Serbian paper condemns "hysterical" Srebrenica
blame campaign
BBC Monitoring Europe - Political - July 1, 2005, Friday
Excerpt from commentary by Miodrag Zarkovic: "Srebrenica and reaction",
published by Serbian newspaper Glas javnosti on 29 June
An action provokes a reaction. There is no simpler or truer principle. If you
are a wife beater, your daughter is certain to fall in love with a local thug.
This law of nature operates on us Serbs as well. If every night, before going to
bed, we are told the story of Srebrenica, we will wish never to hear it again in
our lives. If every sitting of the parliament turns into a quarrel about
Srebrenica, next time we will elect a parliament that will quarrel about
something else. If you continue to invite Natasa Kandic [chairperson of the
Humanitarian Law Centre NGO] as a guest on your show, we will change
channels....
Ever since the footage about the Scorpions' crime was screened, we have been
watching a veritable Olympic Games of NGO profiteers. Natasa Kandic and Co. have
barely been able to rush from the B92 television studio to an exhibition about
Srebrenica, then on to their seats at a roundtable on Srebrenica, rushing off
again to a conference on Srebrenica, then a mad dash to a debate on Srebrenica,
from which they would move on to a forum on Srebrenica, in order to end up by
attending a rally on Srebrenica. And all the while making regular statements to
foreign media, which project them as local pillars of democracy and freedom of
opinion, about their "martyrdom" in exposing the "truth" about Srebrenica....
At the same time, Bojan Pajtic, acting on behalf of the Vojvodina Executive
Council, proposes that Serbia should observe a day of mourning for Srebrenica,
while the organizers of the Egzit [music festival] have decided that the entire
festival should fall silent for a few minutes in the night of 10-11 July in
memory of Srebrenica....
The hysterical "all Serbs are to blame for Srebrenica" campaign will finally
make us think: "We have had enough of the 'truth' about Srebrenica." An action
triggers a reaction.
You know, the Americans will never pass a resolution on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
not to mention Iraq, Milica Rakic [Belgrade toddler killed in NATO air strikes
in 1999], Red Indians [ellipsis as published] The English will never declare a
day of mourning for the Falkland Islands. The Croats have no intention of
silencing the Split music festival over Jasenovac [World War II death camp] or
the strafing of refugee columns in Operations Flash and Storm. I will bet you
that the Bosniaks will not apologize, not in 100 years, for the killing of Serbs
in Sarajevo or the Srebrenica area.
Serbs, however, instead of learning from the Americans, the English, the Croats
and the Bosniaks, keep clamouring about crimes "committed in our name". It is no
wonder, then, that the US Senate has adopted a special resolution branding us as
the sole culprits for a crime that happened 10 years earlier.
It is quite possible that this is all connected: if you clamour about crimes
"committed in your name", the Senate slams you down. The law of action and
reaction in operation.
SOURCE: Glas javnosti, Belgrade, in Serbian 29
Jun 05 p 3
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