Nisu mi dnevnici pri ruci pa ne znam precizno datum, ali bilo je između 8. i 15.12.1992, dakle pola godine od početka rata. Radio sam reportažu o snimanju nove epizode #TopListaNadrealista na @MultimedijaBHRT. Bila je glad, civili su masovno ginuli, pali su Doglodi, Bare, Azići/2
2/ #UnitedNations general Srboljub Mackenzie dozvolio je Mladiću da preko aerodromske piste prebaci u borbu 4 tenka. TLN okrene na šegu i ispjeva pjesmicu:
"Preko piste se vozaju,
tenkove krit ne moraju,
četnik ti je pravi džiber,
prosvjeduje Stjepan Šiber".)
Vrlo je napeto, /3
3/ svima jasno da #Sarajevo očas može pasti i da svakoga može ubiti granata sa Pala na kojima je Nele. Neizostavno pitanje o Neletu. Svi do jednog kažu "ma ima malo dijete, neka je otišao, morao je, nije on četnik". Kaže mi @BoroKontic "čini mi se da su se ovog puta zajebali" END
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THREAD Re. today's expected flood of "Dear #Tito" tweets: #OTD 25 May, is birth anniversary of former #Yugoslavia leader Josip Broz Tito. Many call it his #birthday although he has been dead for 43 yrs. I do not wish to rain on their parade, merely offer my own and my family's /2
2/ memories of Tito:
My late father Vladimir started studying medicine in 1949. At the end of 1st semester, in January 1950, someone denounced him to the University #Communist Youth (of which he was NOT a member) as "enemy of the State". The police state, of which Tito was /3
3/ undisputed leader as Prime Minister &, more importantly, Secretary General of the Communist Party, acted in its usual exemplary way & threw one Vladimir Kusovac out of university in no time. So dad went to do his national service that was to last for 12 months. But #War /4
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
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
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