Letter to the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic
ExpiredLETTER TO THE COMMISSIONER RODOLJUB SABIC
Dear Mr Sabic,
We are writing with a wish to express our gratitude and praise for your work and the work of your assistants, especially Ms Gordana Sunjevaric and Ms Natalija Cetkovic.
We would particularly like to emphasise that we are aware of the importance of the new Free Access to Information of Public Importance Act, your hard work in the application of this law and selfless help that you have given us, Serbian citizens, as we are the ones having to deal with harassment at the windows of government agencies on daily basis.
You and your team have brought a little light into the Serbian “darkness”, where representatives of public authorities behave as if they were lords, the only masters holding the proof of the truth, which, by no means, must reach ordinary people. They probably do not think that we deserve the truth as we have swallowed all the lies we have been served so far and that no one ever had to bear consequences for.
The management and most of the members of the Serbian Restitution Network have lived as the second-rate citizens in Serbia for over six decades, which is why our gratitude and the respect we have for you is even greater. In accordance with the Reporting and Registration Act, in 2005 and 2006 we were forced to collect all the papers in order to prove all the methods in which our property was taken from us after the World War II. We would not have been able to do this if you and your team had not helped us by implementing the Law we were quoting.
You must have made many enemies on all government levels because you constantly and consistently insisted on the application of this law. We, original owners, were the ones who felt all the weight of the fifty-year long single-mindedness. Communists were taking “in the name of the people”, those that have the power today, in spite of repeatedly saying that “it is fair to right the wrongs” are giving away our property to the privileged individuals and thus not only denying our ownership but also our physical existence.
Dear Mr Sabic,
You are the best proof that it is actually possible that a single person can change the course of history. If all politicians had your conscious and if they were less self-centred and megalomaniac while performing their public duties hundreds of people in Serbia would now be spared poverty.
If you are revealed from the duty of the Commissioner, Serbian citizens will lose again and the political-criminal lobby that holds Serbia hostage and as far from the normal world as possible will win again.
There are many people who want to but cannot do anything to make things better. There are those who can but do not want to do anything. Rare are those who can and want to do something to change things for the better. You belong to the third, smallest group of people in Serbia. With your honest work you have entered one of the more positive pages in our history, at the beginning of the new century. At this moment, few are those who can join you there.
On behalf of all members of the Serbian Restitution Network and on our own behalf, we are sending our warmest regards, wishing that you continue with the same force to make changes in the application of the law that you have started.
