Comments on: Serbia: Reactions to the ICJ Verdict http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 27 May 2012 16:56:01 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ana Jancic http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1189199 Ana Jancic Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:15:09 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/#comment-1189199 Vedrana, the genocide in Sarajevo has been done, but also there have been genocides in western Herzegovina and in different parts of Bosnia and Croatia done by all three sides. I don't want to measure here who is more or less guilty, the crime is crime and the human life is human life. I suppose the worst things were happening in Sarajevo and Mostar, and it is really sad, as they were the best two cities in BiH before. I also have many friends that came from war who are either Serbs, or Muslims or mixture or Serbs, Croats and Muslims. I also have family members who survived genocide done by Croats Ustase in NDH during WW2, and they can never forget that. They just talk about those tortures every single day in their homes. It is not important whether the West will make Serbia guilty for the genocide anymore, as much as it is important that internal conflicts between people within ex-Yugoslavia to be solved. That HATE between people that are having exactly the same heritage, which have received different religions because of unfortunate historical conditions need to be removed and all wounds that have been made in WW2 and in recent war need to be healed ones and forever, and it has to be initiated by people of good will in ex-Yugoslavia's countries, not by some external western forces. As they are all brothers no matter how much they hate or love each other. Vedrana, the genocide in Sarajevo has been done, but also there have been genocides in western Herzegovina and in different parts of Bosnia and Croatia done by all three sides. I don’t want to measure here who is more or less guilty, the crime is crime and the human life is human life. I suppose the worst things were happening in Sarajevo and Mostar, and it is really sad, as they were the best two cities in BiH before. I also have many friends that came from war who are either Serbs, or Muslims or mixture or Serbs, Croats and Muslims. I also have family members who survived genocide done by Croats Ustase in NDH during WW2, and they can never forget that. They just talk about those tortures every single day in their homes.

It is not important whether the West will make Serbia guilty for the genocide anymore, as much as it is important that internal conflicts between people within ex-Yugoslavia to be solved. That HATE between people that are having exactly the same heritage, which have received different religions because of unfortunate historical conditions need to be removed and all wounds that have been made in WW2 and in recent war need to be healed ones and forever, and it has to be initiated by people of good will in ex-Yugoslavia’s countries, not by some external western forces. As they are all brothers no matter how much they hate or love each other.

]]> By: Ana Jancic http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1189196 Ana Jancic Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:56:11 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/#comment-1189196 And it is also not important whether the West will make Serbia guilty for the genocide anymore, as much as it is important that internal conflicts between people within ex-Yugoslavia to be solved. That hate between people that are having exactly the same heritage, but which have received different religions because of certain unfortunate historical conditions need to be removed and all wounds that have been made in WW2 and in recent war need to be healed ones and forever, and it has to be initiated by people in Yugoslavia, not by some external western forces. And it is also not important whether the West will make Serbia guilty for the genocide anymore, as much as it is important that internal conflicts between people within ex-Yugoslavia to be solved. That hate between people that are having exactly the same heritage, but which have received different religions because of certain unfortunate historical conditions need to be removed and all wounds that have been made in WW2 and in recent war need to be healed ones and forever, and it has to be initiated by people in Yugoslavia, not by some external western forces.

