On leaders who take more than they give

By: Sead Omeragic

The Serb and Croat politics in BiH listens to what Belgrade and Zagreb have to say. Bosniak politics listens in on 'remarks' and 'comments' of the foreign diplomats in BiH, which they accept and implement without much thinking or delay.

Bosniak leaders think of their own obedience as 'cooperation' with the international factor. It would be good to conduct surveys instead of elections: We elect the most obedient Bosniak politicians.

Each time the 'foreigners' recommend to the Bosniak politics to fight against corruption, a rapid and efficient response follows by the police and our independent judiciary. They open the drawers to dig out cases covered with dust, criminal groups get arrested and small time criminals end up in jail. Otherwise, Bosniak leaders would never initiate such a campaign because most of them are heavily corrupted. Suffice to see their assets and compare them against their salaries.

So what is the economic result of the Bosniak national rule? Zero. Their corruption has eaten away all the past years... What is the point of their 'politics for sake of the politics’? They are organized in political parties, they pledge loyalty to their leader, they tune in to the party discipline, they introduce 'oath of silence'. 

However, as soon as they step in from the party to the realm of state power, they become private persons and their metamorphosis begins. They begin to hire their family members, their income skyrockets, they take, and they steal as if it is their last breath and bite, and simply forget about the mother party.

When asked about their vision for the development and employment, the Bosniak politicians explain: The development itself is not our responsibility, we only create conditions for the development and the employment. What kind of conditions have they created given that we are at the pit bottom of Europe?

Then the leader of the strongest Bosniak party, Bakir Izetbegovic, begins to give promises about employing 100,000 people. Nobody knows the rationale of such a promise. Because the conditions have been status quo for over two decades.

The old conditions persist: 8 months wait period for license for a company, hundreds of fiscal and parafiscal taxes, tens of bureaucratic parasites, with the omnipresent rule of bribe in the long chain of greed. What is the economic result of our diplomacy, which Izetbegovic has just spread out across the world? What have his Bosniak diplomats done to attract investments? Investments are attractive but so far they have only been winking at us. What do 'foreigners' of our diplomats say?

At least upon the foundations of the Bosniak one third, a state with rule of law, social justice and respect for human beings should have been established. It is because of the greed of the Bosniak leaders that almost 400,000 of the unemployed people in Federation have been transformed into mere shadows with souls without dignity.

Do Bosniak leaders fear their relationship with the nation that survived genocide and the most horrific crimes? Is there some level in this general destruction at which they may be ready to prove and defend their humanity? Why, for example, our political leaders keep silent while Croatia and Serbia attack the sovereignty of BiH? Why don't they stand up to defend this country at each threat to divide it further, why don't they respond to the insults thrown at us these days by Grabar-Kitarovic and Plenkovic, and previously Vucic and Nikolic?

Whom do they represent? Should they not respond each time our country receives a threat? Most of the times, it is foreign diplomats who defend our sovereignty and not our leaders.

However, our political representatives do have space and time for gentle conversations full of tolerance, one could even say chatting, with those who advocate dividing of this country. The best children gave their lives defending this country against hegemonic predators. Their current leaders can't even give their word.