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- Good evening.
My name is Šeherzada Delić. I am here on behalf of the network 'Bosnian Spring'.
Or rather, I support these future-oriented, intelligent, young people with big hearts.
I am not here for my generation.
You're my generation. And you've destroyed it.
I am ashamed of it wherever I go.
Excuse me for speaking with so much emotion.
This is the nature of my profession. It's my job.
When I got the opportunity to speak to you
and point out your misdeeds— not deeds, misdeeds—
A doctor who performs an operation
may make a mistake and kill one patient.
But you, with your statements,
your actions, your votes,
your bribing and lobbying,
in one go kill a thousand people.
Because you don't represent their interests,
or you sell out.
Because even your shame has a price tag.
Everyone knows how much your shame costs.
When you betray your people
whom you've promised to lead to something better,
hopping from party to party, selling votes...
Everyone knows how much some are payed to vote
for another party than the one they represent.
People know.
Don't think that we're
simply howling at the moon.
You're not untouchable like the moon.
Nor are we sheep.
Nor hounds to howl.
Even though you like to say, 'Don't mind them,
people like to yap.'
Right now, we are the sterile zone—
we're what's stopping the bleeding—
between the masses who would devour you
and yourselves.
Up to you whether you're afraid.
I see that Mr. Kamber is not here today.
He was here, he got scared,
didn't want me calling him out like I do SDP.
SDP is not the only guilty party.
What did SDA do 15 years before them?
SDP just finished off what was left of our patience.
For 20 years you've been slowly drinking our blood.
The people have had enough.
How can you not be aware of this?
Because sadly, you're not.
- Please, please...
- Welcome. Sorry you weren't here,
but I'll say it again:
For 15 years SDA slowly drank our blood.
And SDP for the past 4 years.
I come before the president, not as Mr. Lipovača said
the president of those who graduated primary and secondary school,
but before the president of intellectuals of this city
who, for whatever reason, haven't been on the streets.
They didn't want to, or they thought, 'Nothing can change anyway,
like all these years that the members of parliament
have been peddling hot air.'
We all know that you're mimicking one another.
But you're egotistical.
You think that coming from you, things sound differently.
We have very intelligent people.
You asked Ms. Ida before, 'who is cleverer?'
Let me tell you, they are out there.
Clever and unemployed people, whom you're
keeping from getting jobs
that they could do 10,000 times better than you.
You can ask me, because I bring them forth.
Go to a school and see for yourselves
what the young people there are like,
what brilliant minds they are.
The things they want.
Mr. Kamber, you say you're a language teacher.
This includes litterature.
How can you fail to understand...
It's not just a comedy show,
the TV show 'Biće, biće' by Feđa Imamović.
It's a parody of you.
A critique of our government.
How can you not recognise yourselves?
How does it not fill you with shame?
It's not just there for you to sit back and laugh
and admire the actors' skill.
It should be making you cry.
Countless clever, young people,
intellectuals, scientists...
who we all know could not get into any position of power
could not realise their ideas because you've spread your tentacles
your spies and what have you,
you made sure to hold them down.
And even prevented them from saying anything.
Whoever made a sound,
disappeared.
Mr. Hadžipašić is talking about 'vital national interests'.
This is the card they're playing now. Well, let me tell you,
I stand here on behalf of Serbs, Croats and Muslims
and Jews and the Roma and everyone in this canton.
I claim this without a shred of doubt.
I am here on behalf of the empty pockets.
I've worked for 20 years.
I was a refugee with two small children.
Now I'm raising three.
And every year, I see 200 kids to graduation.
You may be thinking I am overly emotional.
A gentleman was telling me earlier, 'Don't be like that,
people don't like that much emotion.'
Actually, people need to see
that there are among us noble, sincere people
who want what's good for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Who want Bosnia and know how to lead.
We did not sell Bosnia.
Don't interrupt. I listened to you too.
This is a parliamentary assembly, do we agree on that?
It's not hard. They are there, they just need the chance.
They need to know how to get to the power.
I tell the kids every day, fight them!
Every day in class I speak badly about you.
You haven't inspired me to say anything nice.
I tell them, 'fight against their sort.'
How? With knowledge!
Correct Mr. Hadžipašić when he makes grammatical errors.
And so on.
Or when Ms. Mira keeps mispronouncing 'constitution'.
And she's supposed to be a professor of language.
I hope your faces are red.
Although like I said, even your shame has a price tag.
The people have truly had enough.
We have tried every democratic form of protest.
Hunger, pleading,
the intellect of television.
People write, direct,
they send films out into the world.
The world sees films about what you are like.
And you don't get it!
Because your diplomas were bought.
You don't know how to read, let alone interpret.
You don't feel the plight of the people.
The poeple have had enough of crying.
These young people are not hooligans.
They didn't do this out of recklessness.
They did it out of rage.
They're enraged because they're afraid.
Today, they have little money, tomorrow they will have even less.
The day after, maybe none at all.
It hurts them to see their parents out of work.
They are in their 30s like people here,
but no work experience, or your monthly salaries.
15,000 marks a month, what a skill!
For you to be making that kind of money!
We had agreed to all say how much we earn.
This is how much: 890 marks.
Twenty years of work experience.
How much do you make a month?
When you leave this room, you can tell us.
If you're not ashamed. I would be ashamed
to drive a fancy car on our streets.
Past these houses still full of bullet holes.
To build mansions in such surroundings.
In the midst of poverty.
Do you not realise that it is enough?
It's not just me saying this.
I am just here on behalf of those who feel this way.
To say it to your face because I'm not afraid.
I work in the public sector.
I work in a school.
Go ahead, have me fired.
Pull your connections, have the headmaster fire me tomorrow.
You put him there.
You removed a man who had
raised that school to a whole different rank.
You despise a hard worker.
You want the lazy types.
Excuse me, will you listen?
- Please, please...
- Don't think that you, SDA,
can use us to topple SDP.
Or any other party.
HDZ, SDS, SBB...
That we are the stepping stones
on your way back to power.
You won't.
None of you have deserved
to speak from this podium ever again.
As for the president of the canton,
who says he won't hand in a resignation,
we take it from him!
We're not asking him to hand it in,
what is with you people?
We take back his mandate
because we're the ones who gave it to him.
The people don't want him.
That's all you need to know.
Thank you.