Bosnian Elections: Bosniak Voters Humiliated Bosniak Candiidates

National Congress of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (NCR B&H) Online Newsletter Internatiional of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovinna, 698 November 2, 2010 CONTENT 1. Bosnian Elections: Voters Humiliated the Bosniak Perpetrators of the Project of Greater Serbia in B&H 1.1 Key Traitors are Known and Were Humiliated by the Voters 1.2 We Overcame our Naivety, but Still Must Overcome Dayton 1.3 Voters Protesting Institutional Discrimination 1.4 Non-Investigation of Election Fraud 2. Documented Election Fraud in Favor of Izetbegovic 3. At Least 83,500 Voters Boycotted all of the Candidates? 4. Roma activist sues Bosnia again after country did not let him run for president ──────────── This issue is distributed to 35,418 Bosnian and 2,758 international readers. ──────────── 1. Bosnian Elections: Voters Humiliated the Bosniak Perpetrators of the Project of Greater Serbia in B&H By Muhamed Borogovac, PhD, ASA, MAAA There are many messages that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina sent in the elections. Let us mention the most important. 1.1 Key Traitors are Known and Were Humiliated by the Voters The fact that significantly more Bosniak voters (about 320.000) voted for Zeljko Komsic than for the current "Bosniak" leaders in government put together (Izetbegovic and Silajdzic -- 260.000), tells us that the people are trying to escape from the deadly embrace of the Greater Serbia project, and its perpetrators within Bosnia -- the false Muslim and false Bosniak leaders of the SDA and SBiH parties and of the Bosnian Islamic Community. This is the first time that the vast majority of Bosniaks saw through their tricks and refused them obedience, and are therefore looking for solutions beyond them. That is why they have voted for someone who is neither Muslim nor Bosniak, Zeljko Komsic, rather than for Izetbegovic, Silajdzic, Tihic and other performers Greater Serbia project in Bosnia. Note that the traitors know how much they are despised by the people. For example, the president of the SDA, Sulejman Tihic, did not dare put his name on any election list. This is a huge step forward for us Bosniaks, as we have shown that we are now aware that these men are traitors. However, while such awareness is necessary to free ourselves from the deadly embrace of the heirs of the Yugoslav secret service UDBA in Bosnia-Herzegovina, it is not sufficient, because the Dayton system keeps them in power. This point is addressed in the following section. 1.2 We Overcame our Naivety, but Still Must Overcome Dayton This election showed how the Dayton system enables thugs in BiH to remain in control. During the campaign, many candidates from various parties have written to us and complained that the main media outlets have blocked them out. The major parties have over time installed their own people in all the media, including known former agents of UDBA, and they now serve as the gatekeepers of democracy to protect the Greater Serbia project in Bosnia. In particular, TV, radio and printed media, which are still the only available means of information for the majority of Bosnians, have eliminated from the election campaign all parties except privileged four: SDA, SDP, SBiH, SBB. In this way they have accomplished two things (1) they have restricted all discussions in the campaign only to a set of ideas based on the premise that the ethnic division of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not in question and the results of the aggression and genocide, embodied in the "Federation" and the "Republic of Serbs" entities are a permanent reality and (2) they have created an impression that every vote that does not go to one of these, "major" parties is a wasted vote. And so most Bosniaks who did not want to vote for the Bosniak media favorites Izetbegovic, Silajdzic and Radoncic voted for Komsic, instead of candidates from the other Bosniak parties whose ideas were blocked by the controlled Bosniak media. But due to Dayton's apartheid rules, even though the Bosniaks in this election rejected Mr. Izetbegovic soundly by giving him fewer than half the votes that they gave to Zeljko Komsic, who is neither Muslim nor Bosniak, Izetbegovic will enter the Presidency as the one who speaks in the name of Bosniaks. Clearly, the Dayton rules are a perversion of democracy, enforcing an ethnic apartheid even when the people clearly say they want something else. Of course, what can we expect from a constitution created to appease perpetrators of aggression and genocide? So Mr. Komsic owes his own good result to the fact that the Bosniak people have awakened to the lies of "their own" politicians. Unfortunately, we expect that he will disappoint them as well. For all his bombastic talk about saving Bosnia, we recall that he had joined