Čović boasts that the Troika doesn't outvote them, rushes to take over FUP, children's lives in Herzegovina clearly don't interest him!

By: Amina Čorbo-Zećo

HDZ BiH leader Dragan Čović assessed it as important that ministers from the Bosniak people in the current composition of the FBiH Government have not outvoted Croats even once, which he believes restores trust.

He did not clarify whose trust, because alongside Čović's views, the news was published that a 13-year-old boy was attacked near Blagaj simply because he was wearing a Velež jersey. The hooligans' brutality didn't end with taking off the shirt, but with a brutal beating of the child!?

Earlier, the president of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in FBiH, Đorđe Radanović, called on the competent institutions to do their part as soon as possible and prosecute the attackers on Serb children in the Mostar returnee settlement of Baćevići. There have been eight such attacks!

But Čović said not a word about this, just as his police, the MUP of HNK, are not solving cases of attacks on returnees, i.e., Bosniaks and Serbs.

The Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sevlid Hurtić, expressed great concern about the increase in violence against children and emphasized the need for urgent reactions from competent institutions to ensure the safety of all citizens, especially children.

But Čović is not very interested in that; it is important that he has a clear path in the FBiH Government, as if we don't see that, while the Troika is slowly handing over institutions to the H component by appointing their cadres even beyond their quota. But they are still dissatisfied. HDZ, as the nominal head of government in the Federation, only invoices demands, and there will be more.

"Here we want to be completely equal, constitutionally equal people to whom no one will give anything. We still have much to receive that belongs to us as a constituent people," said Čović.

He added that all those who resent the appointment of Croatian representatives in the institutions of power in BiH "do not want Bosnia and Herzegovina as it should be".

And precisely this substitution of theses is silently approved within the Troika. Because no one asks where the rights of Bosniak and Serb citizens are where HDZ is in power?
Because the citizens of BiH, and especially Herzegovina now, need security above all! There is none, and when there is no security, there is nothing else. The MUP of HNK is silent and deaf, while Čović wants to take over the FUP as well. Everything has been mobilized to find a way to appoint a Croat, specifically an HDZ one, to head the FUP.
It is worth mentioning that they wanted to appoint their compromised fugitive Zoran Galić to this position, about which neither Čović nor HDZ has commented, while they continue to protect him within the Council of Ministers. And all this while he is unavailable to the BiH judiciary, and Croatia refuses to extradite him!

Where HDZ has absolute power, the other two constituent peoples are left without elementary rights such as the right to life and security. In the midst of attacks on children, we have almost forgotten the destructive terrorist act on the National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar. The results of the investigation are stagnating within the network of the MUP of HNK and the Prosecutor's Office!?

And although this is now about people, with an emphasis on children, I fear that this investigation will also take a very long time!?

Therefore, the SDA's call to include the FUP, OSA, and SIPA in the investigation in order to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of several similar criminal offenses seems more than justified.

Because the protection of all citizens of Mostar from hooligan and savage groups is the priority of all priorities!