EDIN URJAN KUKAVICA Exactly crazy...

By Edin Urjan Kukavica

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One needs to be "exactly crazy" to claim that horrific crimes were not committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One needs to be crazier than the planners and perpetrators of those crimes, even crazier than RK himself, because even he wasn't so crazy as to base his defense on denying obvious facts, but rather hired a master of procedures and technicalities for his defense and "defended" himself by challenging the process... We didn't need reactions to the verdict to realize that we live in a "madhouse".

And so... he was convicted... to life imprisonment, just like the one before him. One as a military and the other as a political creator and executor... Apart from a small satisfaction for those to whom these two, and many other unnamed individuals, caused the greatest pain, it is unlikely that anything will change after the second verdict – just as nothing changed after the first.

But, I have to ask: What now?

Is there an obligation for any institution or instrument of the international community to, for any reason – and all are completely legitimate – decide to put the infamous Dayton Peace Agreements with all their Annexes to rest and initiate a process of redefining the internal status of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its administrative structure, and the malevolent organization which – as has been ruled several times, and again yesterday – is the result and consequence of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war?

Expecting something like that to happen from within is dangerous and tantamount to expecting a can to open itself. Namely, a can opens from the inside only if its contents have expired to such an extent and have spoiled so much that the can bulges and explodes. And the Bosnian can has never needed much for those two critical factors to occur. Besides, nothing similar to reforming BiH from within is simply possible or logical, because all its institutions, including the Constitutional Court, are obliged to preserve its constitutional order. In other words, one needs to be crazier than the "exactly crazy" and expect bureaucrats, paid too well from the legislative to the executive branches, to abolish themselves.

As for political entities... regardless of whether they represent the will of even their own people (and they don't, because these three national representations /MD introduced sports terminology into the political lexicon, although medical terminology would be incomparably more adequate on several grounds/ are indeed a result indicator of the will of those who voted, but in this specific case, they are only an indicator of the imperfection of democracy, for which even its inventor stated that a system where three idiots can outvote two geniuses is on shaky ground... In other words, what decision can be legally valid, legal, and legitimate if – democratically – more than half of the voters (abstainers and invalid ballots) did not vote for it, which is a direct indicator of dissatisfaction with the offered options? But that is not so important now... Loving this country and loving its guardians are two ends of an extremely long stick. It is enough for us to conclude that we cannot expect anything good from them.

Therefore, it is only logical, from the outside... that is, let the "international community" and let a reform that will enable all people equal rights in all parts of the country, whatever they may be called... both people and parts of the country.

Is there even a theoretical possibility that someone – anyone – in the current arrangement and distribution of geostrategic interests, where the Balkans only serves to demonstrate strength and power, would dare to make a decision, ask a question, and initiate a process of prohibiting the denial of verdicts by the Court and Mechanism, and raise their voice due to the continuation of joint criminal enterprises, not to mention proposing strict sanctions for anything and anyone who even thinks about, let alone publicly promotes and bases policy on, ending the war by other means? Namely, will anyone ever be held accountable for further persecution, deportations, terrorizing civilians, and taking the inhabitants of an entire country hostage from January 1996 to the present day? Or will everyone pretend to be "exactly crazy" and continue as if nothing particularly significant happened then or now...

What I mean is, if it doesn't occur to anyone that something – everything – here needs to be changed, reorganized, and reformed... and if no one does anything in that direction, "Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina" will abstract the significance of any and all verdicts by any international court, tribunal, or mechanism... and the two convicted of committing crimes will be less guilty than the multitude of anonymous officials who will pretend to be "exactly crazy" and, through inaction, condemn – if they haven't already – countless unborn to life imprisonment in a country left to "exactly crazy" heirs and successors of the policies of war criminals.