Creating chaos: Two big inquisitors starting a chase

By: Sead Omeragic

The Ministry of Interior of Republika Srpska impeached 16 Croatian generals - inter alia Ante Gotovina, Damir Krsticevic, Mladen Kruljac and Zeljko Glasnovic. If they enter the territory of BiH, they could well be arrested.

Are all state borders the problem for those generals or will they have a problem only at BH borders?

The mention of HV general Ante Gotovina in the new indictments from the Ministry of Interior of RS, has raised the key question: What is the new evidence against him 21 years after the war, which the Tribunal did not have during the trial? How come the RS Ministry of Interior did not submit the evidence to the Hague so as to complete the evidence in the trial of Gotovina? Why did they keep silent at the time, was that in the name of some other goals?

Last several years, the Serb and Croat sides have been arresting Bosniaks across the world.

There were about 20 extraditions of such people from the US and EU. It seemed that only Bosniaks fought in the war and committed crimes. It looked like a sequel of the war agreed between Milosevic and Tudjman. Those Bosniaks were tried at the courts and today in BiH those verdicts are not spoken about. The persecutions proved once more that secret agreements between Belgrade and Zagreb are behind everything.

Only few did not understand how come that the third nation was (absurdly) guilty in the conflict between the Serbs and the Croats.

Today we get to see another form of this doing. One can hear threats of arrests for alleged war crimes all over BiH. Who can stop that chaos? Will the prosecutor's offices stop these 'freelancers' who read out verdicts on media? Here, everyone is allowed to present their accusations in the media space and threaten with indictments and arrests as they please.

Serbia behaves as a 'little Hague' for the region. They have chased BH citizens such as Ganic, Divjak and Oric at airports. At the same time, they have not impeached the war criminals walking freely in their towns. As the chase after BH citizens failed, no one cared to ask who is responsible for the horrors the innocent had to endure.

The EU requested Serbia to stop misusing the Law on universal jurisdiction. However, Belgrade is still behave as the 'little Hague'; Belgrade, the capital of the country that took part in the war, whose entire political and military top was convicted by the Hague Tribunal and sentenced for a long time, the country that was found guilty before the World Court of Justice for failure to prevent genocide. Nothing. Serbia still rules its neighbors and distributes justice.

All that gives rise to suspicion that BiH has to put up with a chaos programmed by its neighbors and its own citizens who are loyal followers of Belgrade and Zagreb. Numerous accusations and publicly read indictments are aimed at creating tensions and throwing BiH in yet another chaos, and painting a picture of an unstable state without rule of law.

Zagreb was the first to start such actions when it accused Bosniaks of arrests in Orasje. After two HV generals confessed that they were superior officers to general of HVO Djuro Matuzovic, which created a serious problem to the 'movie directors'.

Is our judiciary strong enough to stop the increasing public threats and accusations? It all looks like public lynch of the innocent. Where is the respect for presumption of the innocence?

Bosnia and Herzegovina is faced with two of its big inquisitors, yet again. The hunt is open on both the guilty and the innocent.