You don’t need to buy me flowers,

just take me to a garden.

Josip Boljkovac
Photo: Ronald Gorsic/Cropix

The 94 year old, Josip Boljkovac, was acquitted by the Zagreb County Court on Thursday 22 May of war crimes against civilians in the aftermath of WWII.

The 94-year old Boljkovac was accused that in the early May of 1945, as head of the Karlovac branch of the then Department of National Security (OZNA), which was the Tito-led Partisans’ security service, he had ordered the arrest and execution of 21 civilians from Duga Resa.

Judge Tomislav Jurisa handed down the Judgment, acquitting Boljkovac of the war crime while, in the same breath saying that “there is no doubt that the crime was committed but that there was no written order for the execution of the crime … not a single document leads to Boljkovac … it was simply a matter of crime committed by the system …which crimes have compromised the historically-affirmative antifascist battle…

she’s been so tired,
for everything,
for all the worries,
for all the pain,
she asked herself,
what is the reason I keep living?

until she feels a warm touch,
from outside,
a hand,
a warm hand,

then she realized,
the answer to her question,
she’s been living for that hand,
the hand which let her keep fighting,
through all the pains,

she closed her eyes,
and she beats,
she pumps,
until she opens her eyes,
and see that she’s shining,
the light radiates her surroundings,

she was a heart,
a heart whose still living,
in spite of all the grief,
she’s been suffering,
she keeps fighting,
until the day came that she shines,
she sparks endlessly,
and all the grief, pain and worries,
had been washed away