Bosnian actor Emir Hadžihafizbegović in a letter to Snežana Čongradin, a journalist from Belgrade's "Danas", thanks her for the column in which she wrote that "Bosniaks are our brothers" and labeled people who "seize" the stigma of genocide on Serbs.
He said that Bosniaks will never call Serbs a genocidal nation, but that, among others, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Montenegrin politicians Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević do. He also insulted Mandić and Knežević, saying that "Gilipters are Chetniks".
Text published on the portal today.rs we transmit in full:
"Even though I'm busy filming and far from Sarajevo, even though I've been living for almost a year with a firm decision not to advertise publicly for a long period of time, even though I've become aware of all the grotesqueness of the unfortunately dark and not at all funny Balkanoid Monty Python, who doesn't appear on small screens and in our lives has been closed for 35 years, I couldn't remain indifferent to the article in the newspaper Danas - 'Bosniaks are our brothers' (at least that's how it was reported on Bosnian portals) by journalist Snežana Čongradin.
"What can I say except that the views, opinions, messages and conclusions of this special and excellent journalist in the mentioned text have a distant association in me with William Faulkner, the famous American writer, who during his speech at the Swedish Academy and when receiving the Nobel Prize finished his speech with the sentence: 'I do not consent to the end of man.'
"The same sentence 33 years later from the same place, also receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, was spoken by Gabriel García Márquez with an inserted didascalia, as he quotes Faulkner.
"And really when you think that the devils are winning another battle over the angels, that darkness replaces light, that evil overcomes good, that common sense disappears under the pressure of 'stunted criminal psychology', this text appears, this great Snow White, this newspaper, these people who work in that newspaper.
"We, your Bosniak brothers, have not and will never utter that morbid and blasphemous sentence about the genocidal people. Neither the Mothers of Srebrenica, nor Alija Izetbegović, nor Bakir son mu, nor any member of the BiH army in which they died heroically and our Serb brothers, not even one resident of Bosnia and Herzegovina who is not a Serb will say that. We know very well who the perpetrators of the genocide are and that it has nothing to do with the people.
"Only to the Serbian people, the host and good peasant soul in the heart of Šumadija, only to Novak Đoković, Mihajlo Pupin, Svetozar Marković, Dragan Džajić, the honorable and proud warrior of Thessaloniki buried somewhere in the foothills of the Serbian mountains, my big brother Radovan Bigović, that moral beacon Serbian Orthodox Church, Nikola Jokić, Divac, Tanja Peternek, Lanet Gutović, Anica Dobra, General Mišić, King Aleksandar, Dragan Nikolić, Milena Dravić, Boro Todorović, Ljuba Tadić, Dada Vujasinović, Đorđe Balašević, Peri Luković, Rambo Amadeus, Nenad Čanko , Miri Trailović, Tozovac, Čkalja, Sonja Savić, Duško Kovačević, Dragoslav Mihajlović, Milić od Mačva, Latinka Perović, Crnjanski, Kokan Mladenović, Zoran Radmilović, Bogdan Bogdanović, Radomir Konstantinović, Slavko Ćuruvija, Borka Pavićević, Bora Spužić Kvaka, Tom Zdravković , to Goran Marković, Miki Jevremović, Nenad Bjeković, Kića, Moka, Obradović, Olja Ivanjicka, Mija Aleksić, Duško Radović and hundreds of thousands and millions of people of a proud nation, the term genocidal "seizes" the term genocidal and puts a historical stigma on a country and its noble people. Aleksandar Vucic.
"It is the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is Dačić, it is Brnabić, it is Šešelj, it is Bokan, it is Marić Milomir, it is Vulin, it is Vučićević, it is Kusturica, it is Pink...
"They are Serbian tabloids, they are Mile Dodik, they are the two gyliptera Chetniks Mandić and Knežević from Montenegro.
"Find me a Bosniak who has ever publicly said that Serbs are a genocidal nation, I will pour gasoline on myself and set myself on fire.
"This above-mentioned elite of Serbian society, i.e. the government and their media, say five times a day that Serbs are a genocidal nation. O tempora o mores. Who is humiliating whom here? And do you know why they say that?
"Their formula is simple, pragmatic and is called 'let's save ourselves at a price'; knowing that the end is near, they need chaos, a new conflict, blood, shells, the wail of mothers of all kinds.
"They need hatred and fear, once again destroyed cities and human souls. They need fog from evaporating Serbian, Bosniak and other boys' blood, blood over the bodies of dead soldiers.
"Through that fog of the blood of some new 'Košar' and children sent to war, it is easier to escape from one's country, through that bloody fog it is easier for planes to take off from Laktaş and Surčin, one towards Moscow, the other for Bahrain and the Emirates.
"Through that bloody fog, it is difficult to see the billions of euros stolen from their own generation, which they carefully teach and educate on a daily basis that they belong to a genocidal nation.
"Apart from those 'scumbags from the reading room', no one has ever uttered that blasphemy, neither in Bosnia, nor in Croatia, nor in Kosovo, nor anywhere in Europe, nor anywhere in the world. Only Vladimir Putin said from the beginning of the war in Ukraine that Srebrenica was committed Genocide. The statement is very easy to find. It was uttered in the context of the coming hell and war between Russia and Ukraine, of course the Russian president did not mention the people but the villains.
"That's why, our sister Snežana and the brave people of Danasov, I'm finishing.
I was once asked in some newspaper what I consider the greatest invention in the world. I replied, 'A mirror.' Why, the journalist asked me. That's why, I said, there is no greater goal and satisfaction in human life than before brushing your teeth in the morning in the toilet and saying to yourself in the mirror: 'You're going, master.'
"Snežana, sister, you and your colleagues at Danas are going through difficult trials, attacks, pressures, but whenever you are having a hard time, remember that there is a mirror in your bathroom. A mirror and three magical words: 'You are here, master.' Because of those three magic words, life has meaning.
"And that's why Faulkner and Marquez and all of us from the 'little prince planet', all of us descended from Ujević's 'brotherhood of people in space', do not agree to the end of man.
"I love you, dear sister Snežana, very much and sincerely. Less 'burning wounds' after your text. Thank you on behalf of all the innocent people killed in Srebrenica. Thank you to your newspaper Danas because Danas is not just a newspaper, it is a printed document about a bad time and to the brave and brave people in it," Hadžihafizbegović wrote.
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