People of Herzegovina imprisoned by the dark past

As we are nearing 8 June, the day when Mostar's stadium 'Pod Bijelim Brijegom' will host a concert organized in support of 'Herzeg-Bosnia's 6' in The Hague, reactions keep coming.

The Council of Congress of Bosniak intellectuals, SDP, DF, GS, Nasa stranka and a few local antifascist organizations from Mostar, requested yesterday Mostar city government to cancel the concert.  

The day after their request for cancellation of the assembly organized in support of the six key men of so-called Herzeg-Bosnia who are currently in The Hague awaiting the final verdict for war crimes, the organizer of the assembly, Association 'Croat Heart of Hope Mostar' publicly responded. The Association rejected the allegations that refer to the assembly as the place of spreading hatred and intolerance, and underlined that 'the group in The Hague are not any criminals but our heroes who are awaiting the verdict.'

However, in their response, they did not refer to the things that created the trouble in the first place.

Main performer in the concert will be Croatian singer Marko Perkovic Thompson, who has been banned from performing in some European countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Slovenia, due to hatred spreading through his fascist songs.

It is unlikely that Thompson will sing one kind of songs in Europe – which make civilized world ban his concerts, and another kind of songs in Mostar, those that spread peace and love.

Advertising posters invite the citizens of Mostar and Herzegovina to come the assembly of support which will be held at the stadium of the local football team 'Zrinjski'.

The stadium, which during the war HDZ forcibly took from Velez and gave to Zrinjski, the stadium built by all tax payers from Mostar, the stadium that served as a war concentration camp for Bosniaks and Serbs of Herzegovina – will soon host a person who is banned from performing in European countries on the account of 'spreading hatred'. And all that for sake of support to former leaders of so-called Herzeg-Bosnia (Prlic, Praljak, Coric, Petkovic, Stojic and Pusic), convicted of war crimes on 111 years in prison.

What is even worse than that, is the fact that the organizers of the assembly do not see anything wrong in it. Clearly, the citizens of Herzegovina are still imprisoned in the dark past of the 90-ies.