THE LIVING WORD

Živa riječ

Stephen CORKOVIC: The question is, when we have scored a victory at the highest battleground, why do we now demean our victory and those innocents who were slaughtered by, way of begging before a third-rate show? Where the main actors were silent when the World Court declared us winners and issued an Order to the world to be carried out?

It is with great sorrow that I watched the television report about the meeting of the “Mothers of Srebrenica” (Majke Srebrenice), and the mothers of “The Wall of Love” (Bedem ljubavi), and departure of the Mothers of Srebrenica to The Hague, to attend the process of a culprit, a guilty party who had already been sentenced as guilty for the Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As I have, in several articles published on the web pages www.Bosnjaci.net, and in English on www.Bosniaks.net, documented those facts invoking the relevant documents of the World Court, as well as others, that Court had, in 1993, delivered two preliminary verdicts and judgments of the Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina including two Orders to stop and prevent genocide, which Orders were directed to the “rump Yugoslavia”, as well as to the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, or, otherwise, the world. The Bosnian people have, thus, scored a victory, in the name of civilization and culture, before the premiere World Court.

That victory ought to have thunderously echoed throughout the world. The Bosnian people alone could not speak as the genocidal criminal, in spite of the Court Order, held a knife against their throats and continued to slay them long after the historic Judgment and Order. As we know, the slaughter in Srebrenica, before the eyes of the Dutch Contingent of the United Nations Organization, which had in its pockets the Order of the World Court, and which had cowardly betrayed that Order, or should I say “spat on it”, carries the date of “1995”, that is, two years after the Judgment and the Order. On the other hand, the only thing that thunderously echoed throughout the world was the deafening silence, the betrayal and denial at all levels.

The old stage play is on now where people go, to those same Dutch, to demonstrate their right, already certified by The Court, but not as victors. They go as a victim asking and crying for their right. It seems as if it is easier for the people to

accept the role of a victim rather than a victor. It is, seemingly, easier to appear as an obedient victim and beg for mercy of a master, which master even still today is turning a deaf ear to the already lawfully “ex ante” sentenced Holocaust of Srebrenica, then to arrive victoriously and not beg, but take, the fruit of its victory, or as the Americans would say – “claim your right”.

The purpose of this writing is to illuminate the living word, which word lives when it is embodied in a people. I write as a witness to these words as the words are not mine, so this writing is an attempt to make the words come alive again. This is a testament, indeed, to two victories. The first victory, which, on behalf of all of the humanity, was won by the American people – though those same people currently may not appear to give that much importance to that victory, and while that victory is generally being abandoned by the rest of the world – is in that the supreme governance in an orderly and civilized society, as per the words of the victorious people, WE, THE PEOPLE. The other is the victory of the Bosnian people in 1993 before the highest court in the world, The World Court in The Hague. These words, if we want to survive as a cultured society, ought to become the living words, embodied in the people so that we, as WE, THE PEOPLE, take what belongs to us, the fruit of the civilizational victory which the World Court in its Order gave us in 1993.

The question is, when we have scored a victory at the highest battleground, why do we now demean our victory and those innocents who were slaughtered by, way of begging before a third-rate show? Where the main actors were silent when the World Court declared us winners and issued an Order to the world to be carried out?

In the end, we create an abyss behind us which does not allow us to go back. After the articles about The Betrayal at the internet pages mentioned above, “we know or should have known” (as per the wording accepted in the Nuremberg Trial) about our victory at the proper, and the highest, battleground, we can not and ought not turn a blind eye and a deaf ear and pretend that it, The Order, does not exist.

Stephen Corkovic is Director and Vice president, Justice for Bosnia Task Force

Ottawa/Sibenik, October 26, 2009