Konaković would turn BHRT and FTV into his RTRs, and the civil sector is silent because they are joint beneficiaries of American power and money!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

They announced that dawn would break. But it has become so dark that the politics of the Trojka project can rightly be seen as a locomotive whose brakes have failed and is undoubtedly dragging us into the abyss of a socio-political black hole.

There have been crises before, but viewed from today's perspective, those earlier times were a gray passage between darkness and light. With the difference that civil society in those earlier times was completely free to act proactively, point out all anomalies, and prevent sliding into the abyss.

Today, that society reacts only sporadically, and in that fact lies the cause that further accelerates the locomotive on its way to the abyss. Just imagine if someone from the political actors of previous government compositions had said, we will elect the management of the public broadcasting system when we are sure that this management will follow our policies.

I am convinced that at that moment we would have had such a reaction from non-governmental organizations that have flooded the country, and because of that reaction, Bosnia and Herzegovina would resemble North Korea, where public media are established according to political desires and strategies.

The civil society of Bosnia and Herzegovina is silent today, yet it clearly sees and hears how the actors of state power intend to solve the problems of the public services BHRT and FTV. And that is why I will first offer the reasons that explain the silence of the civil sector.

Most of that sector is financed by grant funds that mainly come from the United States of America. The political project Trojka was created on the coordinates of the US administration and diplomacy, and it has not yet gone deep enough into dictatorship for its creators to disown it.

And as long as the American creators do not disown that project, the civil sector will not dare to criticize it. Because American policy and grant funds go hand in hand. Well, there will be those among the non-governmental organizations who will react, but nowhere near as they reacted to the previous ones.

And now about the man known by the phrase “we are”. Elmedin Konaković, president of the People and Justice party and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is clearly in a serious panic characteristic of politicians who recognize public anger due to bad moves and actions, and in that panic, they turn towards dictatorship and regime-driven affairs.

Justifying accusations of betrayal, he did not offer arguments, but showed fear of losing power, aware that what he promised and must deliver to Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović is recognized by the public as betrayal. He offered a story about parity in running institutions, thus exposing himself. He boasted that he had returned the international community's focus to BiH, only to receive a yellow card from the public and a final warning from American envoy James O’Brien. Čović revealed that he agreed to a floating third entity in the Election Law and the election of the BiH Presidency member from the Croat people with the HDZ certificate.

And undoubtedly, Konaković knows that what he gained through the American projection of political reality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he is losing unacceptably fast, and that by 2026, his independent political activity could end. Independent of SDA, dependent on the USA, to be clear!

And what did Milorad Dodik do when he started to loosen the American grip. He became radical, then more radical, then a dictator! Elmedin Konaković has given indications in recent days that when the American control loosens, we can expect that this is also his path.

“We expect a long-term solution when people who act according to the policies of Trojka demand from them sit in the management of both public broadcasters, both FTV and BHRT,” Konaković stated, finally revealing his hand.

And how it turns out when people who follow policies sit in the management of a public broadcaster, we see in the example of RTRs. That RTRs is not only a political but also a personal follower of Milorad Dodik, who has enabled the promotion of North Korean democracy in RS.

Konaković would do the same, because Dodik has been in power for two decades thanks to that RTRs, while the power is rapidly slipping away from the Sarajevo tricolor NiP.

In the information that BHRT published after the leaders of Trojka met with the management of that house and FTV, it is stated: “The president of the People and Justice party, Elmedin Konaković, said that Trojka today offered some solutions to the general directors of BHRT and Federal Television”.

After Konaković's statement about the two-way relationship between Trojka's policies and the management of these two broadcasters, we can assume with great certainty what Trojka offered to the management of BHRT and FTV.

Looking at RTRs, we can very clearly see what it would look like if the heads of public services were Trojka's obedient followers, but can you imagine what it would be like for BHRT employees?

To help, remember Konaković's attitude towards journalists from Klix, Hayat, Istraga, Patria, Faktor… It's clear, isn't it!