Her name was Nizama Hećimović. She was killed by the man with whom she had a child, an eight-month-old baby. Her name was Nizama, not Nevzeta, as the media in Serbia mistakenly reported. It was not even called "Instagram murder", as it is colloquially called, because her ex-partner directly broadcasted on this network how he was beaten and then killed with a firearm. Her name was Nizama. Her name means "order, regularity, order".
Nizama Hećimović was murdered on August 11 in front of 20.000 witnesses. So many people watched live as her ex-partner killed her with a gun. There are even more of them because the clip was removed from Instagram, published on social networks, shared in Viber groups. I didn't watch it. I only know about the video what I've seen others write. I know she was beaten. And I know that when asked by her killer why she reported him to the police, she said: "I was afraid for myself and the child." Those, it seems, were her last words.
Her killer's name was Nermin Sulejmanović. She reported him several times for domestic violence, the last time three days before the murder. The family has a court decision denying Nizami police protection. When that happened, she fled to her aunt's cottage, where she hid for seven days. On the eighth day, Nermin received a tip, most likely from the police, about Nizama's whereabouts. He came, beat and killed. He also shot at her aunt, whose son he wounded. Nizam's aunt told reporters these days that it took the police 20 minutes to arrive, even though they were only one kilometer away from her cottage.
Sulejmanović then killed two more people: a father and son, Turkish citizens who had previously reported him to the police. He seriously wounded their wife and mother and she is still in intensive care. He killed three people and wounded three more, and started with Nizama, reportedly furious that she had reported him to the police. After the murder, he went live on Instagram several more times and those videos are still circulating on the networks.
WHO ARE YOU?, PEOPLE, AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?
A lot could have been done to prevent Nizam's murder. But the fact remains that her death was watched by tens of thousands of people live on Instagram, and that later, when the killer re-engaged, they had questions for him, such as: "What are you planning now?", which is also a question to which he answered in one of the inclusions.
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Viewers of the murder left comments, and yes, most of those comments were either condemning or people appealed to Sulejmanović to calm down, to stop beating her, to put down the weapon... But there were, and not a few, supportive comments as well. They are still there today, almost a week after Nizami's death. They watched her die, and now they are judging her. They downloaded the video of her murder and distributed it further. She is on trial because she was going back to him, because she had a child with a troubled man who has a criminal past. They are judging her because "who knows what she provoked him with". It is Nizama Hećimović's fault that she was alive, and it is also her fault that she was killed. For the viewers of her murder, she is not a human being but a sensation.
Like I said, I got the recording. He was followed by a message: "Whoa, what did I see, I can't calm down." I already knew what was on the video, and the person who sent it to me received it via Viber with the message: "Do you want to see that fool who recorded him killing a woman?" The person who forwarded the video to me responded with: "Give it!"
I've been thinking about that "give!" for days. What is given here, what do we need so much in that video to shout: "Give it!" Give me a shock, give me a party? Let me see how someone else has it worse than me? Let me watch it, then cry after "poor woman", to feel like a better person because I feel sorry for the murdered woman?
Let us study and analyze it, to see who is more guilty, the executioner or the victim. Because there are not a few people who condemn the victim these days. And she was only afraid for herself and the child.
On the other hand, those who watched and got upset, continued to share further, and this raises new questions. What drives people to send others a video that upset them? What's in it for more people to get upset? What does he want from those who were sent a video of the cold-blooded execution of an innocent woman? Comfort? Shall I console you for clicking on horror and spreading it further? He won't be able to.
But it is a mistake to blame only individuals. The video was shared by various organizations and "organizations" such as Leviathan and others... On Pink Television, the entire video was not broadcast, only a part, but the host Jovana Jeremić recounted it in such detail that it might be better if they just played it in its entirety. Maybe someone would miss a detail. This way, when Jovana Jeremić roars and throws herself around the studio, it is impossible not to hear her and remember what she is shouting. Emphasizing that "people who haven't seen it must know", he lists all the disturbing details. I don't need to know anything about what's on the video. It is enough for me to know that another woman was killed by her partner and that this murder could have been prevented. And it would have been prevented only if Nizami in the police believed that she was afraid for herself and the child, only if they had not been "joined" with her killer and if the same police had not informed him where she was hiding. If it were not for the system of brothers and sisters in these areas where criminals and policemen are friends, Nizama would be alive. If the policemen, criminals, prosecutors, judges here did not share similar beliefs, she would be alive. Because, let's not fool ourselves that the one who informed Sulejmanović where she was thought he was going to talk to her. No, he believed the same as he did: that she was his property, that a "whore" had rebelled and that she should get "what she deserved".
THE SYSTEM NOW CONFESSES SINS
The Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sevlid Hurtić, said that in the case of the triple murder and wounding of two more people in Gradačac on Friday, the entire system failed, stressing that it is therefore necessary to pass a law on better protection of women from abusers and their care.
During a visit to the non-governmental organization Viva žene in Tuzla, he said that there are indications that the perpetrator Nermin Sulejmanović, who committed suicide after the crime, received a tip from the security authorities about the whereabouts of his unmarried wife who escaped from his violence. It is not just one person being talked about, it is being talked about several people, and there is even a version that others, not only from the security services, communicated with him, Hurtić pointed out.
He added that now the security services are also checking the killer's telephone experts, in order to find out who talked to him in the period before the murder.
Nizama was buried on Monday, August 14. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the day of mourning will most likely be on Wednesday. But only in the Federation, because Bosnia and Herzegovina will not declare a single day of mourning for the triple murder in Gradačac. This was decided on Monday at the telephone session of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"There was no national quorum because no minister from among the Serbian people participated in the vote," BiH Minister of Transport and Communications Edin Forto, who is one of the initiators of declaring a day of mourning at the state level, told Radio Free Europe. While Nizama Hećimović was being buried, members of the Council of Ministers from Republika Srpska did not vote.
Paradoxically, Republika Srpska did declare a day of mourning, for which it chose the same day as the Federation of BiH: Wednesday, August 16. But it seems that it is very important for them not to agree on anything with the rest of the Council of Ministers. It seems that even the innocent dead are a reason for petty political fights.
Allegedly, someone in the system will be held accountable because the murder of Nizama Hećirović could have been prevented. Her killer will not answer because he committed suicide. Some media reported that he "judged himself". He did not judge, he avoided responsibility. In this and such a climate, it is hard to believe that anyone will really bear this responsibility. The murder of Nizam and two Turkish citizens will most likely be declared as someone's negligence. Just like that, whoever does that makes a mistake, and now if someone gets shot in the head because of a mistake, my God, that's just another woman who should have been careful who she messes with... But who's next?
