Monday, September 29, 2014

Examining Karadžić's speech



Can i examine the famous speech of the former Republika Srpska Presednik Dr. Radovan Karadžić?

The transcript is as follows:

Things that you propose affect integrity of Yugoslavia, and the integrity of Yugoslavia can be altered only in the federal parliament, I'm not sure even of that, but it can be in the federal parliament and other federal institutions.
Many plans get mixed here. You referred to the constitution and the laws when it suits you; and when it doesn't suit you, you come out with political proclamations. Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina can prevent Croats and Muslims, if necessary, from getting out of Yugoslavia, but we will not prevent you. We will not do that because we are a sovereign people. Gentleman, I did not come here as a god of war, which is how somebody from the Croatian Democratic Party named me, but I want to repeat, for the hundredth time, that the Serbian Democratic Party does not create the will of the Serbian people. It interprets it. We would lie to you if we said that you can adopt this and that you can do something with this in Europe.
Gentlemen from the SDA, for the last three months we've been talking about other rights. We are talking freely and openly about a different way of organising Bosnia and Herzegovina, where some kind of a three-tier approach will enable Bosnia to stay united and Serbs, Muslims and Croats to stay in Yugoslavia for as long as they want to. This is a three-tier solution where the sovereignty of the peoples, as Mr. Bjelobrk correctly said, would be exercised not only at the level of the republic and the federal state but also in autonomous provinces.
If you don't want this, we could agree with you leaving Yugoslavia by means of a plebiscite, but we shall use the same mechanism to prevent you from taking us out of Yugoslavia. We do not mind if you submit an initiative to change the constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina. But you cannot do it this way. It has to be done through the constitutional commission, civil council of citizens which is where we would then vote. I'm trying to tell you, in the calmest way possible, the Serbian people know what they want. You want to tell the people in The Hague that this is a third or fourth republic that does not want to live in Yugoslavia, but you cannot do that because we want to live in Yugoslavia.
You can say that in your name. All the sovereign people in Bosnia can only speak for themselves. They cannot speak for other peoples. We have reached that conclusion in this parliament. Before the national and international public, we will prevent you from committing violence, constitutional violence against Serbs because the constitutional violence breeds all other kinds of violence. We will not be in control anymore.
This has been repeated here a hundred times. We will no longer be in control if we get into a situation where Croatia and Slovenia are, especially Croatia. The hell would be a thousand times worse in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There would be no way to stop it.
I ask you once again, I am not threatening, I am pleading that you take seriously the political will of the Serbian people represented here today, the Serbian Democratic Party, the Serbian Renewal Movement and some Serbs from the other parties represent. I plead with you to fully understand that what you are doing is not good. The road that you are choosing for Bosnia and Herzegovina is the same highway to hell and suffering that Slovenia and Croatia have already taken. Do not think that you will not take Bosnia and Herzegovina to hell and the Muslim people maybe into extinction, because if there is a war, the Muslim people will not be able to defend themselves.
Please, these are big statements, but serious situations demand big statements. How are you going to prevent people in Bosnia and Herzegovina from killing each other? How can the war in Croatia be prevented, especially in areas where Serbs and Croats live together and where their political wills have clashed without adhering to the legal framework which is the only way to resolve."
We have to prevent chaos from setting in. We can introduce order. We have it in our hands. But we cannot manage chaos.

This one quote makes me thin twice about what people outside of the Serbian people knew is this:

 "Do not think that you will not take Bosnia and Herzegovina to hell and the Muslim people maybe into extinction, because if there is a war, the Muslim people will not be able to defend themselves."

It only means that he is not trying to wipe out the whole Bošnjaci population but just made a point that those extreme  elements in Bosna that time will do it. Don't tell me i will invoke the evil Alija Izetbegović's persona but what he did by sacrificing Srebrenica before the advance of Gen. Ratko Mladić is what the misfortune of Bošnjaci cannot defend themselves and the words of Dr. Karadžić very true.

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