The essence of all Serbian problems is that crimes go unpunished, and punishments are handed down without crimes. The death of 16 people in Novi Sad overflowed the barrel filled with cases of lawlessness
A Saudi man who hates Islam killed people with his car at a Christmas market. He claimed he was being persecuted, believed Angela Merkel deserved the death penalty... And now his crime will play a role in the German election campaign
For the crime in Podrinje in which 3.267 Serbs were killed, no one was held accountable either before the judiciary in BiH or at the Hague Tribunal
Uncle Uroš Blažić's brother, accused of mass murder in the villages of Malo Orašje and Dubona, was sentenced to a prison sentence of one year and six months for the criminal offense of illegal production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive materials in complicity.
A quarter of a century since the bombing, nobody has learned anything. In Serbia, we decided to tell half-truths to each other and use our victims as trump cards in the prolonged showdown for "our cause".
A couple of parents from Dubona lost both children. They live from agriculture. When they deliver their goods to someone, sometimes they never get paid for it. They simply have no way to pay for their work if someone who owes them is "above the law". That man is in a pre-infarction state and the first thing the doctor advised him was that he should not do physical work. But he tells us: "What am I going to do if I can't work, how can I live, and even when I work, they cheat me." In fact, they all live with a "built-in", learned acceptance that injustice is a part of this life. They say so themselves, they are reconciled with that: "We are used to injustice, that's how life is."
The Museum of Victims in Belgrade has collected the names of 84.796 Jasenovac victims, but in public statements experts from that institution estimate that between 122.300 and 130.100 people perished in Jasenovac. By 2018, 83.811 names and surnames of persons who died in the camp had been collected in the Jasenovac Memorial Area. It seems that we are finally on the right track to overcome the ugly political and propagandist bids on the number of Jasenovic victims, which for decades prevented that traumatic subject from being approached more objectively and calmly historiographically