]]> By: Ana J. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1189194 Ana J. Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:28:21 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/#comment-1189194 Vedrana, I know that terrible things were happening in Sarajevo from 1991 until 1995. I suppose that Sarajevo and Mostar were two cities that suffered the most during that time. They were also cities that had the biggest heart in old Yugoslavia, which is extremely sad. The genocide was happening in Sarajevo, but the genocides and fights were happening also in western Herzegovina and all other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and also Croatia between all three sides. I don't want to count the crime here and to measure who was the most evil, crime is crime and human life is human life!!! The sad story is that this stupid war created the enormous hate between people that are having the same roots, and which are the same in almost everything: language, culture and characters, except in religion. There were terrible things also happening in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Croatia during the WW2 and now again 1991-1995, I am just wondering whether those people in BiH and Croatia will ever start living together as brothers, which they are no matter how much they hate or love each other. I know in my family people that have survived Genocide done by Croats Ustase in NDH during WW2 and they still talk about that all the time in their homes. The God is one no matter whether we are Catholics, Orthodox or Muslims either by birth or by choice, and He can never forgive hate in human heart and doing evil things by humans. Vedrana, I know that terrible things were happening in Sarajevo from 1991 until 1995. I suppose that Sarajevo and Mostar were two cities that suffered the most during that time. They were also cities that had the biggest heart in old Yugoslavia, which is extremely sad. The genocide was happening in Sarajevo, but the genocides and fights were happening also in western Herzegovina and all other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and also Croatia between all three sides. I don’t want to count the crime here and to measure who was the most evil, crime is crime and human life is human life!!! The sad story is that this stupid war created the enormous hate between people that are having the same roots, and which are the same in almost everything: language, culture and characters, except in religion. There were terrible things also happening in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Croatia during the WW2 and now again 1991-1995, I am just wondering whether those people in BiH and Croatia will ever start living together as brothers, which they are no matter how much they hate or love each other. I know in my family people that have survived Genocide done by Croats Ustase in NDH during WW2 and they still talk about that all the time in their homes. The God is one no matter whether we are Catholics, Orthodox or Muslims either by birth or by choice, and He can never forgive hate in human heart and doing evil things by humans.

]]> By: johnnykola http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1188337 johnnykola Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:11:44 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/#comment-1188337 vedrana, sve sto mogu napisati je da si totalno u krivu, u gresci. i njami ce ti to potvrdit.:) zivila! nikola vedrana, sve sto mogu napisati je da si totalno u krivu, u gresci. i njami ce ti to potvrdit.:)
zivila!
nikola

]]> By: Vedrana Katavic http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-812960 Vedrana Katavic Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:07:30 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/02/serbia-reactions-to-the-icj-verdict/#comment-812960 I am a Bosnian. Not a "Bosniak" Muslim, not a Croat Catholic, not a Serb Orthodox. Why should I call myself Croat or Serb if I wasn't born in either of the two countries? Neither were my parents or grandparents. Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox or Jewish? Nope. Neither one. I'm a secular mut. Plain Bosnian. I lived through the war, smack in the middle of it, in Sarajevo. I feel terribly sad and disappointed that, once again, the good didn't win over the evil... We didn't plan it. We didn't ask for it. We didn't "imagine" these things happening to us and we sure didn't do this to ourselves! Our population literally got halved within three years (mortality + emigration)... and after all this suffering we needed some kind of closure. I needed some kind of closure, and for everyone to stop calling what happened a freakin' civil war. There was nothing civil about it. GENOCIDE! Sarajevo was under siege. The longest siege in the history of human kind and 1395 longest days of my life. 1395 days I was hungry. 1395 days I was cold. 1395 days I was scared. 1395 sunsets and sunrises that I thought might be my last. 1395 times a sniper shot at me and missed. 1395 kids that weren't so lucky... And today... today I got nothing to feel better about! ... but, I was there, I lived it, I KNOW THE TRUTH, I will never forget and I know what I'm going to tell my children. I am a Bosnian. Not a “Bosniak” Muslim, not a Croat Catholic, not a Serb Orthodox. Why should I call myself Croat or Serb if I wasn’t born in either of the two countries? Neither were my parents or grandparents.
Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox or Jewish? Nope. Neither one. I’m a secular mut. Plain Bosnian. I lived through the war, smack in the middle of it, in Sarajevo.

I feel terribly sad and disappointed that, once again, the good didn’t win over the evil…
We didn’t plan it. We didn’t ask for it. We didn’t “imagine” these things happening to us and we sure didn’t do this to ourselves! Our population literally got halved within three years (mortality + emigration)… and after all this suffering we needed some kind of closure. I needed some kind of closure, and for everyone to stop calling what happened a freakin’ civil war.
There was nothing civil about it. GENOCIDE!
Sarajevo was under siege. The longest siege in the history of human kind and 1395 longest days of my life.
1395 days I was hungry.
1395 days I was cold.
1395 days I was scared.
1395 sunsets and sunrises that I thought might be my last.
1395 times a sniper shot at me and missed.
1395 kids that weren’t so lucky…
And today… today I got nothing to feel better about!

… but, I was there, I lived it, I KNOW THE TRUTH, I will never forget and I know what I’m going to tell my children.

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