What would Ivanic and Vucic have done?

Over the last 10 days, we have witnessed one of the most absurd situations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Those who have been constantly denying the state institutions and their decisions, those who have payed over 30 million US dollars to various lobbyists with the aim to dismantle BiH; those who organized unconstitutional referendums and lined up troops of BH Armed Forces as they wish... Today, they claim to be the only true protectors of the state and its institutions.  

From Mladen Ivanic to Milorad Dodik and Nedeljko Cubrilovic, today they all refer to the Constitution of BiH. Downright absurd and an insult to intelligence of all BH citizens!

The same Ivanic who admitted that Dodik forced him to line up the troops contrary to the Constitution, lest he would have been considered the traitor of the Serb people, yesterday he said:

- How far will this courting of one's own community go? In BiH, decision-making is not up to one people only.

Did Ivanic pose this question to Dodik when he organized unconstitutional referendum on 25 September, or when he as the BiH Presidency Chairman (sovereign president, as he would have it) call the RS citizens to vote.

So he did it himself and thus violated decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court,  the reason for BH Prosecutor's Office to start an investigation, with Ivanic as one of the suspects.

Thus Ivanic courted his own community on 9 January – without consent of Bakir Izetbegovic and with expected silence at the end of Dragan Covic - Ivanic, as one third of the supreme commander, took out his own 'third' of the AF members to Banja Luka's city center.  

Ivanic, known as extremely cunning and pragmatic politician, violated the Constitution of the country he is the boss of, as he did not want to be labelled as a traitor of his own people.  

Why should then Izetbegovic be labelled as a traitor of this country, and the Bosniaks as the biggest victim, but also without diminishing the significance, victims from other peoples in this country?

Had the situation been the other way around, what would Ivanic have done? And what about Vucic?

And what's with all the noise created by the politicians from the Republika Srpska that is part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which survived war of aggression and genocide?

Their behavior is a predictable continuation of 24 years long road to the justice and truth that the victims are awaiting. The decision to request a revision of the verdict does not come as a surprise. What kind of response the International Court of Justice will give, remains to be seen. It may reject the request in the first instance. Or it may run procedure to the final decision.

Nobody knows the outcome; yet Ivanic and Dodik backed by Aleksandar Vucic and Tomislav Nikolic rushed to blame Izetbegovic for everything. Also for creating instability in the region and destroying chances for reconciliation.

Is genuine reconciliation attainable at all if one refuses to admit that Milosevic's regime committed genocide and aggression in BiH?

Only the truth about the events in the bloody years of war can lead to reconciliation.

Had contemporary Serbia, with its European orientation, had enough strength and courage to adopt resolution about the genocide in Srebrenica; had it given instructions to the RS politicians to adopt the law about denying genocide at the BH Parliament, had it done the same in its own parliament, had Russia not vetoed British resolution about Srebrenica in the UN Security Council, we would have had entirely different situation in the region.

A great many things would have been different had Vucic not wasted his energy on lobbying against British resolution. Instead, he could have focused the energy on his own country and its people, to help them open up their eyes and reveal them the real truth about the war in BiH and Serbia's role in it. A great many things would have turned different had Serbia confronted all the criminals who committed crimes in BiH instead of walking freely today in Belgrade and elsewhere.

By doing so, Serbia would have showed its will for genuine reconciliation, and not the one that Vucic pro forma speaks about.

How would have Germany recovered after the World War II, to become the power it is today, had it not been for Nuremberg Trials and the great Willy Brandt. During one of his visits to Poland, he kneeled before the monument for the Polish victims of Nazism.

To apologize on behalf of one's own people for crime has become common behavior in the world. By doing so, Germany admitted its guilt and paved the way to becoming a truly democratic country.