La Ligue anticorruption des Balkans
La Ligue anticorruption des Balkans reprend l'idée de la lutte contre la corruption telle que conçue par Verica Barać, par de nombreux lanceurs d'alertes et d'autres acteurs impliqués dans la lutte contre la corruption qui sévit dans les Balkans
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La Ligue anticorruption des Balkans est le résultat d'un large mouvement anticorruption provenant d'activistes et d'organisations dans la région, principalement Occupy Croatia, le Mouvement 99% Serbie, divers activistes de l'Alliance pour la défense des biens communs en Serbie, plusieurs hacktivistes du groupe Anonymous Serbie ainsi que du Mouvement Choc et résistance au régime dictatorial - désobéissance civile du Monténégro. A cela s'ajoutent nombres d'associations et d'initiatives qui combattent la corruption, telles que Le Syndicat indépendants des douaniers de Croatie, l'Association pour la lutte contre la corruption, la criminalité et les discriminations au sein des établissements et institutions publiques de Bosnie-Herzégovine, dont la présidente, la lanceur d'alertes Irina Lovric, s'est jointe aux activités de la Ligue anticorruption, l'Association Kulin Ban des travailleurs lésés des petits actionnaires en Croatie. La Ligue anticorruption a également recruté des personnalités qui luttent de longue date contre la corruption : Le journaliste Denis Latin, le journaliste d'investigation Domagoj Margetic et l'expert juridique Sulejman Tabakovic. Le rockeur et activiste, leader du groupe Atomsko skloniste, Bruno Langer, a lui aussi apporté son soutien à la Ligue anticorruption.
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The
Balkan Anti-corruption league was formed as a wide anti-corruption
movement of activists from various activist movements in the region,
mainly the Occupy Croatia movement and the 99% of Serbia movement as
well as activists from the Alliance for the defense of public well-being
in Serbia, the hacking team Anonymous Serbia and the movement Fight
and Resist the Dictatorship regime – civil disobedience from
Montenegro, with the support from many anti-corruption associations and
initiatives such as the Independent union of customs officials of
Croatia, The association for the fight against corruption, crime and
discrimination in public institutions in BiH, whose president and
well-known Bosnian whistleblower Irina Lovrić has engaged herself in the
work of the Anti-corruption league and The association Kulin Ban of
unlawfully dispossessed shareholders in Croatia. Many well-known and
long-term anti-corruption activists have also involved themselves in the
works of the Anti-Corruption league: the eminent journalist and author
of the cult TV show ‘‘Latinica’’ Denis Latin, the investigative
journalist Domagoj Margretić and the established law expert Sulejman
Tabaković. The well-known rock musician and civil activist, frontman of
the band ‘‘Atomsko sklonište’’ Bruno Langer has also given support to
the Anti-corruption league.
Work is about the combined
initiatives of many long-term anti-corruption activists, whose now
combined strengths go into an open regional war against corruption! For
that reason, this is a front, not just another initiative. Other than
that, this front is formed as an answer to corruption in the so called
non-government sector, with whose ‘‘fight against corruption’’ that is
heavily charged, often from taxpayers, is actually covering up systemic
corruption and preventing a systematic battle against corruption in our
countries. The Balkan Anti-corruption league follows the idea of
anti-corruption struggle of Verica Brarać and other similar
anti-corruption activists, many whistleblowers and other fighters
against corruption in the Balkans.
The activist movement of the
Balkan Anti-corruption league was spurred in part because of the
corrupt state of the so called non-government sector, the related
corruption and active cooperation of ‘‘non-government anti-corruption
associations’’ in covering up systemic corruption and drawing public
attention off of big and important corruption affairs as well as because
of the systemic corruption in government structures and systemic
corruption on a local level. Many ‘‘non-government associations’’ which
received money from the state or local budget, some quasi-government
funding or openly from political parties, various state and public
companies controlled by the parties in power, simply became part of the
systemic corruption network of the transitional political and tycoon
elite in every country in the Balkans. In other words, for many chiefs
of these NGOs, the ‘‘battle against corruption’’ is just good business
and on one hand, a source of income, while on the other, they use their
seeming battle against corruption for a mean to become a part the system
and a way of positioning themselves on some powerful positions, thus in
one way or another participating in the corrupt transition system in
the Balkans.
