BETWEEN TWO EVILS: Are we hopeless due to purchased diplomas and ignorance of Bosniaks, or do Vučić and Dodik control the system?

Written for NAP by: Murat Tahirović, President of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide

What is happening with the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the cantons, which have a constitutional and legal obligation to protect the citizens of our country.

On one hand, the RS Ministry of Interior diligently does its job, arresting and prosecuting anyone who even thinks, let alone utters a single word against the RS entity.

On the other hand, in the Federation of BiH, citizens do the work of the competent institutions, filing reports, seeking prosecution of those responsible. Unfortunately, all these reports end up in the wastebasket, without a single indictment being filed.

The state of our system is pitiful, so pitiful that I am sweating as I write this.

We have never been more miserable, never more humiliated, never have we allowed bullies from the RS to give us lessons in Sarajevo about their unyielding persistence.

At the airports in Sarajevo and Tuzla, merchandise with Chetnik symbols is sold, which cannot be found even at Belgrade airport, and only the reaction of individuals led to such merchandise being removed.

The bakery "Manja" sells us bread every day and regularly on social media denies and insults the victims of genocide. Dodik regularly, daily insults and deeply probes still fresh wounds, but his followers are also becoming louder, aware that there are no punishments, no accountability, and practically the situation is no longer unbearable only in the RS, the situation is unbearable throughout BiH.

How does the entire system that should take care of the safety of citizens in BiH behave? It behaves as if all the above is happening in Serbia, meaning the system does not work and does not take any action. Why?

Have all the countless diplomas that were handed out left and right from Bosanski Novi to Brčko, East Sarajevo, Foča, mainly to Bosniaks, come due?

Are these diplomas now in play so that their owners, lacking knowledge, are unable to draft the simplest indictment, or is the system under the control of Serbia, i.e., Aleksandar Vučić and Milorad Dodik? Or is it both?

First they came for the returnees, and I did not speak out, because I was not a returnee. Then they came for the religious officials (imams), and I did not speak out, because I was not an imam. And then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out.