The Serbs Are After My DNA
January 15, 2008
“I can tell from the hue of skin, your blood is blue, like mine,” lisps the wan, wheelchair-bound man in his high-pitched Eastern European accent. “You must come visit your home. Come visit Zvezdara.” The lanky giant of chiseled stone towering behind the chair grunts in assent. I smile and nod; what else can I do?
No, I’m not in Serbia, but Budapest, 200 or so kilometers north of that country’s border. Truthfully, only later did I learn of my interlocutor’s Serbian connection after Googling various spellings of the word “Zvezdara.” As far as I could tell, it’s just one of many municipalities that make up the city of Belgrade. But tonight, it is being cast as my forgotten homeland.
Kara and I had been at the Viking Pub for a while and had already downed a few pints of Kaltenburg Barna when my long-lost relative and his sinister cohort wheeled in. I felt his stare immediately, but with the strong beer warming my blood, I didn’t care much.
He soon struck up a conversation. Introducing himself as Dr. Zorica, he queried me on the normal topics at first, but the subject gradually shifted to what I knew of my ethnic background. Before long, he was expounding at great length about a place I had never heard of with a pronunciation I could not repeat, where all the people were of noble, ‘blue-blooded’ descent. They had been forced out of this paradise over the centuries by one tragedy or another, and now Dr. Zorica was trying to bring them back.
“I know a man with same name as you. He is Zvezdarian, and he lives in Zvezdara. He is a baker, and he’s happy for you to stay with him.” Every so often, the rigid henchman leans down out of the shadows to whisper something in deep, thick Slavic into the good doctor’s ear. They both chuckle. “Yes, yes, my associate thinks you would like it very much in Zvezdara.”
By the end, I am so utterly perplexed, and more than a little intoxicated, that I go along with his request to take my photo and my email address. He shows no interest in Kara. “Sorry,” she is told, “your blood is not blue like ours.” And then he quite matter-of-factly states that he needs to measure my cranium.
This is a bit too much. Kara and I awkwardly make our exit, stumbling into the crisp spring night, speechless.
Several days go by, and I get an email from Dr. Milosh Zorica, Project Coordinator for the USA, Canada, and Scandinavia, of the Institute Deda Mile in Zvezdara. I’m in luck, it tells me. Researchers at the Institute are 95% sure my origins are Zvezdarian. However, to be sure, they require a sample of my DNA. “Just cut a little bit of your hair and send it to me in way I will describe you later.”
Even though I send no reply, a follow-up email the next week offers me a Zvezdarian ID card. And then of course there’s my free three-month trip, to be overseen by my own personal host, Earl Darko Trifunovic XVI. To seal the mystery, the correspondence closes with this: “Have nice time and lots of luck in life as Zvezdarian. You should keep it secret for next six months.”
So, if you have an inkling that blue blood courses through your veins, I suggest you head to the Viking Pub in Budapest. If you’re lucky, Dr. Zorica will be waiting for you.
About the author:Freelance writer Hal Amen has been an avid traveler for as long as he can remember, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. His articles have appeared on the Traveler’s Notebook website, and he has recently created a blog to document his wayward experiences at http://wayworded.blogspot.com/.
Truth about DARKO TRIFUNOVIC - Serbian Self-Proclaimed “Terrorism Expert”, Identity Thief, and Srebrenica Genocide Denier
On March 12 2002, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia & Herzegovina (comprised of Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats) fired Darko Trifunovic from B&H diplomatic services due to his involvement in document forgery.
Only after expulsion from the diplomatic service of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Darko Trifunovic became self proclaimed “expert on terrorism” writing mostly against Bosnia and Herzegovina and labeling anybody who criticized him as “Al Qaeda terrorist.”
As an experienced document forgerer and identity thief, he offered his services to defense teams of various indicted Serb war criminals at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY).
In 2001, he stated for B92 he even had evidence that indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic (who on numerous occasions threatened the total destruction of Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia-Herzegovina) obeyed Geneva Convention. It would not be surprising to learn that Darko Trifunovic forged and submitted those kinds of documents for defense teams of many indicted Serb war criminals.
Here is an archived press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quote:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the decision on suspension of Darko Trifunovi?, who has worked at the MFA BiH since 2 April 2001, performing diplomatic function - the First Secretary at BiH Mission to UN. In accordance with the rules of service, Trifunovi? will be deprived from BiH diplomatic passport and he will be unable to obtain a travel document for his return to BiH, since it is about the man who falsified BiH
citizenship.
