For Sarajevo and the Bosnians and for everyone who attended the tragedy, Jovan Divjak is a legendary figure. It can be said of him as a war hero, if that term does not deprive the very warmth and affection of his people. Its people are not defined by nationality, but for humanity, that at a happy time in Sarajevo was the warm nest.
And he defines this way: Bosnian, and human. Neither the Serbian or Croatian or Muslim, in that melting pot upside down in Bosnia has been degraded by the chauvinistic fury. Divjak is of Serbian origin and nationality, and when Yugoslavia broke up was a senior army officer. He decided to stay in Sarajevo, was considered a deserter by serbisti, and the worst of traitors, when he decided to distribute weapons to the Bosnian resistance.
But we must not think of him as a turncoat and a renegade of his fathers and mothers. One night, locked in a friendly house, after having eaten and drunk as could be with the curfew and the winter in a city under siege, we sang all the songs, and he finally sang beautiful songs popular in Serbia, those who had no guilt in the course of infamy.
His personal popularity gave him a value strong enough to shade some of the Bosnian Muslim leaders, in turn, nationalists, and its commitment that it were so exercised. So, after being the deputy commander of military operations of defense, was virtually marginalized, and became the general that he met everywhere in the city under siege, and was lavish for its citizens.
Already during the war, and after its end in 1995 - if you can call it war, and if you can put it over - he worked especially with the voluntary association called Obrazovanje Degrees BIH (Bosnia and Herzegovina Education building) to promote studies of war orphans and children in need, without regard to their origins "ethnic" (and remember that among the Bosnian Muslims and Croats and Serbs, there is no difference "ethnic" but not rare sensational case of invention racist).
Thanks to his association have been able to study, from primary school to university, many hundreds of children, 120 among them Roma Bosnians. In Vienna on Thursday to call did come in Italy, where is constant, at a conference in Bologna. He knew of the arrest warrant issued against him by the Serbian government, but did not intend to let that limit his freedom of provocation.
The news of his arrest was a slap in the face to the people of Sarajevo and Bosnia, and the many friends that Divjak was done in the world. The Serbian government, which accuses him of war crimes is the one who is still waiting to flush out the Executioner of Srebrenica, Mladic. We must hope that Austria will soon erase a bad spot, and he does not want to go to a decision to extradite Divjak as contemptible in Belgrade.
He is a wonderful man, and is not afraid of anything. But the offense that would be the truth, the right and straight would be enormous. 
And he defines this way: Bosnian, and human. Neither the Serbian or Croatian or Muslim, in that melting pot upside down in Bosnia has been degraded by the chauvinistic fury. Divjak is of Serbian origin and nationality, and when Yugoslavia broke up was a senior army officer. He decided to stay in Sarajevo, was considered a deserter by serbisti, and the worst of traitors, when he decided to distribute weapons to the Bosnian resistance.
But we must not think of him as a turncoat and a renegade of his fathers and mothers. One night, locked in a friendly house, after having eaten and drunk as could be with the curfew and the winter in a city under siege, we sang all the songs, and he finally sang beautiful songs popular in Serbia, those who had no guilt in the course of infamy.
His personal popularity gave him a value strong enough to shade some of the Bosnian Muslim leaders, in turn, nationalists, and its commitment that it were so exercised. So, after being the deputy commander of military operations of defense, was virtually marginalized, and became the general that he met everywhere in the city under siege, and was lavish for its citizens.
Already during the war, and after its end in 1995 - if you can call it war, and if you can put it over - he worked especially with the voluntary association called Obrazovanje Degrees BIH (Bosnia and Herzegovina Education building) to promote studies of war orphans and children in need, without regard to their origins "ethnic" (and remember that among the Bosnian Muslims and Croats and Serbs, there is no difference "ethnic" but not rare sensational case of invention racist).
Thanks to his association have been able to study, from primary school to university, many hundreds of children, 120 among them Roma Bosnians. In Vienna on Thursday to call did come in Italy, where is constant, at a conference in Bologna. He knew of the arrest warrant issued against him by the Serbian government, but did not intend to let that limit his freedom of provocation.
The news of his arrest was a slap in the face to the people of Sarajevo and Bosnia, and the many friends that Divjak was done in the world. The Serbian government, which accuses him of war crimes is the one who is still waiting to flush out the Executioner of Srebrenica, Mladic. We must hope that Austria will soon erase a bad spot, and he does not want to go to a decision to extradite Divjak as contemptible in Belgrade.
He is a wonderful man, and is not afraid of anything. But the offense that would be the truth, the right and straight would be enormous.
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