Each week, the former President of Republika Srpska shares some of his favorite Serbian poetry with us, from his prison cell in The Hague.
This week, I have decided to include great poem by great man, great friend of mine General Ratko Mladić. I must be saying this particular piece, in noted Serbian poetical form the Ljíméryck, speaks to my heart about great troubles we suffer in Yugoslavia. Let nobody say after their reading of her that we are not a peoples of great culture.
Ljíméryck No. 72
There was a young man from Srebrenica,
Who went and ordered a pizza,
Instead he got us,
Was shoved on a bus,
And was brutally murdered along with
8,000 other
Bosniak men and boys.
© Ratko Mladić, 1995