Zločin bez kazne
The Unpunished Crime

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper lays a foundation of a new horizon for the interpretation of Šahovići Pogrom - the murder of hundreds of Muslim civilians in Šahovići in 1924 as the "non-criminal putting to death”, by deconstructing the determination of this event. The Kosovo myth strongly permeating the poem "The Collapse of the Serbian Kingdom," as the essential (ir)rational reflexive determination of the Serbian national identity, implies the onto-logical categorical structure which has established the Kosovo myth as a "hymn to genocide" of the Serbian people. Within the modern Serbian national consciousness, the Christianized mythical-poetic signification of "sacrificing" the "earthly kingdom" at Kosovo (non-being), in favor of the "Heavenly kingdom" (Being) has made the Serbian "heavenly people" national emancipation inextricably linked to the expulsion of neighbors and torching their houses and exterminating of everything that is Muslim (Turkish) from the holy Serbian lands ("Second coming of Christ"), which has been lasting from the Serbian uprisings to the present date.

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