Tuesday, October 29, 2013

I Hope You Can Bear This Post About the Balkans

I sure can!

"‘Babylution’ unites Bosnia’s ethnic rivals" by Aida Cerkez |  Associated Press, June 12, 2013

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s ‘‘baby revolution’’ began last week as a small protest of parents pushing strollers to Parliament to demand a new law be passed so their newborns could get national identity numbers, needed to acquire passports and other documents. Now, the demonstrations appear to be transcending ethnic boundaries and creating a sense of harmony rarely seen in a country where hatreds have endured for generations.

About 10,000 Bosnians from the country’s three main ethnicities, Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats, came to Sarajevo from across the country to join forces in what is now being called the ‘‘Babylution.’’ ‘‘We want changes’’ and ‘‘This is the beginning of your end,’’ protesters wrote on their banners.

Social networks such as Facebook have been instrumental in bringing together the disparate groups.

An old law lapsed in February, leaving all babies born in the country since then without personal documents. The government offered to issue temporary ID numbers until a new law is passed, but the protesters are demanding a final law be approved immediately.

The demonstrations began June 5 when angry young parents besieged Parliament. The following day, thousands of protesters formed a human ring around Parliament, trapping 1,500 lawmakers, civil servants, and others. In the predawn hours of Friday, special forces formed their own human cordon, freeing those inside the building.

Bosniak and Croat lawmakers are rejecting the demand of their Serb colleagues who want people from the Bosnian Serb part of the country to have different ID numbers than people from the rest of the country. They believe the Serb request is an attempt to further divide the country that is already split down ethnic lines into a Serb part — Republika Srpska — and another shared by Bosniaks and Croats since the country’s 1992-95 civil war.

Most of Bosnia’s problems are a result of the conflict between those two concepts — ethnic division and unity. 

I no longer buy sectarianism from my agenda-pushing war paper, sorry. Who benefits?

But Bosnia’s youth connected over Facebook and called for people not to fall for the politicians’ ‘‘lies’’ and ‘‘threats.’’

The initial protest last week was sparked by media reports about a 3-month-old baby that needs life-saving medical treatment abroad but couldn’t travel because the infant couldn’t get a passport until the government started issuing temporary numbers Wednesday.

Every day, the number of people expressing their overall dissatisfaction with the government has grown. Now, they want lawmakers to decrease their salaries by 30 percent, with the saved funds going into a fund for sick children. They want better education, jobs, and an end to the ethnic quarrel.

I'll bet there are some elite shitters reading this that can hardly bear it.

In other cities in Bosnia, more people gathered to support the demonstrations in Sarajevo, sending photos of their written messages of support or just little hearts to each other on Facebook.

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On the flip side they allegedly found another mass grave (I'm surprised when they don't blame Serbs). Of course, we all know what happens when you don't go along with the Jew World Order program, and what happens when you do. How times have changed.

RelatedBack to the Balkans

Maybe that will help give yo some perspective about what happened there.