Joan Larcinese
Eight-thirty in the morning. And 'the twenty-sixth of April 2010 in Sarajevo and the sky is overcast, as always, we have to wait May for the first rays of sunshine in the city. I take a taxi, via Dobojska direction, it's cold and it's early, but the retired general even if he does not like delays, punctuality and respect are the legacy that the job has left him. As soon as you utter the address the driver smiles at me, he knows that I'm going to Jovan Divjak, has accompanied many scholars and journalists curious about the history of ethics iron man in the name of its principles has always put at risk its position, defending the community and the multiculturalism of Serb Sarajevo under siege. Although he himself Serbian. And by giving up his military career for which he does not like to be too still called "General" has been established for fifteen years an organization that awards scholarships to orphans of war and ethnic Roma children without any distinction. The history of Jovan Divjak, in essence the reason dell'andirivieni taxi from the city center to the hill where he established his association for orphans of war, is intertwined with the history of Yugoslavia in all its development, from monarchy when he was born in Belgrade and was then transferred to the Bosnian Krajina, that Socialist Divjak when he decided to pursue a military career. Although he would have preferred to study in the psychological economic hardship will lead him to opt for a military career but still fascinate to their profession thanks to the prime movers for the Carabinieri Yugoslav People: the representation of all nationalities in the Yugoslav territory. It is these principles will be those who will try very hard to defend when Divjak, the declaration of independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991 he decided to enlist, unlike many of his fellow Serbs in the Bosnian ranks in defense of Sarajevo since now under siege, that before the war of the nineties brought the highest rate of intermarriage in the whole of Yugoslavia (over 30%). In less than no time the city Yugoslavia was attacked by militias that have become, over the years, typically crowded with young people enrolled and Serbs Jovan Divjak without a second thought he decided to defend the integrity of its membership by giving multicultural Bosnian all'Armija but not conditioned by making its development in the nationalist Over the years, Divjak will be an inconvenient fact in the army because he will sue over and over again that the protection afforded by the Bosnian government in Sarajevo mafia war that made their profits and were responsible for crimes against harsh non-Muslims residing in the city. Despite his faithful work nell'Armija Bosnia, which will see the release of the Bosnian President Izetbegovic held hostage by the Shipowner Yugoslav People, Divjak was always viewed with suspicion by his colleagues who considered him a spy Serbia. And now finally clear him to have his arrest in Vienna followed by a warrant of arrest by the Serbian government. The accusation is that of war crimes for the actions of Dobrovoljacka way, those that have been commented by the daily Oslobodjenje as "the most difficult day in the history of Sarajevo." On that day, in fact, the hotheads in the Bosnian President Izetbegovic and was freed, began to shoot against the Yugoslav military, despite Divjak he shouted to the whole voice from the megaphone to stop shooting. In memory of Serbia that was the day when forty young people were killed unjustly, despite the subsequent 1200 and several days on the Serbian siege of Sarajevo, the tens of miliaia of victims to come and more than a thousand shells a day on the town.
It 's noon, and 2 May 2010, the anniversary of that day so difficult. They call me on the phone, say that the commemoration of the young Serbian girl died in that back in 1992 there are about 200 policemen to protect the procession of some twenty Serbs. I leave the race, but I want to see what's going on around town and I can not find anyone. The commemoration is over and the bartender in Carsija smile tells me that there was no tension and tuttosommato protection disproportionate to the number of participants.
And it's finally March 2, 2011, are 22:30 and Jovan Divjak was arrested in Vienna. Sarajevo is shocked by the arrest of Jovo, in the city rise up protest but more frightening is the new worsening of relations between the Serbian and Bosnian governments in a situational post-conflict peace-building at the bottom never been sincere and that can bring back, once time to be afraid of tomorrow in the former Yugoslav territory. 
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