Krug 99: The intention to delay the 'Kovačević' judgment, nor for Croatia to manage our country, must not pass

(Patria) - After the majority and broadest public in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond accepted the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of 'Kovačević' as a roadmap for the historical transition from an ethnically and undemocratically founded political system to a democratic political system, the new decision of the five-judge panel of the European Court of Human Rights to accept the request of self-proclaimed agents without any arguments, and at the same time not accepting letters from high officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina clearly stating that this country does not have a resolved status for self-proclaimed agents, represents an unexpected insidious blow and a loss of trust in the European Court itself, where political lobbying is valid court practice, states the reaction of the Association of Independent Intellectuals Krug 99.

"But it has equally motivated democratic forces of peace, a state without discrimination and the desire for equality of all citizens, to draw new energy from this act for changes and equality of the Bosnian state in international relations.

The intention to further establish policies of division in BiH through the delay of this court process, in order to ultimately divide its territory, must not pass. Nor should the insidious traps of alleged rapid integrations, outside of European standards, de facto and permanently realize the wartime political goals of a captured state of BiH and an impossible civil society, a nation without sovereignty and a people in uncertainty from a construct that would continue to be a smoldering powder keg. Neo-colonial agendas of Croatia, as well as Serbia in the Balkans, must not and cannot be accepted, in order to impose hegemonic positions and irredentist policies into a state of permanent management of Bosnia and its sovereignty. Nor the creation of a 'sanitary corridor', isolation, apartheid, or the right to democracy for the majority nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina", they state.

They say that the greatest sacrifices in the fight for international recognition of the status of a sovereign Bosnian state and a democratic nation were not made to be desecrated today by shameful betrayal and numbing oblivion.

"The planting of a 'cuckoo's egg' to realize the 'Kovačević vs. BiH' judgment and the demands for a modern political organization of the Bosnian nation, and the rejection of the ethnic formula in favor of affirming the civic principle, has created dangers of war and some new/old destabilization, which is merely a transparent packaging that satisfies the interests of neighboring countries that have already participated in interstate armed conflict against BiH, genocide, and joint criminal enterprises. On the contrary, the current imposed political system is a generator of lasting conflicts and a formula for maintaining a state of potential conflicts, including armed ones. The Dayton Peace Agreement and constitutional order were once adopted in conditions of war and genocide, contrary to international public law; today, by producing fear of war before the European Court of Human Rights, wartime goals of the impossible transformation of BiH into a modern and democratic state are sought to be imposed.

Such argumentation by the OHR is transparent, especially its key instrument, a certain person from the legal department, whom the Presidency of BiH should have declared persona non grata in BiH long ago, as they suggest arguments and create solutions that are in the interest of neighboring countries, not the democratic transformation of BiH and lasting peace in it.

Therefore, we call on all civil society organizations in the country and the diaspora that, like Krug 99, have already addressed the European Court of Human Rights, to continue even more intensely with explanations of the situation in BiH and the exposure of insidious arguments against a modern and democratic BiH. We must express gratitude to those intellectuals from significant universities in the world who have already appeared before the European Court of Human Rights with their personal stance on the importance of the 'Kovačević' judgment.

The announced visit to Sarajevo of one of the key creators of anti-Bosnian policy in EU institutions, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, and his advocacy for solutions against a modern and democratic BiH, should be met with transparent resistance and expressed energy, as in the case of protests before the OHR. Because the fate and reality of Bosnia could become such that our country would be managed by neighboring countries and not by its citizens as bearers of its sovereignty, and therefore it is necessary to clearly and visibly express our Bosnian resistance. And for the President of the European Court of Human Rights, we have only one question – is it necessary to lobby for human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or is this country, in your eyes, already condemned to the status of a state without human rights and permanent discrimination, through so-called consociational democracy? Because it seems that her position in European institutions is more important than the protection of human rights, by offering political arguments to the five-judge panel, rather than legal ones when considering the judgment 'Kovačević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina'.

There will be no giving up in the fight for a modern and democratic BiH by all means", they state.