Herzegovinian Croats are sending clear signals due to politics that they do not want Bosniaks as neighbors, therefore such politics should be isolated!

By: Rasim Belko

About two years ago, Dragan Čović, president of HDZ BiH, announced unrest in the south because his policy of apartheid and monolithic thinking was not satisfied with having an exclusive right to the member of the Presidency of BiH from the Croat people.

From then until today, unrest in the south has become more frequent, and the situation increasingly escalates from minor incidents into a continuous fight against Herzegovinian Bosniaks, whom Sarajevo politics has apparently left in the lurch for the sake of someone's political interests.

Yesterday, after the chaos on the streets of Mostar and the open attack on Mostar residents who were going to the national team's match in Wales, I read two seriously disturbing sentences. One was the headline of an article suggesting that we are getting closer to a situation where someone will be killed, and the other was the claim that so-called fan groups under the banner of Croatian politics are actually paramilitary formations ready for anything.

The riots are no longer just a matter of Mostar, nor are they a matter of the relationship between two fan groups on opposite sides of that city. The riots are now a problem in Stolac as well, and they began with the fascist attitude of the mayor of Stolac, Stjepan Bošković, and Croatian politics towards the Bosniaks of Stolac.

They continued with the conflict that happened in that city a few days ago over graffiti or banners. And that will not be the end, the riots will continue, which is the only certainty regarding events in Herzegovina.

Meanwhile, the Sarajevo quasi-political elite has not woken up from their slumber in their armchairs or their dreamy fantasies about entering power, depending on which political bloc we are talking about, i.e., the government or the opposition.

There was no firm message, let alone concrete action against the fascist policies of HDZ and the attacks on the lives and property of their phalanxes deployed across Herzegovina.

Because, in Sarajevo's quasi-politics, the calculation is obviously known and firmly accepted. And the calculation says that Dragan Čović is the boss and that one should stick with the boss if one plans to dip their fingers into the budget honey of the Federation of BiH.

Today, after three years of serious media struggle against the quasi-political scourge of the Trojka project, it is completely clear that Bosniaks, Bosnians and Herzegovinians, or patriots in general, do not have a policy that would oppose Dragan Čović. No, most of these Bosniak quasi-policies that appeal to the patriotic electorate emphasize the necessity of being in Dragan Čović's grip.

And no one is asking anymore why this is the case if the elections are only six months away and if there is an option for Čović not to be the sole controller of the Croatian political being in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, I will, as I have never done before, quote a comment from a post on my own Facebook profile:

“Easy there Rasim, Dragan Čović is an envoy of Christian Europe from which we live and which has preserved Bosnia for us to some extent. Croats are representatives of Europe in Bosnia. So, as they play, we must dance, whether we like it or not. That's how it is, my friend. Go to Palestine or Iran or Syria or Turkey and you'll see how much a Bosniak is worth. Europe has fed us and made us human. Hats off to Europe. So shut up, put plum brandy on the table and drink.”

At first, I laughed at this limited person, and it was completely irrelevant to me whether he was a bot or a real person. But then I remembered the time after the second-instance proceedings in the case of “Kovačević vs. BiH” and the comments on some of the texts we published on that occasion.

Approximately 80 percent of the comments were similar to this commentator from my Facebook profile. I asked myself and others why this is so, have Bosniaks given up on a civic state, which would mean that they also want some ethnic entity, or is something else at play, but then I realized that the word NARRATIVE is as dangerous as the word NUCLEAR WEAPON.

Because the narrative of quasi-politics, mercenaries, spies, and who knows what other charlatans in our public space has driven Bosniaks crazy to the point where they no longer even believe in a unified civic Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that Dragan Čović, a convert, is the representative of Christian Europe, even though not so long ago he was a communist/atheist.

And then I return to the present and see that the Bosniak quasi-political elite is rushing into the abyss of Čović's embrace, which will probably be the last act in the drama of Bosnia and Herzegovina's survival or demise.

One more mandate of Čović's management of all processes in the country and the larger entity, be sure, is more dangerous than all the criminal attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina during the aggressions. Not because Čović is strong, but because Bosniaks in the nineties had one ideology, and it was called a unified and integral civic state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and today they live with the idea that we don't need a civic state, that RS is somewhere out there, and that Čović is the Pope's viceroy in our regions.

I do not believe in the option of a sudden awakening and change of consciousness, especially since I do not believe that we will free ourselves from the information or special war that is being waged against us among ourselves. But, nevertheless, for the sake of my own conscience and what I stand for, I must say that the few conscious ones must come out more bravely and loudly and tell the Bosniak quasi-politics that there is no alliance with Croatian politics that threatens the lives, property, and freedom of Herzegovinian Bosniaks.

We must, perhaps this is our last chance, come out and loudly declare that there can be no coalition or tying of flags with Čović and his politics as long as Bosniaks and other citizens from Stolac, Mostar, and other cities and villages in Herzegovina do not have the rights that Bosniaks and other citizens in Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla... have.

It is questionable how many of us can still say this and how many will listen to us those whose only goal is their armchair and budget, but it is up to us to raise our voice and say it, at least we will die with a clear conscience!