Silajdzic, Tihic, Lagumdjija, Izetbegovic and Dodik in pressuring people from Srebrenica to withdraw their decision to secede from the Republika Serpska as a "Srebrenica district". This occurred after the conviction at the International Court of Justice of the RS and its police and military for genocide in Srebrenica. Likewise, he joined Radmanovic and Silajdzic on all important and catastrophic decisions brought by the Presidency in the last term. Aside from a well publicized rant against Serbia's policy toward Bosnia, Komsic has not done anything to protect Bosnia, when he was in position to do so. In short, Komsic has copied his party boss Mr. Lagumdzija, who chose him as the candidate. Even with new faces, the same old parties always give us more of the same. 1.3 Voters Protesting Institutional Discrimination Election officials have also reported a very large number of invalid ballots in both entities, especially in elections for the Presidency of Bosnina-Herzegovina. (See article 3 below.) Most of those were unmarked. A likely explanation is that the voters protested discrimination in the election law, which is most explicit for that highest office: it is illegal for Bosnians and Croats in the RS and for Serbs in the Federation to run for the Presidency. That makes them second-class citizens. Other minorities cannot run for that office in either entity -- they are second class citizens everywhere. Both facts prove the fascist character of the Dayton constitution, and are examples of methods it employs to preserve the results of ethnic cleansing, by preventing the return of people to the entities where they would be a minority. The European Court has already ruled that the election rules constitute unlawful discrimination against two minorities, the Jews and the Roma. We hail that decision, but point out that it does not address the similar discrimination against Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs living in the "wrong" entities. This is not the court's fault, simply the suit did not have that scope, as it was brought by Roma and Jewish leaders on behalf of those particular minorities. It is revealing that neither "Bosniaks" from SDA, SDP and SBiH, nor "Croats" from HDZ, nor the Serbs of the Federation ever sued in a similar manner. Evidently all three groups of politicians are more concerned with preserving the RS as an ethnically pure entity, than protecting the rights of the Bosniaks and Croats in the RS and Serbs in the Federation. It is also worth noting that the government proceeded with the discriminatory elections despite the ruling of the European court. 1.4 Non-Investigation of Election Fraud Immediately after the elections, there have been reports of election fraud in many parts of Bosnia. One witness account of ballot stuffing by officials affiliated with the SDA party of Mr. Izetbegovic can be seen in part 2. It seems that the Central Election Commission (CIK) itself is engaging in a cover up of election fraud. For example, the Social-Democratic Union (SDU) party has pointed out that CIK released official final election results, before the legally mandated period for submitting electoral complaints had run out. So CIK, charged with enforcing election rules, does not even follow them itself. The Bosnian Party (BOSS) asked CIK to investigate reports that a very large number of ballots declared invalid in some races were marked for BOSS candidates. The President of CIK, Mrs. Irena Hadziabdic, refused to investigate, or to allow the invalidated ballots to be inspected, citing lack of evidence. But the ballots are the evidence! ──────────── 2. Documented Election Fraud in Favor of Izetbegovic Translated from: Dnevni Avaz October 9, 2010. Agan Uzunovic from Sarajevo is one of many voters who have witnessed tremendous election fraud in favor of the ruling parties in BiH. Speaking to "Dnevni avaz", Mr. Uzunovic described what he saw on October 3 at a polling place in the Elementary School "Avdo Smajlovic" in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Buca Potok, as well as what he learned later from friends who were election observers at that polling place. Envelope Ready Mr. Uzunovic summarized for us the whole event with the following sad conclusion: "Democracy in Bosnia has been stolen!" - Electoral fraud was committed at the polling station in Buca Potok. During the counting of votes, a certain number of ballots for the Croatian and Bosniak member of BiH Presidency was "lost". When the commission members noted the lack of ballots, they duly notified the president of the electoral committee Mediha B., who is also known to be a member of the SDA party. Ms. Mediha, to make up the lost ballots, took out an envelope with ballots for the presidency already completed, and simply threw them in among the rest - Mr. Uzunovic told us. In his words, the papers which the lady had put all had inscribed crosses next to