Rebels are deep asleep, intellectuals are dead silent while BH society is falling to pieces

By: Amina Corbo Zeco

The nation is in a dangerous zone of lethargy. What else could we call the suffering of citizens of this country brought upon them by the political elites?

Red light for much needed medical treatment of a young girl, tying up of children with special needs in a very inhumane way, the lack of medicines, questionable quality of the medicines available on the market, school disruptions, failed judiciary, false witnesses, politically motivated indictments, deep poverty...

There's neither humanity nor accountability. That's why the stance towards the migrant crisis should shock no one... as the human approach towards citizens of BiH has been long gone. The power so blatantly demonstrated by those elected by citizens has outrun the political system in which we live; the democracy has a completely different interpretation in BiH. Everybody has rights, nobody has obligations. Rebels are slow to react, which makes them even sleepier; they are less because most of them have left this country which academic community is almost silent while the intellectuals serve political elites.

Everybody wants to be in charge and to run things. And while they swear by the state, local communities have to decide where to put migrants. The ministry of human rights and refugees does not have any authority as regards border control, movements, shelter, health and social care for the migrants and asylum seekers in our country.

The minister of work and social policy Vesko Drljača has requested 'responsible institutions' to act on the shocking findings relating to the Pazaric institution, to make an enquiry. Well, minister Drljaca, you are the one with the responsibility!

And then the cantonal and entity governments want to determine where to accommodate the migrants! With all due understanding of their (local communities) concern, the absence of decided action of those actually responsible is making it impossible to combat the crisis in a humane way.

There's no respect for hierarchy and the system which is somehow still there... The question is not where to accommodate the migrants, but what the country will do with them later on. Is there anyone who dares to repatriate the migrants to their countries – by air? BiH does not have capacities to protect its own children let alone thousands of migrants, and the winter is knocking on the door.

The absence of vision and strategy has resulted in the absence of humanity. Why did we let Europe to preach to us, justify Croatia's inhumane treatment of migrants, while calling us inhumane?!

We are inhumane because we are uneducated! Some of our ministers are politically acceptable folks without vision, some of our policemen have bought their high school diplomas. Most of us dream about landing a comfy well paid job-until-retirement in some state institution which does not require any serious working.

After all, even the director of the Intelligence agency Osman Mehmedagic defended his annulled university diploma as follows: What about the other 300 diplomas? I'm only an Agnus Dei' (lat. Lamb of God, meaning sacrificed).

Mehmedagic is not a lamb, we are the sheep, or as Stevandic would put it – an audience in three rows awaiting to be spoken to by the officials!