Banksy wrote:vee-jay wrote:mozel' link za clanak pa da znamo kako da reagujemo? ili ce za nas da razmisljaju drugi a mi da glavama klimamo. osim toga: koji bh akademici u usa?
Koji god, u pravu su.
Syria shows we still don’t mean ‘never again’
By Ahmet Davutoglu and Zlatko Lagumdzija,August 01, 2013
Ahmet Davutoglu is Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs. Zlatko Lagumdzija is deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eighteen years ago this summer, in a town called Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, the world witnessed the murder of approximately 8,000 Bosnian men and boys and the forced deportation of nearly 30,000 women from their land. Thus Srebrenica became a byword for not only the brutality of the three-year conflict in the former Yugoslavia but also of humanity at its most evil and depraved.
Unlike many organisms, humans are capable of learning from their mistakes. Srebrenica was one tragic mistake with a big lesson.
Yet 18 years after the atrocities of Srebrenica and the trauma of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the worst humanitarian calamity of the 21st century is unfolding in Syria. In another place and another time, we are again seeing a mass tragedy. That which the world had pledged would “never again” occur is playing out once more.
After three years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the death toll was more than 300,000 and the number of refugees reached 1.3 million. In Syria, more than 100,000 people have been killed since a peaceful uprising began in 2011. More than 7 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance; 4 million are internally displaced and 1.4 million are seeking refuge in neighboring countries.
In 1992, innocent people were killed on Vase Miskina Street in Sarajevo while waiting in line to get bread. In 2013, the innocent residents of Aleppo and Homs are the targets of savagery while they try to take bread to their homes.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, civilians were attacked with heavy weapons and artillery. In Syria, civilians have dodged ballistic missiles fired on civilian areas. And it has been confirmed that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against its own people.
Ethnic cleansing was the sickening theme of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Syria, the regime ruthlessly, and apparently without shame, has massacred hundreds of civilians before the world.
Why is the global community — so many people of peace and compassion — allowing this to happen again? The international doctrine of “responsibility to protect” was crafted in response to the tragedy of Bosnia and Herzegovina. If the responsibility to protect does not apply to Syria, where does it apply?
How long will the U.N. Security Council continue to look the other way while such carnage goes on in full view? How long will the international community hold back while an estimated 5,000 Syrians lose their lives every month at the hands of the regime in Damascus? Is the world waiting for yet another apology by a U.N. secretary general for inaction in the face of a man-made humanitarian catastrophe — as happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
We are confident that the people of Syria will eventually free themselves from the shackles of this bloody regime. The will of the people always wins out. After decades of repression, they wish to live in a country where their will prevails, rather than that of autocrats; where the sovereignty belongs in its entirety to the people, who seek to enjoy universal values such as democracy, human rights, the rule of law and good governance that they have been denied.
The valiant men and women of Syria will long be remembered for their gallantry and the noble struggle they are staging for this vision.
In the 21st century, there can be no place for ruthless oppression with a medieval mentality, certainly not when the lessons of history are there to guide us.
Two decades after the horrors of Bosnia and Herzegovina, should the price for owning your freedom still be so high?
When the next generations look back on Syria’s revolution, they will judge the actions of each individual. It is time for all Syrians and the international community to take their places on the right side of history.
After all, history will keep repeating itself if no one learns from its lessons.
u pravu su ali u q.
niti sam studirao politicke znanosti niti se aktivno bavim politikom ali znam da je u tekstu koji je namjenjen Siriji, u kojem se BiH spominje kao paralela, u jednoj americkoj (jos uz to, jednoj od najznacanjnijih) novini pominjanje rijeci "genocid" tako jebeno amaterski da je ravno politickom samoubistvu.
dakle, niko ne hvali Lagumdziju radi toga sto je BiH "uvalio" u Washington Post u jednu od trenutno najaktivnijih vanjskopolitickih tema i stavio je - barem u ovom clanku - rame uz rame sa jednom Turskom (btw. da je Dodik kojim slucajem napisao clanak za Washington Post, citava RS bi sedam dana slavila dok bi BH akadamici, koliko domaci toliko i oni u USA, i za to krivili Lagumdziju).
dakle, niko ne krivi Lagumdziju radi toga sto Dodik sad na osnovu ovoga moze krenuti u novi hladni rat i zalediti sve sto se zalediti moze, do onog dana kad mu ili Lagumdzija ili Tihic ponovo ne okrenu guzu.
dakle, niko ne krivi Lagumdziju radi toga sto cetnici u Srbiju dovode muslimanske milione dok je njegov najveci uspjeh clanak u Washington Postu.
ali eto BH akademici u USA procitali novine (umjesto da pisu clanke o BiH u tim novinama) i lupom nadjose razlog kojim bi mogli da produze svoju licnu vendetu protiv Lagumdzije.
kakvi smo u drzavi takvi smo i van nje. cast izuzecima. yeah.
