UNITE TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

UNITE TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Let us be a million— plus you! — Europeans, consistent and determined to make their voices heard by signing this appeal for a Europe of true solidarity with her Bosnian fellow citizens.

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THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH OF GENOCIDE CANADA INVATES ALL FRIENDS OF BIH TO SIGN THE PETITION

 

28 JUNE 2014. APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF EUROPE FOR ADMISSION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

 

Here, 20 years ago, the bombs rained from the skies.

Here, 20 years ago, snipers fired on people walking by.

Here, 20 years ago, ethnic cleansing unlike anything seen since World War II ravaged all of Bosnia.

And here, 20 years ago, an army of free citizens, faithful to the noblest anti-fascist traditions of Europe, resisted barbarism and ultimately defeated.

 

During that time, Europe idly stood by.

Deaf to the appeals of her brothers in Sarajevo, Mostar, and Srebrenica, almost to the end Europe refused to employ her might.

Turning her back on her own past struggles for democracy and freedom, Europe acquiesced, with cynicism equaled only by her Munich-like complacency, to the slaughter of innocents.

And when she finally did intervene it was to impose, through the Dayton Accords, an iniquitous agreement that bought peace at the cost of partition and put in place an institutional mechanism that paralyzes and impoverishes the country, while preventing the reconciliation of hearts and minds from Sarajevo to Banja Luka to Mostar.

 

THIS SITUATION CANNOT CONTINUE

 

This political, moral, and historic mistake must be remedied.

Our debt to Bosnia, a country that paid for nothing other than its unwavering fidelity to the values of democracy, cosmopolitanism, and multicultural tolerance — the values of Europe itself — must be settled.

And there is but one way for Europe to do that: to recognize that by its suffering no less than by its history, by its long tradition of openness to others no less than by its heroic resistance to the savage nationalism that almost destroyed it, this little country is fully, indisputably, and irreversibly part of the great family of friends of democracy and law that is the European family.

 

It is for that reason that friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby launch, here in Sarajevo, on this centenary of the unleashing of a cataclysm which tore Europe apart and sank it into darkness, an appeal to all Europeans of good will to support the prompt admission of the country of Ivo Andric to full membership in the European Union.

Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina reject the argument of those who, mistaking effect for cause, cite this or that constitutional provision imposed by the Dayton Accords as an excuse to defer the commencement of negotiations.

They protest the absurd and Kafkaesque logic that has for so many years kept this country, where the heart of Europe beats stronger than anywhere else, away from the European political space.

 

And they therefore launch this petition which — by proposing in part that the infamous “preconditions” invoked by Brussels should be made part of the admission process rather than blocking it and that those preconditions should not precede the process but rather become its first order of business —advocates for the immediate and unconditional opening of negotiations.

 

How many deaths had to occur before France and Germany reconciled?

How many more years will Bosnia and Herzegovina have to wait because Europe refuses to face her guilty conscience?

 

LET US PUT THAT GUILTY CONSCIENCE BEHIND US

 

Let us pay our debt to Bosnia and Herzegovina by finally opening to it the doors of Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

MILION POTPISA ZA ULAZAZ BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE U EVROPSKOJ UNIJU

 

Neka nas bude milion— plus Vi! — million dosljednih Evropljana uvjerenih u ispravnost te odluke i opredjeljenih da se njihov glas čuje potpisivanjem ovog Apela za Evropu istinski solidarnu sa svojim sugraÄ‘anima iz Bosne i Hercegovine.

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INSTITUT ZA ISTRAŽIVANJE GENOCIDA KANADA POZIVA SVE PRIJATELJE BIH DA POTPIŠU PETICIJU

 

28. JUNA 2014. GODINE, APEL NA EVROPSKU SAVJEST ZA ULAZAK BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE U EVROPSKU UNIJU

 

Ovdje su prije dvadeset godina granate padale kao kiša.

Ovdje su prije dvadeset godina snajperisti pucali na prolaznike.

