Vojin's revelry is as bad an illusion of patriotism as the false image of the SDP as a civic multi-ethnic party!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Few phenomena in post-Dayton Sarajevo could have been better monetized than the proclaimed loyalty of those who, during the years of aggression, were outside the besieged and liberated territory of our country. And it is completely irrelevant whether they were conscripts obliged to defend the country upon the declaration of mobilization or kids somewhere in the vicinity or in the wider world.

And since this topic is always slippery, I must point out that by such people, I do not mean people like Miro Lazović, Bogić Bogićević, Slaviša Šućur, and the like… Certainly, I do not mean Bosnian Serbs, heroes of the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the banner of the only legal Army.

But, I absolutely mean 99 percent of those who, under the guise of the vital need to preserve some multi-ethnic illusion, came to Sarajevo like some anti-fascist troupe to sell anti-fascism, Europeanism, and unity. Nothing in and among such people was either Bosnian or natural. And in essence, they all proved to be quality opportunists fueled by complacency.

If it were otherwise, we would not be witnessing a paranormal phenomenon these days where political organizations operating on a multi-ethnic basis homicidally ignore what could be one of the most important judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for the anti-fascist and European future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In fact, they have gone a step further than this ignoring, offering us a story from the screens that Slaven Kovačević's application is some story of Željko Komšić. And when you hear this from Ivana Marić, close to the SDP and Our Party, you can't help but wonder what form of anti-fascism, social democracy, and social liberalism is carried by the political duo known as the BH bloc.

But, if we look around a bit more broadly, the questions will multiply, just as the answers will become crystal clear.

And in this looking around the daily political axis, one phenomenon will be omnipresent. At one time, that phenomenon was called 100 percent Serb, 101 percent Bosnian. And when we translated that, we got 100 percent Serb and 1 percent Bosnian Vojin Mijatović. And that 1 percent Bosnian Vojin Mijatović is the most expensively paid loyalist of the Sarajevo multi-ethnic political scene.

For the uninitiated, he is a graduate of the questionable, not to say incriminating, private university Megatrend in Belgrade. This is a university whose permits are continuously granted and revoked, and its alumni are fundamentally connected to the regime of Aleksandar Vučić and his services.

The 1 percent Bosnian came to the political scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Milorad Dodik's 100 percent SNSD member. His family pedigree, connected to both former and current regimes, here and across the Drina, also enabled him to hold a position in the state government as deputy minister. At that time, he said he would forever celebrate January 9th, regardless of what the Constitutional Court of BiH decided.

And I believe Vojin celebrates it somewhere. Modestly, with family and friends in a cafe or at home, just as he celebrates the Statehood Day of BiH.

And when did Vojin start celebrating November 25th and March 1st?

The answer is simple: when the tentacles of the then and consultants of the current services realized that he was good material to sell to post-Dayton Sarajevo. True, Vojin is not the first, there were quite a few before him, but Vojin has risen the highest.

He started waving and pinning the state flag to his lapel, selling the story of being 100 percent Serb and 101 percent Bosnian to the stagnant multi-ethnic scene in Sarajevo, and when they heard him speak fluent Ekavian, the red melancholics had no doubts but to install him at the very top of the Social Democratic Party.

Today, Vojo is 100 percent minister and 101 percent Serb. If he had remained that 1 percent Bosnian, as he once declared himself, he would be neither a minister nor a deputy federal prime minister. Therefore, he misused the term Bosnian because his designers knew exactly what was missing in Sarajevo's red stagnation.

And Vojo today passes laws, decides on our fate, and in breaks between drinking bouts with state pedigree, he lectures us on patriotism, who are anti-fascists and who are not. A graduate of the most questionable regional university dares to preach and lecture everyone, and pathological idiots in the Sarajevo media spectrum, in ecstasy, present his Megatrend lessons to us, shouting – patriot, patriot!

And in that devastating fact lies the answer to why the existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina is more threatened today than when Ratko Mladić, with his criminal junta, reached the slopes of Igman.

And if you write just one name next to Vojin Mijatović, it will become much clearer to you why Vojin Mijatović's party/state drinking bouts are as bad an illusion of patriotism as the false image of the SDP as a civic multi-ethnic party!

Vojin Mijatović or Slaven Kovačević?

How to explain that, comrades? Vojin Mijatović is the son of a driver who drove Slobodan Milošević to negotiations on the division of Bosnia, an educational product of a university with a state security stamp, and a political offspring of Milorad Dodik!

Slaven Kovačević is a doctor of political sciences and an assistant professor of legal sciences from UNSA, a declared anti-fascist, a child of Sarajevo, a member of the Army of RBiH, and an applicant who fought in Strasbourg against Croatia and Schmidt, and in Sarajevo against the Trojka to ensure the anti-fascism we celebrate on November 25th.

To understand what was said at the beginning of the text about the excessively high price for apparent multiculturalism, enter these two names into a web search engine, and much will become clearer.

And one more thing, on November 25th, we announced that Bosanska Dubica hosted a ceremony marking the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which gathered citizens, patriots, and guests from Bosanska Dubica, Bosanski Novi, Prijedor, Bosanska Gradiška, Bosanska Kostajnica, and Sisak.

This is a photo from that gathering:

Photo: Fena
And this is one of the photos from Vojin Mijatović's drinking bout:

Photo: Srpskacafe

Is it then superfluous to comment in the future on the escape of imposed rulers under the SDP banner from the official celebration of Statehood Day. And I will be completely open, although I think someone has already written it, can we view the drinking bout in Banja Luka as an escape from the official commemoration at the Presidency of BiH so as not to offend the rebellious Bosnian Serbs and Croats in the person and actions of Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović?

We can, and we don't have to. It is enough to see in what environment the SDP celebrates the State Day, as well as the day that, more narrowly viewed, can be attributed to its anti-fascist achievement. It is quite enough to understand that the SDP has long ceased to have a multi-ethnic composition in its essence; on the contrary, it is only filled that way so that the designers of certain policies can more easily install their cadres in power.

If it were otherwise, the SDP would be the loudest advocate for Slaven Kovačević's application.

But it is not, because only in the political mire that Dayton has muddied for us can the SDP pretend to be a multi-ethnic party in which Bosniaks from defended territories vote, Schmidt imposes, and Vojin speaking Ekavian becomes a minister and a controller of the level of anti-fascism in the blood.

And that is wrong. And difficult. Difficult as '93.