RESPONSIBILITY
Serbia
in transition is once again overburdened. As if this
“difficult foreign word” – transition – is in itself not
sufficiently difficult.
In confronting this challenge which, as a rule, is a
matter of discomfort, Serbia is carrying her anxiety
resulting from uncertainty, she walks wobbly, her steps
lacking determination. And the faults made are too many,
and not at all childish.
Responsibility for the past, for what was done, for what
was not done, for the unpunished things, for the lack of
lustration, for what was not dealt with, emerges thus as
irresponsibility for the present.
The personality of this issue, the laureate of the first
annual reward of the OSCE mission in Serbia speaks in
the interview of the issue on sloppiness, giving thus
answers to the theme of irresponsibility.
The Hague in the form of Mladic and the others, The
Hague in the form of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s charges,
Kosovo – all these lie before us because all these are
what we have left behind us and all these have now
simply caught up with us.
In Norway there is a man in detention who is accused of
a loathsome war crime on the farm Ovcara, and in Sweden
a Swede was convicted for war crimes in the territory of
the former Yugoslavia.
Every day Serbia wakes up with news on trials for
severest crimes, if these crimes make it possible for
her to fall asleep in the first place.
But Serbia is sleeping, tired from responsibility. Like
when you know that there is a hard day ahead, and you
simply do not want to get up.
Jasna Šarčević - Janković
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