NIZ: Jedan od malobrojnih poštenih i iskrenih iskaza sa srpske strane o #Krajina i #Oluja. Od onoga koji je na kraju svoje postupke svojom odlukom i svojom rukom platio glavom:
“Izlazim pred ovaj Tribunal s dubokim osjećajem sramote i kajanja. Dozvolio sam sebi da sudjelujem /2
2/ u progonu najgore vrste, protiv ljudi, samo zato što su oni bili Hrvati, a ne Srbi. Nevini ljudi su bili proganjani, nevini ljudi su nasilno istjerani iz svojih kuća i nevini ljudi su ubijani. Čak i nakon što sam saznao što se dogodilo šutio sam o tome. Još gore, nastavio /3
3/ sam sa službom i kroz moje vlastite aktivnosti postajao osobno odgovoran za nehumane postupke koji su pogodili nevine ljude.
Žaljenje koje osjećam zbog toga je bol s kojom moram živjeti ostatak života. Ovi zločini i moje sudjelovanje u njima nikada ne mogu biti opravdani. /4
4/ Ostajem bez riječi kada trebam da izrazim dubinu moga kajanja za ono što sam učinio i za utjecaj moga grijeha na druge. Mogu se samo nadati da iznoseći istinu, priznanjem krivice i izražavanjem mog kajanja mogu poslužiti kao primjer onima koji još pogrešno vjeruju da takva /5
5/ nečovječna postupanja mogu ikada biti opravdana. Samo istina može dati šansu srpskom narodu da se rastereti kolektivne sramote.
Samo priznanjem krivice ja mogu preuzeti odgovornost za sve pogrešno što sam uradio. Ja se nadam da svojim kajanjem mogu bar malo olakšati patnju /6
6/ onima koji su patili.
Shvatio sam da nam neprijateljstva i podjeljenost nikada ne mogu poslužiti da bolje živimo. Shvatio sam da naša pripadnost istoj ljudskoj vrsti je značajnija od bilo koje razlike između nas. Shvatio sam da samo kroz naše međusobno razumijevanje i /7
7/ pomirenje možemo imati šansu da živimo kao ljudi u miru i tako osiguramo bolju budućnost za našu djecu i generacije koje dolaze.
Molio sam Boga da mi pomogne da se pokajem i zahvaljujem Bogu na mogućnosti koju mi je pružio da izrazim svoje kajanje. Molim moju braću Hrvate /8
8/ da oproste svojoj braći Srbima.
Preklinjem moj srpski narod da ostavi prošlost iza sebe i okrene se budućnosti gdje će dobro, suosjećanje i pravda na neki način olakšati rezultate zla u kome sam i sam sudjelovao... KRAJ
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THREAD In 1995 after #Oluja I reported from #Bosnia on #Serb refugees fleeing #Croatia.
A guy, 25 driving a tractor loaded w/ women & children shouts: “Hey, jounalist, remember me?” I didn’t. “In July 91 [after Struga massacre] you told my commander ‘your parastate [#Krajina] /2
2/ can’t exist, you should find a way to reconcile with #Croatia, it is your country'. They kept telling us we’ll never lose, that Serbia is behind us, but as time went on I oft thought about your words. I sensed you were right & we were headed for our own destruction”. Then & /3
3/ there I had nothing to tell him. Every refugee said “our own army ordered us to head away from home”. It was a cynical calculation by Serb leadership (I cannot claim whether Croatian Serbs decided on their own or if Milošević & the Karadžić lot from Bosnia influenced it). /4
2/ vs. #Ecumenical Patriarch of #Constantinople. Most of numerous traditional cleavages within SPC (Young Lions vs. Old Guards); Serbians vs. TransDrinians; ecumenicals vs. hardline Orthodox etc. will be irrelevant with only the split between Russian vs. Greek students, roughly/3
3/corresponding with main division: support for whatever "solution" President Vucic might propose to satisfy int'l demand to at least de facto recognize Kosovo vs. stubborn refusal to accept anything not in line with current Serbian constitution that says #KosovoJeSrbija. /4
THREAD #OTD in 1918 elected representatives from South Slav lands of former Austria-Hungary address non-elected King of #Serbia expressing their desire to create a joint state, initially under lame name of Kingdom of #Serbs, #Croats & #Slovenes (SHS), later renamed #Yugoslavia /2
2/ An archetypical #Balkans business: well-intended, ill prepared, poorly executed. All sides try to cheat & gain advantage over their partners, with biggest & strongest imposing their will at force whenever they can, at same time paying lip service to equality and brotherhood /3
3/ So begin lies, manipulations & exploitation of good intentions for selfish means. The only politician with a vision who could turn that mess into a sort-of-modern state is assassinated in parliament, precisely for calling to stop endless retelling of myths & move forward /4
THREAD As I have my #Bosnia#War diaries out & it's 28 years from 1st #UnitedNations food convoy into #Srebrenica, 6 months under siege:
On 25/11/1992 UN French Gen Morillon announces a convoy with 150 tons of food, some of it also to go to #Serb town of Bratunac, not besieged /2
2/ 26/11 UN convoy reaches Bratunac, is met by "spontaneous resistance" by local Serbs (some bussed in from Serbia across Drina river). Bosnian Serb military commanders declare themself helpless as "people are democratically expressing their anger at UN feeding enemy 'Turks'"/3
3/ 27/11 Same "spontaneity" again. Several hundred "local widows" telling UN (in same phrases) they will not let them through. Dutch convoy commander arrogant & incompetent, Beligian Army truckies helpless, Ukrainian escort disinterested, BSArmy saying cannot oppose people. /4
Loptanje mi je prilično idiotska aktivnost. #Maradona me posebno nervirao, umišljeni #CheGuevara na brdu kokaina i prijatelj apologete klanja i ubijanja Nemanje Srbina.
Ali to je moje privatno mišljenje. Stručno je da bi večeras SVAKI #TVdnevnik morao početi njime.
Znam, znam
Može i gore @RTS_Vesti : #COVID19 (Predsednik #Vucic je...) #covid škole i vrtići #Srbija ekonomski gigant, nove investicije
Dan borbe protiv nasilja nad ženama
Otvorena izložba venčanica #Maradona
THREAD #PopeFrancis gives rare interview to #Serbia semi-official daily @PolitikaOnline. But as "Francisko", a name that in Serbian evokes sombreroed Mexican bandits rather than @Pontifex. Who is responsible for this #Vatican PR disaster? None other than Papal Nuntius to Serbia/2
Appreciate if someone knows of a way to connect this thread together, in right order 1-9. Thanks
2/Archbishop Luciano Suriani who personally interfered into a linguistic/cultural issue in language/culture that he does not know or understand.
When elected, every #Pope takes a regnal name that is always in #Latin, official language of #HolySee. Since time immemorial every /3