Following the conclusion of BiH Council of Ministers to review citizenship of all employees in state service bodies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH asked from the Ministry of Civil
Affairs and Communications of BiH to review the way in which Trifunovi? gained BiH citizenship in 1996.
By the review, it was established that Trifunovi? cancelled his registration on 27 March 1996 from the register of residence in Belgrade, where he was born, and on the same date he registered in Br?ko. According to the fictive residence, he obtained ID card of BiH on the same date.
Since the procedure of the issuance of ID card was illegal, Police Service in Br?ko District cancelled residence and BiH ID card, Decision dated 25 February 2002.
On the basis of these facts, Ministry of Civil Affairs and Communications of BiH, in accordance with legal procedure deprived Trifunovi? from BiH citizenship. Results of several months’ investigation as well as documentation that prove the conclusions will be submitted to the competent prosecutor’s office that will adopt decision on possible criminal charge and judicial prosecution against Darko Trifunovi?.
After a multi-ethnic and multi-religious group of Muslim, Christian and Jewish journalists from Bosnjaci.net Magazine criticized Darko Trifunovic for Srebrenica Genocide denial, he sent them threatening messages and labeled them as terrorists. For Srebrenica genocide victims, he stated: “I wish Mladic killed them all.” Soon after, Bosnjaci.net was brought down due to hack attack (known as Denial of Service attack) from sympathizers of Darko Trifunovic’s extremist ideology. Darko Trifunovic blamed Muslim, Christian and Jewish reporters for fabricating E-mail against him, however, as influential Srebrenica Genocide Blog reported, quote:
Contrary to Darko Trifunovic’s claims published at “Serbian Unity Congress” website in which he alleges that information against him was “fabricated,” the fact of the matter is that he was the author of an E-mail in which he stated: “I wish Mladic killed them all.” We got in touch with contributing authors Haris Djapic and Alan Jusufovic and asked them to provide “Full Header” copy of Darko Trifunovic’s E-mail. Then we compared IP# of that E-mail with IP# of several other E-mails in which Darko Trifunovic threatened to the New York based magazine. The IP# was the same. Due to confidentiality reasons, we will not release IP#; however, we have forwarded this information to Bosnjaci.net and requested inclusion of this information into FBI investigation of recent threatening E-mails coming from Darko Trifunovic (his E-mail is publicly listed at the Serbian Unity Congress web site).
The public should exercise caution in dealing with Darko Trifunovic, his extremist supporters and his published writings. Darko Trifunovic has been discredited by respected journalistic agencies in the past. According to the “Freedom of Speech in South East Europe:
Media Independence and Self-Regulation” (ISBN 978-954-9396-05-8) published by the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media, quote:
An exemplary manipulation article can also be found on p. 2 on March 9 entitled ‘Abuse of religion and faith’ by D. Majstorovic. It reports that Darko Trifunovic, portrayed as “leading Serb expert for international terrorism” from the Belgrade Security Faculty, in one of his recent “lectures beforemembers of the US Congress” stated that radical Islamists from all over the world, who have been assigned in all almost all European states upon order of the terrorist network Al Q’Aida, abuse religious facilities and use them for spreading their fundamentalist-like ideas.
Reportedly, Trifunovic also “warned that Kosovo and Metohija and BiH are unfortunately brimming with persons likeTalovic (Sulejman, 19-year old from BiH who killed 5 people at Salt Lake City recently) and Bektasevic (Mirsad, sentenced to 20 years prison term for planning terrorist attacks in BiH), mostly thanks to people from the top authority, who at some point inthe past brought the most brutal terrorists of the present time to these regions. Hereby he refers to “Haris Silajdzic”, aprominent Bosniak politician.
Although attributed to an “expert” thus fulfilling the formal requirements of the Press
Code, these absolutely wild speculations presented as “serious” information are an insult to logic first, Bosniaks second. (Sulejman Talovic was Bosnian American, but his crime was much the same as earlier Columbine crimes, or a subsequent massacre by a Korean American – work of teen angst. Confounding him, a wannabe terrorist Bektasevic, and bringing them in context with a legaland legitimate political representative is a sign of uttermalevolence and lack of elementary ethics).
For more, visit Darko Trifunovic Blog @ http://darko-trifunovic.blogspot.com