PUBLIC ANGER

Sabina Ćudić sparked sharp reactions: This is worse than what Željana Zovko says

Ćudić concealed the fact that the RS Army was the aggressor and that it burned down the building where she held a reception for high-ranking EU officials

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Sabina Ćudić, president of Our Party, sparked public anger when she spoke about the aggression against BiH at a reception for European parliamentarians in the Vijećnica. Namely, Ćudić concealed the fact that the RS Army was the aggressor and that it burned down the building where she held a reception for high-ranking EU officials.

The conflicts we experienced in this great city, in a building that was burned to the ground, are not ethnic, not religious, not between Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims, not even between religious groups, it is a struggle for power, and I refuse to believe, because I have spent most of my life here, that this city and this state are connected with such conflicts - Sabina Ćudić stated in the Vijećnica.

This statement sparked a wave of reactions and Colonel Sead Jusić spoke about this topic with Hayat. He said that the people have become convinced that there is even worse rhetoric than that of Željana Zovko. He believes this is a condescending policy, a policy of flattering some powerful figures.

In our people it is said that there is always something worse than the worst. Those who thought there was no worse story than the one told by Željana Zovko, have now been convinced that it can be worse. Because what Ms. Ćudić said is even worse. Simply, it is difficult to find both the words and the reasoning, actually there is no need to look for it. This is a condescending policy of flattery, probably towards some powerful figures, because the woman speaks of power. And what someone says about someone else is essentially what happens to them. The word stupidity would not be appropriate at all, because stupidity is spoken by people out of ignorance. This is about a malicious statement and definition of aggression against our homeland, our capital city and our struggle.

Jusić recommended that Ćudić read at least some stenographic records in which crimes that the Serbian army planned to commit in BiH are openly discussed.

The lady should just read parts from various stenographic records, but I will mention one from February 2nd and 3rd, when the supreme command of the so-called Republic of Srpska and the Serbian army convenes in Pale, where it says, and it was said many times by the president and war criminal Radovan Karadžić, that in the future Yugoslavia the maximum number of Muslims would be one hundred thousand. So, from that, absolutely everything has been said about the nature of aggression, about the plans of both greater Serbian and greater Croatian policies in that sense.

Jusić believes that in this way Ćudić offends the feelings of the most numerous people and the most numerous religious group in the state.

She is certainly aware of all this, as she is an educated woman, but this political project that is based on some multicultural reasoning, because I deliberately call it that, has no real basis in multiculturalism and coexistence in BiH. Because in this way to marginalize and offend the most numerous people and the most numerous religious community and strike at our feelings is to say the least perverted.

Alija Hodžić, vice president of the Association of Parents of Children Killed in Besieged Sarajevo '92 - '95, told Hayat that he heard from parents of children killed in Sarajevo about Ćudić's speech. He reminded once again of the verdicts of the Hague tribunal.

I heard about Sabina Ćudić's speech from some parents of killed children. However, whatever she said and even if she claims there was no aggression against BiH, there was aggression against BiH from Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. This is very well known. The international Hague tribunal also ruled that there was aggression against BiH, that terrible crimes and genocides occurred in BiH, especially when we take into account the besieged Sarajevo. So in modern history, one city where the people suffered and were mistreated so much and 11,540 civilians were killed, of which 1,601 were children, then the facts alone and the numbers speak that it was one of the most terrible crimes.

Hodžić called on Ćudić that if she does not know about the aggression in BiH and that genocide was committed, she can learn about it from the Association of Parents, adding that he has never seen her at commemorations of the children killed in Sarajevo.

Therefore, Ms. Sabina Ćudić, as a leader of one political option, one party, I am amazed and surprised by you because you presented yourself to the people as a great patriot of this state and this city. However, the struggle for positions and power apparently affects many, and apparently you as well, so now you have begun to completely distort the facts in a different way, those that happened here. I do not know if you are trying to help someone else, but do not forget that this is also your city and that you should stand with these citizens. I am ashamed. You have never been at the monument to the children killed. I at least have not seen you come to remember that it is a monument to the children killed in besieged Sarajevo. I do not know if you were at other places, I have not seen that either. So Ms. Sabina, come, listen, listen to these parents, listen to these people who experienced it.

Amina Čorbo-Zećo, journalist of the Patria agency, commented on Ćudić's controversial statement for Hayat. She said that such performances directly offend the victims and humiliate the heroic resistance of BiH. She also reminded that the Minister of Communication and Transport, Edin Forto (Our Party), did something similar recently.

Anyone who tries to present the siege of Sarajevo, genocide and systematic crimes as an ordinary struggle for power directly offends the victims and humiliates the heroic resistance of BiH. Not to mention that such statements also annul the verdicts of international courts. Such messages are not accidental, they represent a continuity of a policy by which responsibility is being obscured and the aggressor hidden behind a story of everyone being equally guilty.

We witness this before the BiH Court, where the BiH Prosecution mostly prosecutes members of the RBiH Army in a way that attempts to equate all sides, victim and aggressor. Not much time has passed since Edin Forto did the same in the most despicable way. We will also remember his statement, also in the Vijećnica, in which he bowed to some leaders from Siroki Brijeg.

Čorbo-Zećo said that it is especially abhorrent that it was said in the Vijećnica, a symbol of Sarajevo's suffering. It is particularly indicative that such a statement comes from a person whose father was a highly positioned officer of the RBiH Army, Čorbo-Zećo said.

And it is especially abhorrent that it was said in the Vijećnica, a symbol of Sarajevo's suffering. This is a political and moral scandal that raises questions of responsibility but also resignations. There is not much difference between this statement and what Milorad Dodik says.

All that was needed was to mention a Serbian relative and to complete the story. And what is particularly indicative is that such a statement came from a person whose father was a highly positioned officer of the RBiH Army, according to Hayat.ba