Activist: What people of Sandzak mean to Bosnia is a million-dollar question

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What does Bosnia and Herzegovina mean to the people of Sandzak and what they mean to Bosnia is a million-dollar question, said human rights activist Aida Corovic, commenting on Bosnia's relationship with Serbia's southwestern region populated mostly by Bosniaks.

At one moment it was a political matter, according to Corovic, who said she was recommending the politicians to make this relationship cultural.

“I'm in a huge clash with politics in this twisted region so I wish to avoid politics and politicizing. The politics has become a part of our lives, the politicizing, the dirtiest and most awful, I'd use all the worst attributes,” said Corovic, speaking in N1's political talk show Pressing.

The greatest evil the could come upon the Bosniaks in Sandzak region were the divisions, said the activists, adding that every people has the leaders it deserves.

“The people of the Balkans show civilisational immaturity, we are still both pre-political societies and feudal communities. We have abnormal creations, except Slovenia, where we are acting as medieval peasants and kissing the hand of the one who treats us the worst,” stressed Corovic, who has been involved in activism for the past three decades.

She also spoke about the coronavirus pandemic and how the healthcare system of Serbia is dealing with it. According to her, such system hardly exists.

“Everything that Serbia is for the past ten years is a house of cards that is starting to fall apart, and no matter how much the prime minister tries to convince us everything is fine, you can simply see that Serbia has no healthcare system. Serbia actually has no state, it has individuals who try to manipulate,” Corovic stressed, adding that the virus might have had put in peril the people's lives but it also “unmasked one fake construction, a malign system.”

Corovic claims that the authorities “brutally misused the pandemic” for political purposes and that each and every politician, including President Aleksandar Vucic, are responsible for the increasing number of citizens infected with coronavirus that Serbia is seeing these days.

She conveyed a message to all medical workers, asking them to say ‘enough’ because they are the ones the most exposed.

“You didn't choose the bloodiest of all jobs that a human can do for someone to kick you. I am asking all medical workers to say ‘enough’ because they are the ones who are exposed. I am asking all medical workers to say ‘enough’ because they are the guardians of our lives,” said the activist.