Deniers, aren't you ashamed?

By Delvin Kovač

Eight thousand three hundred and seventy-two. It's hard to even say, let alone slaughter, kill that many. But that wasn't a problem for the heroes of those who deny today. Certainly, the deniers would repeat it with relish if given the opportunity. But to their regret - they won't. Today's Bosniaks are more aware, far more composed than in the 90s when they were gullible, careless, naive.

Armed to the teeth, Karadžić's and Mladić's monsters were "cleansing" everyone in front of them - the weak, the starved, the tormented, the utterly terrified, completely harmless, and unarmed Bosniaks. They didn't discriminate, they slaughtered the elderly, women, snatched children from their mothers' arms. They showed no mercy even to a newborn nameless baby, to whom the mother Hava later decided to give the name Fatima at burial. Fatima was taken from her mother, and Fatima's life had just begun. It is unrealistic to expect Hava's and the tears of other Srebrenica mothers to reach the hearts of inhuman beings, but woe to those whom their curse reaches.

Thirty incomplete remains of Bosniak victims brutally killed in Srebrenica in 1995 yesterday found their final resting place in Potočari. There was no day of mourning in the RS, there were initiatives for it, but in vain. Just a few hours after the commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the genocide, attended by tens of thousands of people, a Chetnik song echoed in the center of Srebrenica. "Veseli se srpski rode" resonated among the followers of the Republika Srpska scum of Bosnian Chetniks, as stated yesterday in his speech by the Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, Menachem Rosensaft. Did the deniers provoke and celebrate what their degenerate did last night? And if you don't distance yourself from such people, you are one of them.

A question for all deniers: do you fear God, and what God do you actually believe in? Do you believe in the same one in whose name a priest blessed the members of the Army of the RS to go and rape Bosniak girls and women and slaughter children and the elderly? And a special question for the biggest denier - we all know who it is, without even mentioning his name - how mentally disturbed must you be to curse genocide? But why would the biggest denier have any mercy for the mothers of Srebrenica when he has none for anyone else? There are few public figures in our region who use such a vulgar vocabulary. True, Zoki Milanović and the criminal Vojo Šešelj can almost stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

It is incomprehensible to a normal human mind that someone can be a role model, a hero, someone who raped, tortured, burned, slaughtered, killed - or ordered all of that. And that to the civilian population in a UN protected enclave, and in plain sight of the international community embodied by the powerless and uninterested Dutch UNPROFOR soldiers. Then he threw the bodies of the murdered into abysses like firewood, and then, in an attempt to cover up the traces of his crimes, dug them up and moved them to secondary or tertiary graves, thus reducing the chances for mothers to find their loved ones whole and to bid them farewell with dignity, forcing them to bury them with one or two found bones. And all of this solely and only in the name of Milošević's Greater Serbian ideology, which Milorad Dodik firmly decided to implement.

Deniers, aren't you ashamed of the entire civilized world, which not only respects the verdicts of international courts that have confirmed that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, but we are increasingly witnessing many world cities marking July 11th to show due respect to the innocent victims and their sympathy for the mothers of Srebrenica.

The High Representative Christian Schmidt, who has recently become more widely accepted in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a German tourist, loudly announced his final reckoning with the deniers from Potočari. However, it is difficult to believe Schmidt's words anymore, considering that his predecessor Valentin Inzko imposed a law that is currently mostly useless, according to which deniers should already be behind bars. Even if Schmidt were to use his Bonn powers once more, he would not be the one to put deniers in prison. The Prosecutor's Office would once again be involved, from which, however, the mothers and victims of genocide have not had much benefit to this day, because not even two years after the law prohibiting the denial of genocide came into force have we seen a single confirmed indictment, let alone a final verdict.