed leader of that entity did and said...
And that there is no more Bosnia and Herzegovina... Which Mandić, as soon as he gets home, will once again call a friendly neighboring country...
And a middle finger for Christian Schmidt and a call for "kicking, arresting and stoning"... Although, as soon as he gets there, he will greet all other high-ranking representatives with the same condescension as all the previous ones...
And insulting the "stinky Europeans"... Who not only don't stink on their own turf, but hug them as a sign of gratitude for the promises that Montenegro can join the European Union with him at the head of parliament...
And there are many other things Andrija Mandić supported at the scandalous rally in Republika Srpska...
The biggest scandal, however, is what doesn't work the first time...
Open support for the original policy and foundations of that creation. In which the lives of tens of thousands of Bosniaks are embedded...
Including more than eight thousand victims of the Srebrenica genocide...
Despite that, no one can do anything to this creation or its leader, especially not Montenegro, because neither it nor he has long been its problem...
Fortunately for Andrija Mandić, we can because he is our problem... Therefore, since he does not want to give up the DPS policies from the war-torn nineties, we have no choice but to give up on him...
As the Speaker of the Assembly, of course, the position of party leader is the responsibility of his voters...
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Monday, March 3 - Unfortunately, Montenegro cannot influence the fate of Ukraine, but if our government had at least a little sense and humanity, it could at least stop hate speech on social networks...
I'm not capable of doing it, but it's mine to try...
Let me remind you that a country whose leader is ridiculed, insulted, and slandered is a victim, not an aggressor... And that three years ago, on February 24, the ominous words "This morning I ordered an attack..." were uttered by Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelensky...
I am ashamed... of all those who spend days abusing a man who defends his homeland, glorifying a criminal who uses human lives for business, that's how I started...
I am truly shocked by the abuse of the US President and Vice President against the President of Ukraine, who seems as if three decades, not three years, have passed since the aggression against his homeland...
I am ashamed... of myself, for believing for three years that Russia's criminal campaign against Ukraine was supported only by those Montenegrins who three decades ago supported the Montenegrin aggression against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unfortunately, now many of the fighters against the wars of occupation are also on the criminal side...
I am ashamed... of all those who, on the third anniversary of the murder of a state, are heroic in trying to defend at least its dignity. And cowardly silent about the genocide against Palestinians and Ukrainians that is still ongoing...
I am ashamed... of all those who "smell" the smell of cocaine through footage from the distant White House, not remembering how it reeked for thirty years in front of black Montenegrin houses...
I'm ashamed... That I can't do anything more... Except ask them to delete their names from my Facebook friends list...
That's how I ended up...
And I fared a little better than Zelensky, except that the insults against me were juicier...
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Tuesday, March 4 - How he would fare in the White House was clear even earlier, when Trump dared to call Zelensky a "dictator." And to back it up with the fact that Ukraine has not held regular elections since the start of the war.
Of course they didn't because there was a war going on there, I argued back then because I was tired of the TV screen...
Two days ago I was shocked. Both by the footage from Washington and, even more so, by the reactions of the people of Montenegro...
Is this possible? They don't believe their eyes even three and a half decades after the first war lie about the invasion of 30.000 Ustashas on our side of Debeli Brijeg...
Is it normal that even anti-war activists, who saw that first the SAO Herzegovina and then the Republika Srpska were created with blood, now don't see that a Russian republic is being created in Ukraine in the same way...
Is it moral, while Trump is trading its people, territories, and minerals, to criticize Zelensky for the way he scratched his nose, crossed his arms, raised his head, or chose his clothes...
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Wednesday, March 5 - It goes without saying that it is not, but normality and morality have long been destroyed in Montenegro...
Therefore, I kindly ask the bearers of these phenomena on the internet not to use the repertoire of vomit they practice whenever I mention their favorite Andrija Mandić.
On that occasion, to end the column and, I hope, the insults, just one message:
I'm already immune to the "fat cow" and "fat sow"...
I've long since gotten tired of the "whoa...Ustasha" thing...
There are many more things I endure every Friday, but I only pray for one thing... Not to God, but to the saints, Sava and Simeon...
You've repeated at least fifty times that "this crazy woman has brain metastases", "only cancer can silence this woman", "I hope she's falling apart from cancer"...
And now it's your turn to give up.
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