How on earth did we allow Šuhreta, Ružnić and our Krajisniks to be declared fascists!

By Amina Čorbo-Zećo

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For three winters, and now entering the fourth, the migrant crisis has been ongoing. Every year it gets worse and worse. And I can't help but wonder, and I will do so by quoting the head of the International Organization for Migration mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, IOM Bosnia and Herzegovina, Peter Van Der Auweraert - how on earth did we end up in this situation.

I am particularly interested in how we are now being declared fascists and haters of the weakest. What is the goal of those who have been spending hundreds of millions of KM for three years without any lasting solutions. And however much they speak in gloves about the amount of their income, it is clear that the salaries of those who serve migrants are well above the average in BiH.

And let them be, and they should be, but what right do you have to declare the authorities in USK fascists, just because they have one request that relates to the fact that they do not want thousands of migrants in the urban environment. Moreover, they want to place them in the city center without any reason.

How is it that from foreigners and domestic human rights activists, who are only strong on social networks, we haven't heard so far that they called Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović fascists, but they immediately jumped on Šuhret Fazlić. They didn't spare the state authorities either. And however much they show that they are incapable, we must not allow those who served us the crisis to make us hate the people who have hosted over 100,000 migrants so far.

Yes, that's how many have passed through Krajina and BiH.

I cannot explain, and I hope time will show, what the goal of keeping migrants in the urban environment is. I cannot help but suspect that the goal is for them to stay there.
Now the 'city crowd' from social networks will rush to declare the media where I work as fascist, and I ask them what they have done, have they fed even one migrant, clothed them, warmed them?

The authorities in USK have as many as five camps in their territory. They do not dispute any of them, and no one asked them if they could be formed there? Why are we demonizing them now when they once said NO.

Why doesn't the IOM clearly tell us how many times and how much money they have spent on those unfortunate people who, after the most terrible pushback from Croatia, had to be clothed again, naked and barefoot. They paid them additional health insurance due to fractures, blows, bruises inflicted by the Croatian police. Apart from media reports, the official Brussels has never reacted. How are we fascists then, and Croats are not.

Why are IPA funds not withheld from them, why are you blackmailing BiH. Why do you call our representatives 'hard nuts to crack'.

Do not remind us that we were refugees too. We were, but do you know where we were accommodated in various 'homes' that you cannot even find on a map. We had documents, we were registered, and you knew our identity.

That is why I do not and will never allow Šuhreta, Ružnić, and my Krajisniks to be declared fascists. These people have already given too much. Identify the real culprits, there are some among you, but also among your favorite figures in the BiH authorities.

You had to interrupt your annual vacations and holidays, but the people of Krajina interrupted their peaceful lives three years ago. Enough is enough!