Ovdje je prije dvadeset godina etničko čišÄ‡enje, bez presedana od Drugog svjetskog rata, opustošilo cijelu zemlju.

Ovdje su prije dvadeset godina slobodni graÄ‘ani pružili otpor barbarstvu i porazili ga, ostavši vjerni antifašističkoj tradiciji Evrope.

Evropa je sve to vrijeme stajala skrštenih ruku

 

Oglušila se na pozive svojih sugraÄ‘ana iz Bosne i Hercegovine i ostala bez pravog odgovora.

Sa cinizmom ravnim samo svojoj neo-minhenskoj popustljivosti okrenula je leÄ‘a vlastitoj tradiciji borbe za slobodu i demokratiju i prešutno odobrila pokolj nedužnih.

I kada je konačno intervenisala učinila je to kako bi u Daytonu bio nametnut nepravedan sporazum kojim je uspostavljen mir po cijenu podjele zemlje i stvaranja institucionalnog okvira koji je paralizira, osiromašuje i spriječava pomirenje u dušama njenih ljudi

OVA SITUACIJA JE NEODRŽIVA

 

Ova politička, moralna i historijska greška mora se ispraviti.

Evropa se mora odužiti Bosni i Hercegovini, zemlji koja je skupo platila svoju nepokolebljivu vjernost vrijednostima demokratije, kozmopolitizma i multikulturalnosti, tim temeljnim vrijednostima same Evrope.

Samo je jedan način da Evropa to učini: da prizna da Bosna i Hercegovina u potpunosti, neupitno i nepovratno pripada evropskoj zajednici – toj velikoj obitelji prijatelja demokratije i prava – zbog patnje kroz koju je ova mala zemlja prošla, zbog svoje historije, zbog svoje vjekovne tradicije tolerancije i otvorenosti, zbog svog herojskog otpora divljem nacionalizmu koji ju je umalo uništio.

 

To je razlog zbog kojeg prijatelji Bosne i Hercegovine odavde, iz Sarajeva, na dan obilježavanja stogodišnjice početka kataklizme u koju je Evropa potonula i bila razdirana bez milosti, upućuju apel svim Evropljanima dobre volje da zemlja Ive Andrića bude, u skoroj budućnosti, primljena u Evropsku uniju kao punopravna članica.

Prijatelji Bosne i Hercegovine odbacuju argumente onih koji navode ovu ili onu ustavnu odredbu nametnutu u Daytonskom sporazumu kao izgovor za odgaÄ‘anje početka pregovora izmeÄ‘u Evropske unije i Bosne i Hercegovine o prijemu u punopravno članstvo. Prijatelji Bosne i Hercegovine dižu svoj glas protiv apsurdne, kafkijanske logike koja ovu zemlju – u kojoj srce Evrope kuca jače nego bilo gdje drugdje – već godinama drži izvan evropskog političkog prostora.

 

Prijatelji Bosne i Hercegovine ovom peticijom zahtjevaju trenutno i bezuvjetno otpočinjanje pregovora izmeÄ‘u Evropske unije i Bosne i Hercegovine o prijemu u punopravno članstvo, i to tako što bi Evropska unija Bosni i Hercegovini odmah odobrila status kandidata za članstvo, a svi famozni “preduvjeti” čije ispunjenje Evropska unija traži da bi odobrila kandidatski status postali bi predmet pristupnih pregovora.

 

Koliko poginulih je bilo potrebno da se Francuska i Njemačka pomire?

Koliko će godina Bosna i Hercegovina još morati da čeka jer Evropa odbija da se suoči sa svojom nečistom savješÄ‡u?

 

UKLONIMO TU TAMNU MRLJU SA SAVJESTI EVROPE

 

Izmirimo svoj dug prema Bosni i Hercegovini. Prestanimo samo pričati da su vrata Evrope otvorena za Bosnu i Hercegovinu. Pustimo Bosnu i Hercegovinu da konačno uđe na ta otvorena vrata Evrope.