ANĐELKOVIĆ: SULJAGIĆ'S LETTER TO U.S. ENVOY - VOICE OF DESPERATION

BELGRADE, MARCH 31 /SRNA/ – The letter sent by the director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre Emir Suljagić to the US President's Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Yehuda Kaploun is the voice of a desperate man and undermines Jasenovac and the Holocaust, political analyst Dragomir Anđelković told SRNA.

Commenting on Suljagić's attempt to persuade Kaploun not to appear with SNSD leader Milorad Dodik, who invited him to Donja Gradina to mark the 81st anniversary of the Jasenovac camp prisoners' breakout, Anđelković says he hopes the American side will immediately reject it as a transparent and brazen gesture by a lobbyist fighting for geopolitical interests rather than for justice and truth. "Everyone has the right to present their views, everyone has the right to use what works in their favour, but it is another matter how that will be received," Anđelković said. He stressed that Suljagić's move is not only directed against Serbs, because it directly undermines the terrible crime symbolized by Jasenovac, but is also directed against the Holocaust and the Jewish community. "If something that is a false genocide and a propaganda fabrication about Srebrenica is linked to a real genocide, namely the Holocaust, then the impression is created that everything is a fraud and everything is, in a way, trivialized," Anđelković said. What Suljagić is doing undermines not only the current political position of Republika Srpska but also the narrative about the Holocaust and the mass crimes committed by the Ustasha against Serbs, Jews, and others who were targeted by their knives for slaughtering, not only him acting against Rrepublika Srpska. Anđelković said it should not be surprising that such indirect trivialization of crimes from World War II comes from representatives of a people who today try to present themselves as anti-fascists, but who during World War II served in SS divisions such as Handschar or Kama, and participated in the Holocaust. "When we put all this together, it is clear that this is the crudest form of historically incorrect revisionism and the abuse of terrible tragedies in the service of the geopolitical interests of hegemonistic circles in Sarajevo," Anđelković assessed. He adds that Bosniak political representatives are closely connected with Islamist circles in the world and are now in great panic as the United States turns away from such policies. "They realize that they themselves could come under scrutiny because of their ties with Islamists, often with those who are extreme and antisemitic. Their propaganda campaign is only the voice of desperation, now they are trying to turn it around with cheap propaganda, but neither the present nor the past works in their favour," Anđelković said.