The battle against corruption is for us the
ultimate question in building a true democratic, civil secular and
modern society in the countries in the Balkans, formed after the breakup
of Yugoslavia. We wish first of all to insist on the truth about the
transition in the Balkans, the truth about the agreed wars in the
Balkans in the 1990s and the truth about the stealing in the newly
founded countries in the Balkans carried out by the members of the
political, tycoon and banking elite, worth tens of billions of Euros,
more accurately three and a half times the state budget of every country
formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia. We are here to challenge the
entire Balkan transitional oligarchy to a duel, the final clash and
laying of the bill in front of our countries’ citizens. Their power is
based on blood, war crimes, stealing of the public goods, war-profiting
privatizations, organized and systematic destruction of the economies in
the Balkan countries and stealing and destroying strategically
important resources on which the progress of every society and economy
is founded. We’ve organized ourselves to make a statement towards the
corrupt Balkan oligarchs: The time has come to settle the score with
you! This no-compromise battle against this kind of oligarchic
transitional system has no alternative! Under the name of democracy, you
built a powerful oligarchic architecture and hierarchy of power, which
you keep with the money you stole from us citizens, and with the current
political system of parliamentary democracy, with which you abuse the
legitimacy of our votes for the goals of keeping the positions of power
of the transitional oligarchy. This system, based on the agreed wars of
the 90s with which you covered up your stealing, the stealing of
communal goods and strategic resources, on massive war crimes and
war-profiting stealing on a massive scale, based on international
smuggling and mafia structuring of government institutions as mafia or
semi-mafia criminal organizations, does not have nor ever will have a
democratic national legitimacy.
Our message to the corrupt
Balkan transitional oligarchy is clear: Your time is up! Time has come
for direct democracy! Time has come for a new social and political order
in which every vote, every citizen and his right to choose will be the
foundation of the law legitimacy, the foundation on deciding about all
important matters of the community and society. A citizen becomes a
subject of deciding and not an object of your forced upon decisions
which you bring in the name and for some background interests, whom you
were corrupted by. For us, the battle against corruption and crime is a
very important factor in the process of healing the society. The Balkan
oligarchy built its empire by stealing the communal (state) property,
and with the accumulated capital, acquired via the organized stealing of
the Balkan countries, war-profiting, and organized crime based on the
international smuggling of weapons, oil, drugs, cigarettes and people,
wants to grab the rest of the communal goods for pennies.
Just
because of that a serious fight against corruption is the main
prerequisite to solving many open questions and problems of the
transitional societies in the Balkans, such as questions of social
security of the citizens, free education, quality and accessible health
insurance, equality in front of the law, equal possibilities in society,
equal rights to work, rights at work and a personal income which
provides the citizens with a quality and dignified life. Other than
these basic questions, the battle against corruption is a prerequisite
to any type of progress and development at all. However, the system
which generates corruption cannot be the initiator of the battle against
corruption at the same time.
It is because of this, that we
started our direct action of battling against corruption and have joined
into a regional Balkan Anti-corruption league. Enough! Time has come
for an organized resistance against the Balkan oligarchy. Time has come
to return the blows which we’ve been receiving for decades from the
members of their oligarchic system of power. Time has come to hit on the
political mafia! That’s why our unified anti-corruption front was
created.
That’s why we call on to all the citizens of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia and other Balkan
countries, especially Slovenia and Macedonia, to join us in the Balkan
Anti-corruption league, and to join us in the Balkan march against
corruption, which will for now be held simultaneously at three
locations: 2.11.2013, at 17:00 in Zagreb, at Josip Ban Jelačić square,
by the clock, in Belgrade, at Knez Mihail square (ex Pozorišni sq.), by
the horseman, and in Podgorica at Sveti Petar Cetinjski square. With
this anti-corruption action, which is just the beginning of the opening a
unified Balkan anti-corruption front, we are also a part of an
international initiative ‘‘March against corruption’’ which is organized
by activists around the world that same day. The Anti-corruption league
will be the voice of the citizens, the voice of the whistleblowers and
the voice of the victims of corruption. That’s why we call on to
citizens to report cases of corruption thus engaging themselves in the
work of the Anti-corruption league. Feel free to discretely and
anonymously report corruption and individual cases on our mail:
antikorupcijskaliga@gmail.com, or just simply leave us a message on our page https://www.facebook.com/antikorupcijskaliga
or via message on our twitter profile @Antikorupcijska. You can also
engage yourself by going to the Balkan march against corruption, of
which you can find out more on the page: https://www.facebook.com/events/584440038270426/. We expect other initiatives and activist groups from the region to join the activities of the Balkan Anti-corruption league.