few and brief reflections on the arrest of Jovan Divjak Divjak
The incident of the arrest - which took place Thursday, March 3 at Vienna airport on an international arrest warrant issued by judicial authorities in Belgrade to discuss a fact of war beginning in 1992 - 's former general Jovan Divjak, known to history as the Serbian commander who defended Sarajevo siege of the Bosnian Serb ultra-nationalist, has brought to light, Once again, the endless Balkan war, a war poorly managed by the international community tremendously and continuously exploited by the nationalist parties in power in Bosnia and Herzegovina and openly supported by a European increasingly inattentive to the rights of peoples, and increasingly participate in those businessmen.
Our publishing house has published the 2007 memoirs of Jovan Divjak, " Sarajevo, mon amour ", awarded by an excellent critical acclaim and audiences. Even at that time, when we organized an extensive tour of presentations, and finished off from Trieste to Rome, we were able to experiment with hand the contrast of feelings surrounding the man Divjak, hailed as a hero by Bosnian and treated as a traitor by the nationalist Serbian and Bosnian Serb radical and equity. On that occasion, suddenly vanished the invitation of prestigious guest we had offered months before his seat - despite the Digos guaranteed to those who write public order and security of the former military personnel become better known philanthropist and founder of Bosnian organization active in helping and supporting orphans and needy children - it was decided to move with some speed Divjak from Trieste to Teglio Veneto, where - host of a local association courageous unlike those guests just ... ... hospitable - the man was able to recover and return to the bitterness of that experience to focus on the long series of presentations that awaited him. And it went beautifully.
We've never publicly recounted the episode, but this seems the right time to do so. Today
, who left the specter of a possible extradition from Austria to Serbia Divjak - at least according to statements made yesterday by Minister of Foreign Affairs Vienna, Michael Spindelegger, who said that "according to our experts in international law, extradition Divjak of Serbia is the unthinkable, "and a statement of Marjana Grandits (Commissione diritti umani del ministero dell’Interno austriaco) giunta attraverso la Fondazione Alexander Langer, secondo cui Divjak è “in gran forma. Legge e scrive molto. È difeso da uno dei migliori avvocati in materia, convinto di riuscire a evitare l’estradizione ma dovrà rimanere in Austria” fino alla conclusione della lunga procedura giudiziaria – per meglio inquadrare l’uomo e non rischiare di restare vittime di strani “profili” letti qua e là nel Web, vale forse la pena citare qualche riga del prologo al libro “Sarajevo, mon amour”, scritta dalla giornalista francese Florence La Bruyère: “Jovan Divjak incarna l’ideale europeista, così brutalmente trampled in the former Yugoslavia. Rejecting a division of men and lands according to ethnic or racial criteria, is that he wanted to defend peace, coexistence between peoples, even more of their 'peaceful coexistence'. Is in the name of a genuine conception of the dignity and human rights that he has resisted the temptations of nationalism, and he risked his life to the idea of \u200b\u200ba Europe without borders, following the collapse of the Berlin Wall . Even today, Divjak, who left the army and did not want to aspire to other positions or to obtain the minimum privilege for his past, wants to serve the brotherhood and reconciliation, and This testifies to his efforts on behalf of young people. Whoever clings furiously to a flag and ideology are afraid to see his identity disappear as if afraid of not being a virgin, he noticed one day the director Volker Schlöndorff. 'Well, the identity can never be lost - he added - as it is earned a little daily contact with others, es'arricchisce of history, culture and language of each'. This enthusiastic belief is that the same soul Jovan Divjak. " And that our publishing house - having met the man and in charge actively, every day, peace and human rights in the Balkans, sincerely acknowledges, no matter what happened in Sarajevo, Dobrovoljacka ulica, May 3, 1992, when a column of Yugoslav Army (JNA) and citizens' groups and members of the fledgling Bosnian army clashed, once as demonstrating that in Bosnia for months fought a bloody and tragic war. A war is not ethnic or religious, but economic and territorial conquest, which is scheduled to table as the hatred that was scientifically instilled in people, and still too many runs in his veins. And the question that everyone should be asking today is: why no one is working to pull out an antidote, although there would be, and even at your fingertips?
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