Persecution and Mobbing of TV SA Workers – Proof That the Mask of Socio-Liberalism Has Fallen, Revealing the Totalitarian Face of Our Party!

Written by: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Our Party is a social-liberal political organization that advocates for a Bosnia and Herzegovina where all its citizens are equal on every inch of its territory. This is how they describe themselves in the political organization led by Edin Forto.

In fact, it is a project launched as a response to the policies of national parties and the SDP BiH, but with political growth it transformed and moved closer to a totalitarian movement of a narrow group of individuals.

And while in the struggle for power they "advocated" for the rights of this and that group, animals and people, by occupying political chairs in partnership with national parties and the SDP, they showed their true face. Social-liberalism changed its aggregate state and grew into a severe form of socio-political totalitarianism.

Besides becoming publicly recognizable as a branch of HNS (read: HDZ) policies, the example of TVSA best illustrates how far Our Party is from being a social-liberal political organization.

Namely, its cadres placed in leading positions, as well as those pulling the strings from the shadows, have sunk so deep into arbitrariness and acting on the principle of a firm hand, that part of the leadership coming from the People and Justice party seems like it belongs to some European liberal party.

A cadre of Our Party is Zerina Ćosić-Vrabac, executive director for program and production at TVSA. Employees and part of the management of this public service directly accused her of dictatorship and mobbing against some workers. Interestingly, even before the workers' letter, Ćosić-Vrabac faced criticism after KS Assembly representative Muamer Bandić (SBiH) accused her of banning his agreed appearance and access to TVSA shows.

In response to those accusations, Ćosić-Vrabac stated, among other things, that "her work is based on transparency, professionalism" and that "it cannot be questioned." As if we returned to the time of brotherhood and unity when comrades in positions were untouchable because their work could not be questioned.

Ćosić-Vrabac was then, at the urging of TVSA bosses from the shadows, defended by the journalists' association, accusing critics of thus attacking and pressuring journalists and journalism. A member of the body of that association, BH Novinari, is Duška Jurišić, a cadre of Our Party and deputy minister for human rights and refugees.

Besides exerting enormous pressure on her subordinates in the Ministry, causing some to leave, and working to prevent a final ruling in favor of human rights in the case "Kovačević vs. BiH," Jurišić is a person who, according to information from TVSA, largely controls the flows in this media outlet.

And when TVSA employees found the strength to speak publicly about mobbing and torture in the public service of the Sarajevo Canton, the BH Novinari association did not react. But the Supervisory Board, a body elected by politics, and politics is currently shaped by Our Party along with the "hated SDP" and NiP, did react.

And in that Supervisory Board are cadres of the Troika, which was well encouraged by Enver Kazaz with his "analyses," so he also got his place on that Supervisory Board. Such a Supervisory Board gave full support to Ćosić-Vrabac, while accusing the Employees' Council of exceeding its authority and the workers of making sweeping assessments.

The fact that Our Party behaves in the media space of Sarajevo like Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia best illustrates the fact that the mask of socio-liberalism has fallen, revealing the totalitarian face of the Ourists.

Social-liberalism has also proven to be the worst form of political action in Europe, and one does not need to be a political expert to define that social-liberalism as a political mask used to come to power. And then, when power is achieved and masks fall, from the face of that social-liberalism emerges a severe form of totalitarianism.

Our Party is an absolute example of this, because while they were in opposition, this was a state that expels its citizens abroad. When they came to power, they became a punitive expedition for all those who do not bow down.

Europe is getting rid of this deceptive phenomenon; Bosnia and Herzegovina should follow that trend!