BosNet Article:I Feel Ashamed of My People-Bora Cosic
Steve Albert
B o s N e t -May 6, 1999
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L'Expresso
May 5,1999
I FEEL ASHAMED OF MY PEOPLE
by Bora Cosic (Serbian writer)
L'Espresso
According to the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, the people of Belgrade
have regressed to the level of children, or rather of naughty children.
Personally I have a better opinion of children. They are proud, and have a
special kind of nobility. Children, for example, arevery selective, they
don't let just anyone approach and seduce them.
The people who are now taking part in the demonstrations in the squares and
on the bridges of Belgrade do not have thischild-like nobility, and their
anger at the bombs has no relation with the naughtiness of children. There
is nothing easier than burning another country's flag or destroying the
effigy of a foreign leader. This is the sort of ethnological reaction that
Lévi-Strauss would have compared to the behaviour of natives towards the
spirit of an enemy tribe or of an evil divinity whothreatens them.
For a time my people loved freedom and showed that they were mature. But
even in their maturity they were voluble. The Serbian people are proud of
everything, even of the very pride they nurture in the depth of their
souls. Everyone should be proud of his own soul. But how can we not offend
this great gift if we, the Serbs, act in a soulless, cruel way towards a
whole people, the Albanians in Kosovo? My fellow countrymen do not want to
hear about this population which is being destroyed.They do not realise
that in this way they are destroying their own dignity. This is not a case
of child-like behaviour. The people
of Serbia, now used as a shield by their dictator, should worry first of
all about the weak, desperate members of an entire population in the south
of Yugoslavia which has been deported from its own land. They should be
ashamed of those crowded,miserable refugee camps which are now the home, or
rather the children's room of the Albanian people of Kosovo. People who can
only hope in an imaginary father in heaven.
The people supporting Milosevic in Belgrade are blind. They do not realise
that that are now faced with a war set into motion from their own city,
eight years ago. And if they are now protecting strategic army
installations with their own bodies, they forgetthat this is the same army
which has systematically destroyed and murdered for many years in their own
country. This army has committed acts of aggression, like the Germany army
at the time of Hitler in Europe. In the name of the Yugoslavian flag, one
piece of the country after another has been conquered and then destroyed.
Later, like at Stalingrad, the aggressors themselves have withdrawn from
one defeat to another (in Croatia and Bosnia) to theever-receding borders
of Yugoslavia. Now the war has knocked at the door of my home city, just as
it once broke out in Berlin.
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