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The way in which war criminal Ratko Mladić is being beatified today is just an improved version of his glorification at a time when he committed war crimes and helped commit them. And there is no defense against that...

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Photo: Beta / AP
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

Ratko Mladić died three decades after the greatest crime he committed...

And the largest committed in Europe after World War II...

And if it weren't for his brother in the genocide, Pavle Đurišić, it would have been the greatest crime ever committed against Bosniaks in the Balkans...

AND...

And there should only be one point there.

Because criminals deserve no obituaries, no memorials, and especially no public expressions of condolences from anyone - they deprive families of their feelings, in whose (o)neighborhood no one has the right to interfere...

It should, but this is Montenegro...

The 30th of August, liberated...

From everything except the consequences of what she was supposedly being freed from...

This is not only a perverse practice of the former regime, which the current government has not gotten rid of, but is improving on every day in every way...

The only thing she can't make better, even if she wanted to, is warfare...

It cannot because NATO does not like to be disturbed in its area of ​​jurisdiction...

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The way in which war criminal Ratko Mladić is being beatified today is merely an improved version of his glorification at the time he committed war crimes...

And to commit, let's be clear right away, means to command those who commit them...

And there is no defense against that...

Especially not by referring to the fact that there is no evidence that Mladić killed anyone with his own hands...

Maybe not, but he's guilty...

For the death of civilians in the Knin Krajina region, even though his arrival, his stay, and his impact in that part of Croatia have been forgotten by all those who were not allowed to...

And the Hague Tribunal...

And domestic courts...

And the politicians who sent him there on a "special mission"...

And their successors...

Everyone, except the victims and the rare journalists who neither wanted nor could forget...

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His command "Roll it up!" is also unforgettable...

Or "Raspameti", maybe I got it wrong because I listened to them a long time ago, and I keep confusing him with that colleague Momčilo Perišić who was destroying and driving Mostar crazy...

Above Sarajevo, from Pale, Mladić also issued some other...

- Beat Velesic and beat Pofalic, to drive them crazy, so they can't sleep, and there aren't many Serbs there - that's how he commanded in 1992, continuing to list other settlements "where there aren't many Serbs"...

But I can't confuse this one, in the Hague courtroom the audio recording was one of the pieces of evidence...

He also issued other commands, not only to the gunners, but also to the snipers, whose targets were everyone on the streets of Sarajevo, children, women, the elderly, postmen, taxi drivers, and shopkeepers...

And... During the 44 months of targeting, about 12.000 were killed...

In Srebrenica - in ten days - 8.372...

Until now, because not all victims have been found and identified...

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The death of Ratko Mladić has also renewed memories of the morbid distribution of chocolates to children whose fathers are being taken to their deaths...

And then eight-year-old Izudin, whose mother told her not to "take her from that man"...

- But I was very hungry - this is how he later explained this disobedience - and I was too young to understand what was happening...

At the time of this event, Andrija Mandić was well into his adulthood...

And, like all his dropouts, including myself, he could watch everything that was happening in Srebrenica on the screen - and that's literally everything from the nineties, for which I am grateful to my homeland's recent Euro-Atlantic partners - for days...

- I have just sent my condolences to Darko Mladić, on behalf of myself and the New Serbian Democracy, on the death of his father, General Ratko Mladić - Mandić informed the public thirty-odd years later...

And, just in case he hadn't been watching TV on that terrible July 1995, had enough time to find out the truth...

And therefore, there is no justification for this kind of defeat of humanity - which he inflicted on himself, not for the first time...

And there can only be one explanation...

When one person shares in the mourning over the death of a person who ordered, oversaw, or facilitated the deaths of so many thousands of civilians, then the two people are united by the same or similar worldviews and goals...

Whether they were national, political, social, ideological or whatever, the only difference is that one person wanted to achieve these goals through criminal acts and the other through political speeches...

The fact that Mandić made his personal sympathy for Mladić's son's grief public, while trying to hide how he is doing it from the position of President of the Parliament of Montenegro, is more than enough reason for me to sympathize with all those who are calling for his removal...

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There is no need to explain this request, but there is a need to renew some details from the materials that a liberated, anti-fascist, European, civic, and so on Montenegro still does not want to find a place in textbooks...

- We are handing over this city to the Serbian people as a gift - that's how Ratko Mladić began his triumphant speech after the genocide in Srebrenica...

Even a normal state should start a lesson about the "general" with that quote, in all history textbooks from the fourth grade of elementary school to the fourth year of study in all state schools...

And at the beginning, explain that the quotation marks are not a spelling mistake but a legal obligation, because in every army, any officer who kills civilians is stripped of his rank...

And then the teacher would explain that when something is given to someone, even if the recipient is a nation, then before it was given, that something did not even belong to that nation, but was stolen from another nation...

And violently, because there is no other method of kidnapping...

Why was Srebrenica taken away by genocide, and the "general" answered that question on the day of the taking...

- The time has come to take revenge on the Turks - he told his officers.

The revenge lasted for days, in the form of the mass execution of more than 8.372 Bosniaks who were buried in various locations...

And that wasn't enough for the criminals, so a few months later they decided to exhume these mass graves and move the remains to smaller graves, hidden in isolated areas, hoping to cover up what they had done...

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I would not like to discuss further whether the public expression of condolences from the President of the Legislative Assembly of Montenegro should serve to cover up Mladić's crimes, not only the genocide in Srebrenica but all previous ones as well...

About another public address, not because I want to, but because I have to...

- There are moments when silence ceases to be political wisdom and becomes acquiescence. This is one of those moments. Because when the Speaker of the Parliament expresses his respect for the death of a man convicted of genocide, we are no longer talking about private beliefs, but rather about his worthiness to hold office - said DPS President Danijel Živković, announcing the request for the dismissal of Andrija Mandić...

And he explained that for them this initiative is not a political tactic, but an obligation...

And asked "can a man who, as the President of the Parliament, expresses this attitude towards a finally convicted war criminal and a man responsible for genocide have their trust to represent the parliament of a country that wants to be the next EU member"...

Yes, the question was certainly not asked to me, but out of a personal obligation to those whose kidneys still ache from the consequences of opposing DPS's piety towards the aforementioned criminal, I have to answer him...

No, Andrija Mandić can no longer be the President of the Parliament of Montenegro...

And this has nothing to do with joining the EU, but with a return to the original Montenegrin moral norms...

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For the same reasons, DPS cannot be a democratic, socialist, or civic party until it recognizes:

- That Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić and Slobodan Milošević could never have committed so many crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina if Branko Kostić, Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović and Svetozar Marović had not been their accomplices...

- That they all politically, militarily and financially supported the killing of two neighboring countries and their inhabitants...

- That Ratko Mladić was a general in the FRY Army, a state-like entity into which the DPS forced Montenegro by rerun of the Podgorica assembly, but not by voting like in 1918, but with knee-deep blood in 1991/92...

- If the criminals convicted in The Hague had publicly thanked the now honorary president of the DPS for the assistance in oil, weapons and money and explained that without this assistance they would not have been able to enter Srebrenica...

That they... that they... I can't list any more...

But can I finally ask a supplementary question...

What is the greater crime?

To prepare, organize and implement the first war of occupation of Montenegro in its four hundred-year history of liberation warfare...

Send citizens of Montenegro to kill, burn and loot in Croatia...

Supporting war criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina for four years...

Or send condolences for the death of one of them, even if it was the most infamous of them all, Ratko Mladić...

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