When the aggressor becomes a victim and the victim becomes the aggressor!

Today marks 100 years since the Sarajevo Assassination, where the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - Archduke Franz Ferdinand - was killed. This assassination was the cause of the start of the First World War, which brought terrible destruction, suffering and millions and millions of lives lost. The wounds of this war will not heal easily, because from the injustices done after its end, Europe will enter into other horrors: the Second World War and the wars that destroyed the Balkans in the 90s of the last century.

The assassination in Sarajevo was carried out by the Serb Gavrillo Princip, a member of the nationalist organization New Bosnia, but who was connected to the Serbian terrorist organization Black Hand (Crna Ruka), at the head of which stood the most powerful people of the Army and the politics of Serbia.

The Black Hand was led by Serbian colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, known by the nickname Apis. This was the one who, in June 1903, cruelly killed the Serbian king, his wife, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense of Serbia. The then king, Aleksandar Obrenović, was known more for his pro-Western policies, while Apis naturally wanted Serbian politics to be tilted towards Russia. Thus, with this assassination, in 1903, the dynasty of the House of Obrenović comes to an end, while the House of Karagjorgjevic, headed by Petar Karagjorgjevic, comes to power - from exile.

Serbia, since 1878 when it was recognized as a state - allegedly as the biggest victim of the Ottoman occupation - had expanded its territories by conquests. After the Balkan Wars, it conquers Kosovo, Sanjak, Macedonia... But, its conquering appetites, to be a dominant nation in the southeast of Europe, do not know how to stop. Therefore, the Sarajevo assassination was nothing but Serbia's expansionist ambition to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at that time was under the control of Austria-Hungary.

And what happened then? It is known, the June Ultimatum with 10 points addressed to Austria-Hungary. Serbia, scared and without the support of militarily weakened France and Russia, accepts all points except the one with number 6 - that the Austro-Hungarian policemen act for investigations in Serbia - because this limited its state sovereignty. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and then what is known as the First World War took place.

Serbia, even 100 years after the Sarajevo attack, is trying to wash itself of this terrorist act, as it has done in the past and as it does today, connecting its crimes only with the names of individuals. Therefore, it is worth remembering that Apis, the most influential man in Serbian political circles, was shot by those who brought him to power, on June 24, 1917 in Corfu, Greece, allegedly for planning the assassination of regent Alexander I Karagjorjevic. But, in fact, he was shot by politics to justify to the Austro-Hungarians that the Serbian state was not involved in the assassination of Sarajevo and that Serbia was not to blame for the start of the First World War. Let's not forget that in this year, when the USA was not involved in the war, the world believed that the Central Axis Powers would emerge victorious in this war, therefore the Serbs wanted at all costs to protect their state and be on the side of the winner!

The end of the First World War brought other great injustices. Germany, Austria and Hungary were humiliated and truncated in territories. The Albanians lost hope of returning the occupied lands, let alone seeking any reparations for the crimes the Serbs committed by withdrawing their Army to Greece. Kosovo began to be colonized and the Albanians were forcibly displaced.

The Serbs, playing the role of the victim - always with the support of the winning powers of the First World War - annexed Vojvodina, while extinguishing the Kingdom of Montenegro, uniting this country to itself. Also, they annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, while keeping Croatia and Slovenia under control through the so-called Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom that will later be called Yugoslavia.

The injustices caused after World War I brought the world into World War II. Even from this war, the Serbs came out playing the role of the victim, and even announcing themselves as a people who have suffered as much as the Jews. Serbian propaganda claimed that in the Jasenovac Camp - in independent Croatia under the Usta regime of Ante Pavelic - over a million of them were killed, anathema to anyone who brought other facts (in Jasenovac it is said that over 40 thousand Serbs were killed and as many other nationalities).

With this logic, after 1945, Albanians were persecuted as alleged collaborators of Nazi-fascism, that is, violators of the rights of Serbs. With this logic, ostensibly to protect the Serbs from further victimization, "from the repetition of the past", war breaks out in Slovenia, in Croatia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo.

And were the Serbs ever found guilty? No, because even the last wars are connected with the name of only one man: once with Apis and later Slobodan Milosevic. The latter died at the Hague Tribunal, without being found guilty. With his death, Serbia achieved its goal: it once again defied the world and international justice, with a marathon trial in which no verdict was given. Milosevic's death again deprived his victims of justice; dealt a blow to the Tribunal and all those who wanted to install the truth and the official files of the Balkan wars.

Thus, Serbia continues to deny guilt as a state for any crime committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. In fact, they continue to play the role of the victim, of their Milosevic regime, without which they brought him to power.

Their "victimization" is not difficult to notice, especially in Serbia's relations with Kosovo. And they are succeeding! If not with the Croats, then with the Albanians.

The aggressor Serbs still continue to play the role of the victim. And the Albanians, the real victims, thanks to their leaders, are being treated as aggressors. Serbia is being respected more, because it does not usurp itself, does not do aggression to itself, does not harm itself. Serbia loves its country and its people, and they have proven this throughout history. Therefore, this is the lesson that is not difficult to learn from those who will continue to threaten us. Simply, we must learn to love the country, Kosovo, Albania and the Albanian - wherever he is. Otherwise, their victories at our expense will not stop.