Oxygen 'murder' a specialty of RS authorities, independence as a cover for crime and corruption

By: Ernad Metaj

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Industrial oxygen was supplied to RS hospitals - a fact that shocked even the biggest skeptics in the RS MoI. An insight into the business books of TGT Tehnogas convinced them, showing that half a tanker of 14 tons was unloaded at UKC Banja Luka, and the other half at the Novi Jelsingrad foundry. The authorities became so arrogant that they didn't even hide it.

When accused of killing their own citizens with "Croatian oxygen," who else but Milorad Dodik responded, claiming the oxygen was fine and that it was all a big lie intended to destroy RS. That story is nothing more than a "patriotic fabrication" intended to hide the truth. It all irresistibly resembles 1992 and the horrific crime in which twelve babies from Banja Luka died due to a lack of oxygen.

The authorities at the time blamed the international community for imposing sanctions, as well as Bosniaks and Croats whose forces were blockading Krajina. The death of the babies motivated Serbian soldiers to launch an offensive and capture Posavina. The story about the inability to procure oxygen for the babies was an effective "patriotic fabrication" that was only partially true. While sanctions and the Army of BiH did complicate the supply of oxygen to Banja Luka, the babies did not have to die. They were killed by an arrogant regime that needed a scapegoat to intensify hatred towards Bosniaks and Croats, thereby successfully completing the process of their ethnic cleansing in Serbian territories.

"That is common knowledge, but it is persistently kept silent in public. It was a miracle of God that at half past eleven at night, during the war, when there were no telephone connections, I managed to get a signal from the outside world and ask people to relay my message to Zagreb. Miljenko Aničić, the director of 'Caritas,' was there with a convoy, and I told him not to return to Banja Luka without oxygen, because I had heard on the news that newborn babies were endangered due to a shortage of oxygen," said Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka around Christmas.

Eight bottles of oxygen arrived in Banja Luka. They were unloaded in the courtyard of the Bishop's Residence. He brought the bottles here, to the courtyard of the Bishop's Residence.

"And then some armed uniformed men, some paramilitary or police, jumped over the fence, made a mess. They forcibly took that oxygen and carried it away," said Komarica.

Someone was not interested in the babies surviving. If we are to believe the memoirs of Borisav Jović, a close associate of Slobodan Milošević, they could have been saved even without outside help. The foundry mentioned at the beginning of this story produced factory oxygen before the war. The babies could have been saved with it, but the authorities at the time did not want to deliver that oxygen to the hospital. It was not medical, but it could have helped, if nothing else, it was worth trying.

When it was needed, the RS authorities did not want industrial gas in the hospital; 30 years later, it was not needed, but it ended up there. If we are to be honest, both are crimes. Human life has been turned into collateral damage for the higher interests of the authorities. If we draw a parallel between 1992 and 2021, we will understand that the RS authorities are ready to take even air from their own people to achieve their goals. The babies of Banja Luka are victims of war objectives, while those who may have died in recent years because they received industrial oxygen instead of medical oxygen are victims of classic greed, which was believed to be hidden by the panic surrounding the coronavirus.

War and greed had the same justification in these cases. The RS authorities want "their own" state, where it is easier to steal because they will appoint "their own" people to the police and judiciary. The family of Dragičević, who are persistent in their efforts to uncover the truth about the murder of their son, best understands what that means. Arrogant powerful men will continue to kill and sacrifice children until the people are ready to face the truth. The problem is not where they live, in BiH, or in a "self-governing RS"; they will always have the same enemy, and that is corrupt politicians. Proof of this is the claim that a million protective masks disappeared from UKC Banja Luka. Life, however, has a price!