Montenegrin basketball player made people angry because of NATO! A volleyball player replied: Do you remember the bombs?

An amazing story comes from Montenegro, where politics dug its fingers into sports, so the last few days,a verbal media war is in full shine between athletes from that country, and the main protagonists are the captain of the basketball team Suad Šehović and volleyball player Ksenija Ivanovic.

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Blog captain of the Montenegrin basketball team Suad Šehović, shocked the entire public in the region. In his article, the Buducnost basketball player, which he wrote from the camp of the national team before their trip to Iceland, commented that Montenegro should be under the auspices of NATO. He pointed out that it is best for the benefit of all residents of Montenegro, and the future of their children.

Šehović gained the inspiration for his text given that he spent one part of his career in Ukraine, that has been in the middle of a civil war for some time now. The current captain of "Buducnost" spent the 2011/12 seaon in Kiev Budivelnik as a basketball player, and then Himik, and recalled the period of his life in Ukraine in his blog.

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- Life in the Ukraine for some reason, was not as easy and carefree as when I first came to that country. In the air, among people, in the media, and even in the sports fields the fear of uncertainty, fear for safety began looming ... and it was justified. It all culminated in November 2013, Kiev became the scene of  struggle and conflict ...

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- I am in contact with friends from Ukraine. It is better, but not easy ... As someone who has spent plenty of time at the beginning of the millennium in Sarajevo, in war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina, I felt the pain of these people and I know very well what the consequences of war and unrest  leave on a country, population, economy and life ...

He connected this with his present life in Montenegro, where he continued his basketball career, and added that he only cares about the future of his daughter and that is why we all need to be unique when it comes to entry into the North Atlantic Alliance.

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- My daughter was born in Montenegro. The only thing I worry about today is a better future. We must not have a dilemma about one thing, and that is that we must all build a better future for us and our children. I am convinced that Montenegro has to play on a stronger team, and better, in order for it to be the best for herself, for you, for me, for your children and for my children and for their children and their children's children - wrote Šehović and then stated what, in his opinion, was the solution to this.

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- The team has no alternative, under the auspice of NATO - concluded Šehović.

FURIOUS REACTION TO HIS TEXT

Sehovic's story caused a lot of negative comments in the public, and incited reactions from other Montenegrin athletes. Among the first to reply was Ksenija Ivanovic, volleyball player of the national team of this country. She told him that he should direct people to the sports field, and not to the military alliances, as he did in his text. She sent him an open letter.

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In the article she stated that while she was flipping through the daily press, a picture of him beside the NATO flag caught her eye, and after reading the text she replied to him, because, much like he had a horrible experience in Ukraine, she experienced something similar, in Montenegro in 1999 because of the bombs from that particular NATO, whose membership he urges for Montenegrins.

- You say that you had a bad experience in Ukraine where you feared for your safety because of the events in the eastern part of the country, at a distance of some 200 kilometers from Kiev, it is important to ask whether you feel threatened when that same NATO at 30 kilometers from your Bijelo Polje sows death,  here, in Murin. - Ksenija Ivanovic began her text, and then cited the specific examples of the bombing of innocent victims, among whom was her grandfather.

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- You say that you returned to Montenegro in 2013 to shelter your family from security risks in Ukraine, so I wonder, dear captain,

what would you say to the parents of Oliver Maksimovic and Julia Brudar, whose parents also fled from Kosovo to Murin counting that NATO would not bomb  this small town.

- They still did, in broad daylight, just after they finished school classes during the market day, at the time when most people were in the vicinity of the bridge, which was the target of their bombing.

- What would you say to my uncles and my mother, whose father was killed in Murin on April 30th, 1999? - asked the volleyball team member.

NATO bombardovanje SRJ 1999. godine. Foto: S. Pikula

- Much like you remember the beauty of Kiev,  I too remember the beauty of Murin, the old stone bridge, and the hotel next to the bridge where my grandfather, Mano, worked and in front of which he greeted me each holiday.

- From all of the above, from April 30, 1999 there is no longer Murin's old bridge, not a hotel, nor my grandfather, nor the other five innocent victims, and all merits go to,  as you say,  the "team with no alternative, NATO". Instead of all that, a memorial fountain with six photographs of innocent victims is all that remains - reminding us of that day.

She stated that each coin has two sides, as is the case with NATO, about whose dark side Šehović did not write about in his text. Ksenija concluded her text by pointing out  that professional athletes should promote sports, healthy life and fair play, and direct children and young people to fight battles on the sports field,  and not under the auspices of voluntary association.

(Telegraf.co.uk)