Searching for Kosovo....for a human being

Ninoslav Randjelovic RSS / 12.06.2007. u 17:04

A 9-year long struggle to record, produce and present to the world video documentation about Kosovo tragedy has been a tremendously powerful experience for me. In the process, I have become  very much aware of how hard it has been to document simple facts of life and death of Serbs living in Kosovo. However, presenting these facts to the media (in Serbia or elsewhere) has been even harder to achieve.

As a Serb, I have often felt frustrated because of the lack of wisdom, interest and solidarity among Serbs themselves (regardless of where they live) considering this tragedy of ours. It seems to me that If we were any different, if we truly cared and believed in the values that we express so easily, we would have been able to defend all the people of Kosovo and remain worthy of our cultural heritage.

Unfortunately, our hearts have turned cold and our minds have become confused. We often talk about "patriotism," "tradition," and "democracy," but we have forgotten the basic issue – the "stuff" that all of these ideas are made of, such as loving each other, feeling compassion for our fellow human beings and being loyal to one another. In losing this, we might lose it all.

Thus, we have already lost the capacity to bear witness to this tragedy and to simply even acknowledge our own people as well as Albanians as fellow human beings.
That is why even the simplest thing such as documenting and recording the images of this tragedy, and presenting such documents to the world could not have been done by the official, professional media, but was left to "enthusiasts," or someone who might do it by chance.

The time has now come for all of us (Serbs and Albanians) to face who we have become. If we fail to do so, we will not be able to cure ourselves, to change, or to progress any further. We will simply perish as a nation or a civilized society.

Kosovo might very well become "independent" from Serbia, but it will continue to haunt everyone involved as a bad conscience tends to do and will not leave us independent from Kosovo. Unfortunately.

All that is left for me now is to try to successfully perform another "Don Quixote-style" task – to leave a DVD copy of my documentaries in political institutions, libraries, universities and major cultural institutions for some future students of history, religion or political sciences at various Universities all over the world.

If this video document helps them examine the downside of the "forced global democracy" in the Balkans, and warns future world leaders from causing it somewhere else, it will only mean that all of the Kosovo victims of ethnic hatred have remained relevant and did not simply vanish in vain.




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sonja k. sonja k. 17:40 12.06.2007

as a serb.....

JJ Beba JJ Beba 17:40 12.06.2007

Re: as a serb.....

Trinidad Tobagović Trinidad Tobagović 12:28 17.06.2007

ili po srpski džiberaštvo

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Rudeness is the (apparent) disrespect and failure to behave within the context of a society or a group of people's social laws or etiquette. These laws have already unspokenly been established as the essential boundaries of normally accepted behaviour. To be unable to align one's behaviour with these laws known to the general population of what is socially acceptable would considered rude.

Tamara Ćetković Tamara Ćetković 17:46 12.06.2007

Searching for Kosovo....

bganon bganon 20:09 12.06.2007

Interesting

Interested in seeing this DVD.

Ninoslav can you tell us a little more about this? I think a couple of your documentaries have been shown in Serbia but can you tell us whether they have been screened in Kosovo, where, and the reaction?

After all, its positive if people see your docs in academic institutions etc as you mention, but the real point is to show it to the people who are directly affected by the situation.
Ninoslav Randjelovic Ninoslav Randjelovic 20:17 12.06.2007

Re: Interesting

I agree !
Some information about this DVD is available on Internet.
Just Google my name or Days Made of Fear.
DVD has not been presented neither in Kosovo nor in Serbia. Not yet, at least.
It has been presented in Europe, Unites States and Australia.
bganon bganon 18:54 13.06.2007

Re: Interesting

'DVD has not been presented neither in Kosovo nor in Serbia. Not yet, at least'

Is there a reason for this?

I will take a look at Google video.

poz
Ninoslav Randjelovic Ninoslav Randjelovic 19:13 13.06.2007

Re: Interesting

The one reason that I can think of could be the fact that it shows the suffering and ethnic violence against the people that no one really wants to talk about in Kosovo or in Serbia.
dracena dracena 20:16 12.06.2007

Dragi Ninoslave,

po broju i vrsti komentara koji su dosad stigli na ovaj tvoj post vidi se kolika knedla u grlu zastane svakom kad se pomene ova bolna tema. Problem je ogroman, uzroci duboki, krivaca i odgovornih mnogo. Ljudi na Kosovu mnogo pate, najviše Srbi tj. ne-Albanci, ali i mnogi Albanci proživljavaju pakao. Ipak, niko se ne usudjuje da pomogne svim tim mučenicima da ne bi jednu toliko užasnu situaciju učinio još užasnijom. Ja razumem delom i strane političare. Kosovo je nemoguća misija za svakog. Svako ko može, izbeći će da učestvuje u njoj da bi se sačuvao od poraza. Svaka humanitarna akcija bi se mogla shvatiti kao političko opredeljivanje prema statusu, utoliko pre što je humanitarna katastrofa 1999. bila uzrok ili povod, svejedno, jedne opsežne vojne akcije na jednu evropsku zemlju (što izaziva naročito mučan osećaj kod svih stranih političara). Sve je u vezi sa Kosovom krupno, samo su ljudi i njihova gorka svakodnevica veličine glave čiode. Njih niko ne gleda, niti sme da ih gleda, ako hoće da sačuva svoju kožu.
Ninoslav Randjelovic Ninoslav Randjelovic 20:19 12.06.2007

Re: Dragi Ninoslave,

Ti ih pominjes.
Hvala !
dracena dracena 20:48 12.06.2007

Re: Dragi Ninoslave,

Eh, koja njima korist od mene? Mislila sam na ljugde koji donose odluke, koji mogu ili bi mogli da utiču na uslove u kojim oni žive.
Ninoslav Randjelovic Ninoslav Randjelovic 23:20 12.06.2007

Re: Dragi Ninoslave,

Neko od tih ljudi koji donose odluke MORA DA BUDE PITAN, PRINUDJEN, mozda javnim mnjenjem, da cini to sto bi morao da cini.

Tako, ovaj moj danasnji post je jedan od mnogih primera kako danas izgleda javno mnjenje sto se ove teme tice. Naravno, to je majusan primer sa obzirom da ja nisam nikakav ekspert za ovu temu ili nesto slicno i da je ovo "samo" blog, ali ipak je primer...
dracena dracena 00:38 13.06.2007

Re: Dragi Ninoslave,

Kakav ekspert to treba biti da bi se saosećalo sa onima koji pate? Dovoljno je samo biti dobar čovek.
Ovaj tvoj komentar me je podstakao da se zamislim o ljudskoj dobroti,. Pritom sam se setila jednog soneta i večeras prevrnula kuću da ga pronadjem. Mada je nastao u sasvim drugim uslovima i sa drugim povodom, možda neće biti neprimereno da ga ostavim, jer mu je poenta upravo na dobroti. Ako misliš da smeta, obriši ga slobodno, imam sačuvano u računaru.

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I slušam kako kuca dobrota
Kako diše dobrota i sanja dobrota.
Viktor Viktor 03:44 13.06.2007

net

Why not upload the documentary to the net also, and to this blog, youtube, anywhere really... It's also a good way to show it to the world today.
Ninoslav Randjelovic Ninoslav Randjelovic 11:02 13.06.2007

Re: net

They are on Internet - check Google video when you Google my name.

Arhiva

   

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