The 'Marićs' who relativize the growing evil in BiH are more dangerous than the SNSD and HDZ

Ernad Metaj

SNSD and HDZ, Mostar and Banja Luka, these days are again firmly connected by the ideology of evil, which only manifests itself in different ways. HDZ and SNSD, under the guise of confrontation with the communists, whose prominent members were once their leaders, spread hatred and intolerance towards all nations that happen to be a minority on a certain territory.

At the same time, the love between Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović exists just for the sake of personal gain, from which Serbs in Mostar and Croats in RS have no benefit. Dodik and Čović are friends, and Serbs and Croats cannot be (friends). Their common enemy are Bosniaks, whose political representatives, such as the president of the Mostar City Council, Salem Marić of the SDA, continue to relativize fascism, hoping that that will help them maintain coalition relations.

It is known who and why often desecrates the Partisan Cemetery in Mostar. It is the work of young fascists, street hooligans amnestied in advance by the government which has the political control over the HNK Ministry of the Interior. These are new generations of ‘Ustashas’ fueled by hatred by a part of politics and society who have their helpers among some of Bosniak political representatives. These are children whose heads ‘politicians are keeping on the stump’. This was vividly demonstrated during the attack of the members of the Ultrasi football fan group on the Mostar Mahala, from where the attackers barely escaped alive.

The hatred that politics produces in Mostar has already led to national conflicts, but SDA political representatives are ignoring it because of their share in power, so they continue to relativize fascism. For Marić, the new swastikas that desecrate the Partisan Cemetery are not a real picture of Mostar. In the city on the Neretva, love and tolerance flourish only in the eyes of politicians in power, just as it has been shown these days in Janja, Srebrenica, Prijedor, Banja Luka…

The shots around the mosques, the Chetnik choreography during Christmas meant to scare the returnees, the president of the SNSD, Milorad Dodik, sees only as random acts of individuals who need to be prosecuted. He is denied by the justified suspicion of the Party for BiH representatives from Prijedor that the provocations of Bosniaks and the glorification of war criminals that took place in front of the city mosque were organized by Serb extremists who were accompanied by police.

That the relativization of evil is only a political mantra was proved by the parade of the RS police units, which should probably protect all RS citizens.

- For the cross, for the cross of Nemanjić, for glory, for the glory of Obilić! - sang the special forces who should protect all citizens of RS.

With a song saying that ‘there are more Serbs than the leaves, there are no more communists’, the RS Ministry of the Interior agreed to publicly paint themselves as the Chetniks, which institutionally sends a message to other peoples that RS was not made to be their home.

Fascism raised its head in BiH a long time ago, and that is, whether Marić agrees or not, the image of Mostar, Banja Luka and all cities in BiH where provocations and incidents no longer occur only sporadically. Marić, as an exponent of the SDA's policy of successfully dividing people in Mostar with the HDZ for years, and only successfully ‘liberating’ citizens from public goods by transferring them to party tycoons, should finally admit his mistakes and stop relativizing the evil that threatens to lead to wider conflicts.

Unlike Marić and others like him, whose policy has long been fueled by interethnic incidents, many returnees have not slept peacefully for a long time. Marić’s and the task of all politicians who sincerely care about peace and coexistence in BiH should be to resolutely oppose policies that base their survival and campaign on the actions of extremists on the ground.

Everything we live in BiH today reminds me of the Facebook status of Ahmed Burić after the published election results in 2018. Desperate Buric wrote: "The EU does not want us, we do not know ourselves. Happy four more years of this. Whoever is left last, leave the key at the United States Embassy. "

From this perspective, Buric's prophetic ability was shown, which could be even more desperate this year if electronic voting and ballot counting are not ensured in the next elections. If the policies that have divided and kept us in the dark for 25 years are not punished, then the key should not be left anywhere because we will have nothing to unlock.

Everything we live in BiH today reminds me of the status of Ahmed Burić on Facebook after the published election results in 2018. Desperate Burić wrote: ‘The EU does not want us, alone we don’t know how. Happy four more years of this. Whoever is left last, leave the key at the United States Embassy.’

From this perspective, Burić's prophetic ability cannot be doubted. He could be even more desperate this year if electronic voting and ballot counting are not ensured in the next elections. If the policies that have divided and kept us in the dark for 25 years are not punished, then the key should not be left anywhere because there will be nothing to unlock.