By Boba Borojevic | In his article “A Decade of Serbia’s Humiliation”, Srdja Trifkovic quite accurately describes the rule of Boris Tadic’s government. He writes : “This is pure anarchotyranny in action. The current government in Belgrade is quite powerless to protect its citizens from harassment in the NATO-occupied province of Kosovo. It is powerless to prevent young jihadists from pelting with stones tourist buses from non-Muslim areas in the majority-Muslim region of Novi Pazar—not in Kosovo, mind you, but in “Serbia Proper.”

It is powerless to stop rampant corruption by its own functionaries and politically associated cronies. It is powerless to halt open war-mongering by Islamic extremists such as Mufti Zukorlic in the Sandzak region in the south, or advocacy of ethnic separatism by Hungarian activists in the north.

Gay marchers hold poster seeking death to the Serbian state (smrt drzavi)

It is powerless to evict the Gypsy criminal underclass from usurping prime real estate in the nation’s capital. It is unable and unwilling to arrest and prosecute mafia bosses, privatization tycoons and foreign agents in its own ranks.At the same time, the regime of Serbia’s Euro-Integrators led by President Boris Tadic is brutally efficient in clamping down on those “extremists” who dare protest the promotion of sodomy and who dislike the imposition of psychopathological “norms” imposed by the regime’s foreign mentors.” [1]

There was lot of symbolism in the streets of Belgrade on Sunday, October 10th. The Serbian government joined efforts with renowned foreign enemies of Serbs to fight for human rights of Serbian gays and lesbians, while ignoring the mayhem of hundreds of thousands of Serbs whose life had been forever destroyed by the same foreign masters.

Some 6000 Serbs who ventured out in the streets that day to protest  not only against the gay “Pride parade” but also against their government’s domestic policy were branded hooligans. On the other hand, the government that used 5000 riot police, helicopters and armoured personnel carriers against these protesters only to enable some 400 gays and lesbians to “freely”  show their sexual preferences was praised as democratic and as a defender of human rights and EU/western values by major media outlets and foreign officials.
 
And who turned out to join the crowd of  Pride marchers?

None other than the head of the EU delegation to Serbia (French diplomat Vincent Degert), the Dutch ambassador to Serbia Laurent Stokvis, Frank van Dalen politician and gay activist from Amsterdam, the US Ambassador Mary Burce Warlick, the German deputy ambassador and diplomats from the Austrian, Spanish, Swedish and UK missions . [2]

All are diplomatic representatives of countries that not only bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999, but continue working diligently against Serbia’s vital interests, territorial integrity and security. Those who have impoverished and humiliated Serbia ironically insisted in their invitation to the parade that : ” Any discrimination on the grounds of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability and age is incompatible with the basic principles and values on which the EU is founded: respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, equal opportunities and tolerance”. [3]

What is wrong with this picture?
 
In the country with the most refugees and internal displaced persons in Europe, with its economy in shambles; in the country with severe poverty and double-digit unemployment, Tadic’s regime and its foreign mentors decided that gays and lesbians in Serbia are the only segment of Serbia’s population being discriminated against and worth fighting for. Even if it meant destroying the city of Belgrade. Waving rainbow flags, balloons and gesturing the middle fingers to street onlookers the Pride marchers had one powerful message to deliver. “Death to the Country (of Serbia)” was written on one of the few posters symbolically displayed behind Serbian Minister of Human and Minority Rights Svetozar Čiplić (DS party), Cedomir Jovanovic MP (LDP), Marko Djurisic MP (DS), Zarko Korac MP and  president of SDU, their foreign friends and diplomats, none of whom had a single kind word for Serbia, Serbian people or the Serbian church throughout their political careers.

The Parade was a well organized and well executed provocation by the Tadic’s regime and the western powers i.e. their diplomatic representatives who used gay activists to pursue their own agenda.

With every punch to the Serbian collective being by the West, Tadic’s regime hit double as hard.Despite warnings that the parade might face serious opposition by  a majority of the population, the Serbian government gave a green light to the organizers of the gay “Pride parade”. Opposition to the pride marchers was severe and so was the police reaction. Serbian riot police fought running battles that Sunday with thousands of anti gay – anti government supporters who tried to disrupt a gay pride march in downtown Belgrade.  Protesters hurled bricks, stones and glass bottles at riot police. Police responded by firing tear gas and deploying armoured vehicles to disperse the protesters. More than 140 people were hurt and more than 200 were arrested.

President Boris Tadic must have had a blast! Finally, he got a chance to settle the score with the little resistance left in Serbia, the patriotic groups who oppose his regime. He immediately accused them of instigating the riots , while Senior Justice Ministry official Slobodan Homen threatened them with a “fierce” state response .Instead of resigning Boris Tadic and his quisling government continues to impose on Serbs values and judgements that they clearly are not ready to agree upon or to accept. The more he insists, the stronger the opposition he will face by his own hungry, impoverished, jobless and humiliated population. And that, hopefully, will be the end of his regime.

[1] http://www.balkanstudies.org/blog/decade-serbias-humiliation

[2] ** http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2010/10/us-ambassador-joined-belgrades-gay-pre.html

[3] * http://www.nlembassy.rs/News/Message_in_Support_of_the_2010_Belgrade_Pride_Parade

[4] http://www.dverisrpske.com/tekst/1873168

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