Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje Announces Abolition of Segregation Laws

14 January 2008

In an open letter to High Representative Miroslav Lajcak, the B&H Federation Parliament, FBiH Government and the Constitutional Court, the Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje Association expressed its bitterness over the segregation introduced by the new legislation that allows certain people to retire under privileged conditions, totally opposed to the European Convention of Human Rights and Freedoms.

The association believes it is unacceptable that, at a time when most vulnerable categories of population barely manage to make it; when one half of the population seeks any job possible; when construction workers and miners struggle to retire with a half-decent pension of 250-300 KM monthly, some privileged members of the, in reality inexistent, BiH Army, to retire early, with high pensions and severances.

The letter notes that, while many qualified young people walk around unemployed, the boards of many industrial companies are filled with �generals� who were not capable of doing even the job for which they were educated.

- We have replaced a system based on dictatorship of the proletariat, instead of a democracy bases on rule of law, with dictatorship of privileged over the proletariat, concludes the letter, demanding that, in order to create new jobs for the youth, all pensioners are true pensioners, and not people that receive several other honoraria and salaries.