“Upotreba” Blajburga u Sarajevu
The “usage” of Bleiburg in Sarajevo

Summary/Abstract: This article was published on the 13th of May 2020 on the web portal bosanskamisao.ba, three days before the Mass that was organized in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sarajevo (May 16th of 2020) for the victims at Bleiburg. As expected, the Mass stirred up the public opinion, deepened the divisions, misunderstandings and hatred in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In expressing his opinion on this topic, the author started from the well-known principle that no one should interfere in the activity of the church (mosque); no one should interfere in their work, the same way the church (mosque) should not interfere in secular affairs. The precise reason why this misunderstanding arose is the fact that someone harshly interfered in the work of the other. The author has no ambition to unravel how much of a certain politic was used as a “secular thing” in function of church matters. But one thing can be said for sure: Sarajevo is the last place on Earth where the Catholic Church should have held a Mass for Bleiburg. This is Bosnia and Herzegovina. The reminiscences of Bleiburg are something completely different here; Bleiburg and the Bosniaks are a third thing, something completely unlike to what it is for the Croatians and Croatia. Note: the words Bleiburg and Jasenovac in this text have a symbolic meaning, along with the meaning that is real and factual.

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