For Sarajevo society, Karić is less of a woman, less of a mother, less of a politician than some others

At the same time as Milorad Dodik was cursing the Srebrenica genocide at a meeting in Konjica, causing Kemal Ademović to be the only one to leave the gathering of coalition partners SDP, NIP, Naša stranka, SNSD and HDZ, a different drama was unfolding in Sarajevo.
The party background of the actors is the same. The mayor of East Sarajevo, Ljubiša Ćosić (SNSD), placed shameful signs at the entrances to East Sarajevo about “the city of 157,000 Serbs who had to leave Sarajevo.”

The mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić, reacted swiftly, telling Ćosić that he would be held accountable for his false claims. During the day, she filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Mayor Ćosić.

What the young mayor could do from the position she holds, she did.
Reactions were absent, for example, from the young Prime Minister of Sarajevo Canton, Nihad Uk. Neither did the parties of the troika that make up the government in Sarajevo Canton speak out, for instance, to demand the removal of the controversial sign or to tell Dodik not to provoke Sarajevo.

Thus, just as the party leaders in Konjica behaved when they continued the meeting after the most brutal curse of the genocide, so too did those who are in power in Sarajevo Canton and who should have stood up to protect Sarajevo and the truth.

Whatever anyone thinks of her, Mayor Karić on Friday defended the capital city of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thus the state, its inhabitants; she defended the truth and international verdicts.

In recent days, Mayor Karić has been the target of various analysts, directors, and influencers who “honour” her with the worst insults.

No women's association, nor any other, and there are hundreds, has stood up to protect Benjamina Karić.

Karić's “sin” is also that she was not at the Pride Parade, but was at the funeral of the young doctor Alma Suljić. It is also a sin that she did not allow the projection of the Israeli flag on the City Hall and the covering of the plaque about Serbian war criminals so that officials of the same SNSD could enter it. It is a sin that she banned projections of all sorts of things on the City Hall except in a few cases, which was unanimously supported by the City Council.

Perhaps the mayor also made some awkward and unfortunate statements about holidays. Perhaps she could and should have done things differently. But this much anger and insults that individuals are sowing towards the mayor of Sarajevo are already taking on serious signs of verbal violence.

However, neither the SDP nor its president Nermin Nikšić stood up to protect Benjamina Karić.

A photomontage of the mayor's image with a headscarf and a “black tooth” was published on social media as a response to Karić distributing baklava in Baščaršija for Bajram. There was no reaction to this brutal insult, not only to Benjamina but also to Muslim women who wear headscarves, from the same associations that react to much smaller things.

Various human rights and women's rights defenders only wake up when they deem someone deserves a reaction.

If principles apply to others, why do they not apply in the case of Benjamina Karić? Is she less of a woman, less of a mother, less of a politician, less of a lawyer than any other woman? It seems that in our Sarajevo society, she is.