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📝🗣️📢 We must strive for peace. And we must strive for reconciliation! The future of our children depends on it. Today I laid flowers on the grave of the Albanian girl Blerina Jashari, who was killed when she was 7 years old. And I gave a speech. This is the text of my speech in English, word for word (you can find the Serbian version in the previous post): “15 days ago, as you know, the same axis of evil that sowed hatred and death in the Balkans three decades ago, beat and arrested a man of my nation, who was standing in this very place before me. The formal and official accusation of the judicial authorities of Serbia read: "that Serb laid flowers on the grave of the murdered Albanian girl Blerina Jašari, and that's why we have to arrest him". 25 years after the Second World War, it was the year 1970. The Germans, who lost part of their historical territory due to the injustice against the Poles, came to Warsaw to pay their respects to the victims of their injustice. Today, millions of Poles and Germans, in close cooperation of every possible kind, together form the backbone of free Europe, and the children of their mixed marriages enjoy the benefits of the created peace, despite a history that was cruel. 25 years after the Kosovo war, as the last Balkan war, my country arrests and beats people who, by laying flowers on the graves of Albanian children, want reconciliation between nations. It is a sign that we must not ignore. It is a clear warning that evil has not been defeated, that it is waiting for its time to reawaken. That evil is now trying to kill the hope that our common quality future is possible. But those attempts failed. And it will always fail! Because as you can see, I am standing here before you today. I came here not only to express my sorrow for the murdered citizens after 26 years. I came here not only to honor the victims. I have come here to make a clear message: we, who are building a better future for our people, are not afraid! We weren't afraid yesterday, we're not afraid today, And we won't be afraid tomorrow either. Nor will anyone prevent us from walking the path of reconciliation, peace, solidarity, and justice. If my country arrested and beat Nikola Sandulović because he laid flowers in this place according to his conscience and according to his opinion, now my country gets the opportunity to arrest me too and to announce to the world that it has a new rule, according to which laying flowers of reconciliation to the graves of other nations, is punishable by imprisonment. If that's not the case, then they have to explain to that same world why my roses are different from Nicole's, or anyone else's roses, why I'm the exception who hasn't been arrested. Arrested or not, I will still be a free man, as many are, because freedom does not come from judgment, nor does prison come from bars. Freedom comes from the heart of man. We, who have no fear, because good people have nothing to fear of, we have already explained oursselfs . Of all the messages that leave this place, this one is the most important: freedom will always win! Blairina, hate dies, you live forever. May thousands of tears create thousands of years of peace. And millions of hopes and dreams, which begin with the word - forgive!” Cedomir Stojkovic 18. January 2024. ___ And now I'm waiting to see if I will be arrested tomorrow in Serbia.