The imposed have only one goal - to show that 'the system did not fail': When the government is not from the people, it does not care about the people!

Written by: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Lately, I have been increasingly asking myself whether it is worth writing, criticizing, and pointing out serious anomalies in both the system of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its society. I ask myself this even today, as I read information from Jablanica, Kreševo, Fojnica, and Konjic.

Do we even have a system, and how much can we rely on what we call the system? The truth is that few can predict a quarry collapse, but it is equally true that warnings about that quarry have been issued for years. However, that is not the real question.

Why did the system not take serious warnings from both state and independent meteorologists seriously? Those warnings were not only serious but also marked with the highest level of danger!

And that did not concern our rulers at all, who were rushing in expensive state vehicles to get to their parties' pre-election rallies, instead of patching serious holes in the system and preparing a response to the ANNOUNCED DANGER.

I publicly ask Nermin Nikšić and the imposed Government of the Federation: why was a crisis headquarters not formed after the announcement that was published more than 24 hours before the tragedy? Why was the level of readiness of the Federal Civil Protection Administration not at its maximum? Is it perhaps because the director had party obligations far from work, just like the prime minister?

The Hydrometeorological Institute does not exist just to casually give us a weather forecast; it warns, and the Federation Government, apparently in the final stretch of the election campaign, did not grasp the seriousness of that warning. And do you know what the height of hypocrisy is?!

Yesterday, the Vice President of that Government, Vojin Mijatović, came out and said: "the system did not fail"! But just two illustrations clearly show that Vojin Mijatović is lying. The first is that we have decapitated agencies for river basins, so in those agencies, there was no one to sound the alarm. So, the system already seriously failed at that level of prevention, as did the FBiH Government!

The second devastating thing is this morning's information that mountain rescue services are withdrawing because the civil service did not send them a call, and civilians are banned from approaching the accident site. With such a system, all of us, both religious and atheists, can only pray that natural disasters bypass us.

And the state system? Oh, that is a particularly damaged network! Two days after the chaos, while the dead are being counted and the missing are being searched for, the Council of Ministers is not meeting. True, last night the regime-television council met, trying to show us a false picture of our sad reality.

Foreign Minister Elmedin Konaković, Transport Minister Edin Forto, FBiH Minister of Social Affairs Adnan Delić, and Sarajevo Canton Prime Minister Nihad Uk were serious analysts of the tragedy in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also had accompanying advertising inserts and posts about how they, supposedly, visited some places.

They failed as a government because, although warned, they were not ready on time, and time in disasters is the most important factor in saving people and property. And then they came to explain who knows what from TV screens.

Using the tragedy of the people they lead to prevent the collapse of expensive political marketing is too much even for this difficult and deadly swamp of ours. On top of all that, while the tragedy is unfolding, they and a journalist are calling on the High Representative to postpone the elections!

So, not only did they use the tragedy for political marketing, but in the midst of the unfortunate events, they were thinking about the elections and the fact of how much their unpreparedness for floods would cost them politically.

Slimy, hypocritical… There is no description for it.

Today, most of them are silent, because it is election silence, so the Council of Ministers did not make a decision on a Day of Mourning. There is no information on how much the state, the Federation, and the Sarajevo Canton will allocate for aid. True, some sessions have been announced where funds will be allocated, but while they are announcing, our athletes, businessmen, humanitarians, and citizens have already collected a significant amount to help the affected population. Because that population has no time; drinking water, food, and other necessities are needed today, not when someone remembers.

Unlike Sarajevo, Milorad Dodik is already announcing a session to declare a Day of Mourning, the Tuzla Canton Government has already allocated 500,000 KM to help the affected areas, and the Brčko District 200,000 KM.

In the end, is there anyone in this country who, after Jablanica, Kreševo, Konjic, and Fojnica, feels safe and protected in Bosnia and Herzegovina!?

No, because when the government is not from the people, such a government does not care about the people!