Trivial policies with equal results only contribute to the banalization of evil, which the Troika legitimizes!

Written by: Muamer Bandić/NAP

Another Vampire Ball has passed in Banja Luka amid the silence of BiH institutions, but also of the international community. The silence of High Representative Christian Schmidt is particularly significant, who just a year ago clearly and decisively told us that "January 9, 2024, in that framework and in that way will not happen." Well, we witnessed that it did happen, and in such a way that the lines of normalcy and kitsch were pushed a bit further, so this January 9 we also saw printed license plates of the smaller BiH entity.

Where in all this is this dismissed German clerk, who collects a fat salary in our country to work on building peace and stability in BiH, establishing the rule of law, and achieving all the goals defined in the OHR mission implementation plan? You can guess, for fun, but the correct answer is that he is nowhere, except when the salary is being distributed or when it comes to regular visits to Zagreb. For what he is paid to do, Christian Schmidt regularly plays dead. So much so that we already miss the eternal concern of his predecessor.

While he forgot what he said less than a year ago, the said High Representative for implementing apartheid over Bosniaks did not forget, nor miss, his regular Zagreb briefings on amendments to the BiH Election Law. And lo and behold, while the public forgot that Schmidt was in Zagreb, a meeting of the ruling coalition in Mostar on the same topic followed. Following the chronological sequence of events, even the last fool is now clear that the goals and narrative of policies in BiH are determined in Zagreb, and the High Representative is their executor, while the Troika is just an ikebana there for the purpose of their legitimization.

Only in this context can the Banja Luka Vampire Ball be called a trivial thing. That thrown lifeline to save his own face was eagerly accepted by the executor of Zagreb's will, and he also cites the Troika, just so no one would ask him why any reaction from the OHR was missing to the constant and flagrant violation of laws, decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH, and the threat to peace and stability by open fascists?

Thus, our already shattered society has been brought to a point where lies and fascism in public speech and political action, even among the broad masses of the people (reflected in constant attacks on Bosniaks in the RS), have become a trivial matter. Therefore, it is completely normal to have protests not because of attacks on Bosniaks who want to live on their own land, but to release the perpetrators of the attacks from custody.

Turning a blind eye, silence, and shrugging shoulders at such things, the inability to create any political response by false Walters, i.e., trivial policies of Zagreb's parrots with Sarajevo addresses, have only led to a general banalization and legitimization of evil in our society. And let us be sure that this evil has no intention of stopping, but we will only silently witness the constant shifting of boundaries year after year, until it is too late.

And just as, aside from melting in the distribution of budget funds to the deserving, the policies and actions of the Troika are trivial in matters of state and entity interest, they are equally trivial at lower levels, cantons and municipalities. In the Sarajevo Canton and in the municipalities they govern, they are equally speechless, inert, and trivial on every issue concerning the well-being of citizens. Just as at the state and federal levels, at the cantonal level we witness the privatization of the state, lies and deception of citizens. They promise a lot and all sorts of things, but rarely fulfill anything. They have already deceived students, they have deceived cantonal employees several times, now they are deceiving the youth of Sarajevo, and they deceive citizens every day.

I only wonder if they dare to deceive Milorad Dodik or Dragan Čović in the same way? Perhaps the High Representative for implementing apartheid over Bosniaks will stand behind them, but rest assured that the people will not!