the name Bakir Izetbegovic. Mr. Uzunovic claims that members of the election commission and the observers who witnessed the event did not dare report it to the case coordinator out of fear. COMMENT: There were numerous other reports of cheating, but interestingly always in favor of SDA. We chose this testimony because it is entirely credible, and would be sufficient to initiate an investigation in any country in the world. Sadly, Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the deadly embrace of Greater Serbia, held there most successfully by domestic operatives, mostly members of the SDA, but also holding key posts within the other large "Bosniak" parties. M. B. ──────────── 3. At Least 83,500 Voters Boycotted all of the Candidates? Translated from: Fena October 5, 2010 As a press-conference in Sarajevo, the president of Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Ms. Irena Hadziabdic, reported that in the selection of Croatian and Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency, the total of 6.88% of ballots were invalid, of which 3.92% (39,000) were unmarked, and the remainder of invalid ballots was 2.96%. In the contest for the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9.44% of ballots were invalid. 7.04% (44 500) were unmarked while the remaining invalid votes totaled 2.40 percent. "This makes us believe that here we are seeing a kind of voter boycott, associated with certain discriminatory provisions in the election law," said Ms. Hadziabdic, adding that the CEC will carry out checks of this data. ──────────── 4. Roma activist sues Bosnia again after country did not let him run for president Published Monday November 1st, 2010 AIDA CERKEZ, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Roma activist said Monday he has sued Bosnia at the European Court of Human Rights because the country never implemented that court's previous ruling: to allow him to run for president although he is of Roma ethnicity. The court in Strasbourg, France, ruled in December that Bosnia's constitution must be changed because it discriminates against minorities by not allowing them to run for parliament or president. Dervo Sejdic, along with Bosnian Jew activist Jakob Finci, sued their country last year for human rights violations and won the case. Sejdic said Bosnian leaders never implemented the court's order and is suing again, demanding compensation. The constitution says a president has to be a member of one of the three dominant ethnic groups in the country: a Muslim Bosniak, a Croat or a Serb. Internationally mediated talks to change the constitution and give the country a chance to join the European Union were delayed for after the October elections when it became clear that Bosnia's leaders were not able to agree on how to change it and how to implement the court's ruling. According to the Peace Agreement and the Constitution from 1995, Bosnia is divided into two ministates — the Bosnian Serb republic and a federation of Bosniaks and Croats. The two are linked by weak central institutions whose authority sometimes overlaps with the influence of the ministates. The EU has demanded that the constitution be changed so it gives more power to the central government. It wasn't immediately clear when the new parliament will be inaugurated and when it would get started on changing the constitution because of internal divisions between Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks that have engulfed the country for nearly two decades. The Serbs vehemently oppose the plan to amend the constitution because they fear a change of the current political setup would dilute the autonomy of their ministate. Bosniaks, on the other hand, agree with the EU request. Croats also agree with the concept, but say if the country remains divided, then they want their own ministate too, instead of sharing one with the Bosniaks. "Of course, the court won't discuss the discrimination issue again, so this time I'm requesting compensation, implementation of the ruling and ... I want them to put pressure on the Bosnian authorities to implement it," Sejdic told The Associated Press. Finci and Sejdic filed a complaint in June 2009 and added to the lawsuit a letter Finci received from the Bosnian election commission saying he is ineligible to run for the presidency or parliament because he is Jewish. Before this year's elections on Oct. 3, Sejdic wrote to Bosnia's election commission saying the constitution had still not been changed despite the court's ruling and the discriminatory rule has not been removed. "I asked them if I as a Roma can run for the presidency ... and they replied to me that only" a Muslim Bosniak, a Croat or a Serb "can run for that post," Sejdic said. "I decided to turn to the European Court of Human Rights again after the elections," he said. http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1287989