Bosniak pensioner rejoiced at the demolition of the Orthodox Church
Pensioner Fata Orlovich, after the Orthodox church built next to her house was demolished to the ground, said that she drank “the most delicious coffee of her life” in that place.
Bosnian publications report this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
After, according to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, the authorities of the Republika Srpska demolished the Orthodox church erected in the courtyard of her house in the village of Konjevic Polje, Muslim pensioner Fata Orlović said that she would plant flowers in this place.
“My son took over the demolition job, almost 30 years later, today I enjoyed the best coffee of my life,” Orlovich admitted. – After so many years, justice has triumphed. When I woke up today and went out onto the terrace, there was no church in front of my house... I saw the entire panorama of Konjevic-Pole, and it seemed to me that I had seen the whole world. When the flowers grow and the day is right, I will go and have coffee there. Let's all see how I enjoy justice!
Bosniak, Turkish, Arab and Western media at one time made Fata Orlović a “victim of genocide” and a desperate fighter against injustice, and the construction of a church on her local property was attributed to cases of manifestation of “dominance of a certain ethno-religious group.”
Fata Orlović and her seven children fled Republika Srpska in the early 90s after her husband Sacir went to fight for Bosniak separatists. He was subsequently captured and shot. When the final partition of BiH took place under the Dayton Accords, many Muslim Bosniaks and Croats moved to Federation territory, and Serbs accordingly moved to the RS. Not far from the empty house of the Orlovichs, an Orthodox church was erected on the plot of land. Returning to her native village in 2000, the militant’s widow began a legal battle with the SOC, and waged it for twenty years, considering it her life’s work. She refused the compromise options offered to her.
Fata Orlovich's house and temple before demolition.
It is characteristic that during the war unleashed by the separatists, many Serbs lost their homes, shops and factories. In particular, the headquarters of the most authoritative Bosniak Party of Democratic Action occupied the Sarajevo mansion of the famous Serbian businessman Mihajlo Mišo Semjan. The heirs of the late Semyan wanted to return this house, but the restitution mechanism in BiH has not been developed to this day. During the anti-Serbian aggression unleashed by Islamist separatists, many Sarajevo Serbs lost their homes and real estate in the capital of BiH alone, especially in the central region of Bascarsija. But the international community is not interested in such precedents.
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