06.11.2019.
Books are not banned in Serbia
With regards to the statement of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, Ministry of Defense regrets that the esteemed Commissioner failed to react when Naser Orić, a proven killer of Serbs was acquitted, just as she was not compelled to condemn and seek accountability for the statement of Emir Suljagić, Director of the Potočari Memorial Center in Srebrenica, who stated that “Jasenovac is a Chetnik fabrication” and that “Honorable Bosniaks from the Handžar Division missed the opportunity to solve the problem of Chetniks, that is why it was left as amanet (testament) to us”."
We deeply regret that Ms Mijatović did not feel the urge to come to Bratunac and lay a wreath on the graves of the slaughtered Serbian children, or at least demand that someone be held responsible for their deaths. It is a pity that Dunja Mijatović does not demand to have whoever tried to kill Aleksandar Vučić in Srebrenica or who lied that in Kosovo, the Siptars were poisoned by mono-national poison from Serbia revealed.
Instead of searching for the truth, Dunja Mijatović is attacking the Ministry of Defense because a book that was not published by the Ministry of Defense was discussed at the Central Military Club. Any attempt at a different view of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a great crime if it comes from the Serbs.
The Ministry of Defense will not agree to this and has therefore allowed the author of the book and the people involved in the investigation of the entire case to express their views.
Many times, Serbs have been and still are victims of double standards; they have often been tried and are being tried for crimes committed by others. Serbia will not ban books – that is a tradition pertinent to some other nations.
We would like to suggest to the esteemed Commissioner to read the book she is talking about prior to making her undeniable and infallible judgment.
