By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
Resolution of the Montenegrin assembly has prohibited public denial of the Srebrenica genocide.
The Montenegrin political caste received applause from the so-called international community for that. Abazovic wandered around Sarajevo and Srebrenica like a peacock, accompanied by about twenty ravens from the National Security Agency, ANB. Becic delivered a historically stupid and stupidly insidious speech. And Djukanovic carried the coffin of a murdered Srebrenica man – he is so sorry that at the time of the genocide, he was on, as it’s euphemistically said today, the “wrong side of history”.
In practice, that resolution is a bad, very bad joke causing deep depression instead laugh.
Not only there are no sanctions for denying the genocide: mayor or Niksic denied it, and the Democrats refused to deprive him of their political support for mocking the resolution they themselves had voted for.
But in Montenegro, as of today, it’s undesirable to witness about the Srebrenica genocide in practice.
After the announcement that the brilliant “Quo Vadis, Aida?” movie, directed by Jasmila Zbanic, will be screened at the Green Montenegro International Film Festival in the town of Zabljak, the Mayor of Zabljak, decided to censor the movie about the genocide in Srebrenica.
It was not an autocratic gesture, but he did it in a subtle way, almost democratically…
“Reactions that the movie triggered made us recommend the organizer to reconsider showing the movie and instead find an adequate replacement that will have the artistic reach required by the character of the festival,” said the host of Zabljak, Veselin Vukicevic.
But wait… Vukicevic is a member of the DPS that’s in power in Zabljak.
Which means that the DPS in Niksic urges dismissal of Kovacevic for denying the Srebrenica genocide, while their sheriff in Zabljak censors the movie about the genocide that tells the truth in an artistic and superior way.
Did Djukanovic visit Srebrenica so that the DPS official now prohibits screening of the most accurate movie about Srebrenica? In addition, was the SDP of the 90s an anti-war party only to be able to secure a majority in Tivat today for a brutal rerun of the 1990s in the summerhouse of Buca-Lukovic?
It’s the unlikely story. What has happened then? Houston, we’ve had a problem – a famous quote says.
What now? Will the DPS distance itself from an unprecedented, shameless, truly cavernous attempt at censorship? Will the SDP continue to fight against Greater Serbia nationalism, except where they are holding it in power in order to be able to carry out party positioning?
That’s not enough. With the own goals scored by the parties of the sovereignist bloc in Žabljak and Tivat, every fight against the new government is in vain and leads first to well-deserved ridicule, then to a heavy, even heavier defeat.
Things are quite simple: if the DPS and SDP care about authenticity more than thin air, they should dismiss Vukicevic and overthrow the government in Tivat.
