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44 NGOs AGAINST
LEGITIMIZATION OF VIOLENCE
Forty-four non-governmental organizations strongly condemn the last in
the series of impermissible statements by Minister for Infrastructure Velimir Ilic,
whereby he directly and openly instigates violence against political opponents, in the
first place against the Liberal Democratic Party. On February 27, 2008 Minister Ilic said
that the regime could not protect the people "advocating that Kosovo belongs not to
us from being beaten up by someone who comes from Kosovo." His statement was actually
a call for the lynch of all individuals who think differently. We underline that in the
entire history of Serbia no official has ever so overtly urged violence against political
opponents. Not even has... |
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENTS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER
YUGOSLAVIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
A year ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its verdict
in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Serbia, acquitting Serbia of direct
involvement in genocide in Bosnia. We, members of the international academic community,
believe that this decision - reached without a review of all the available evidence -
amounts to a miscarriage of justice and a betrayal of the principle that international
criminal law should act to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. The ICJ refused to
subpoena Serbia to hand over the uncensored... |
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AN OPEN LETTER OF 18 NGOs TO PRESIDENT OF SERBIA BORIS TADIC AND
FOREIGN MINISTER VUK JEREMIC
25. February 2008, HCHRS |
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18 NGOs strongly protest
against inadequate comment of the Russian state television which in its extraordinary
program "News Plus" labels the late Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic "the
puppet of the West" and that "he merits the bullet". The Russian government
is obliged to provide an explanation of this scandalous comment of the state television.
On the contrary, it would leave an impression that the Russian government support such an
interpretation of an assassination of the... |
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APPEAL TO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BORIS TADIC
28. January 2008. |
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Securing membership of the EU
is the only way to assure the democratization of Serbia and a democratic future for the
country... |
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LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE
EU MEMBER STATES
Belgrade, 18 January 2008 |
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Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, welcome the latest efforts of the
majority of the EU member states, |
and particularly
of Slovenia, acting as a president of the European Union, aimed at acceleration of
Serbia's rapprochement to the EU by signing the SAA agreement. We strongly believe that at
the present state of affairs this approach is the only course of action that stands a
chance of keeping European prospects for Serbia open and preventing non- and
quasi-democratic forces from once again isolating the country... |
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STOP EXTREMISTS UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE!
Press release
07/26/2007 , HCHRS |
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"Civic
Vojvodina" demands the relevant state institutions to identify and adequately punish
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perpetrators of
the last night's brutal assault against the activists of the "All Different - All
Equal" campaign organized within the Exit Festival with the assistance of the
Council of Europe. "Civic Vojvodina" takes that the assault was not accidental
but deliberately aimed at compromising the Exit festival. Having used up other
"methods" for compromising the Exit, right-wing extremists, xenophobes and
ultra-nationalists resorted to their favorite form of "combat" - violence. We
demand the police to identify... |
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DISHONEST MANIPULATION
Press release
07/09/2007 , HCHRS |
Dusan Mihajlovic, the
police minister in the Zoran Djindjic cabinet, has been misusing these days the name of
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia in its capacity as the publisher of the
book "Testimony of Vladimir Popovic before |
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the Special Court
at the Djindjic Assassination Trial." Namely, while defending himself from
allegations by other actors of the developments preceding the murder of Premier Zoran
Djindjic, Mihajlovic has been referring to the book to justify... |
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JOURNALIST DEJAN ANASTASIJEVIC TARGET OF LYNCH ATMOSPHERE
Press release
04/16/2007 , HCHRS |
The assassination attempt
at journalist Dejan Anastasijevic in the night of April 14 is by far more indicative than
yet another in the series of terrorist |
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attacks against
the freedom of expression. For, this time the target was a brave journalist who has not
only authentically reported the trial of the murders of the allegedly para-military
Scorpions formation, but also taken the stand at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The
Hague. Dejan Anastasijevic was obviously another stumbling block in the way of
interpreting ex-Yugoslav wars by... |
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THE LETTER FROM FOUR
SERBIAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANISATIONS TO EU
04/06/2007 , HCHRS
Serbia is again on the political agenda of both the EU and the
international community and its institutions. This time because of the Kosovo Status. The
international community is in a process of searching for the mechanism that could bring
Serbia to constrictive attitude within this process and to open an avenue for her
integration in the European processes, including the resumption of the talks on SAA
between the EU and Serbia, even before Serbia has fulfilled its obligations towards the
ICTY. However, bringing Serbia closer to the EU... |
SHAMELESS RIDICULE OF GENOCIDE
Press release
03/14/2007 , HCHRS
By publishing a special supplement to its issue of March 12, 2007,
titled “The Identity Card of Srebrenica,” the newsroom of the Belgrade-seated
Glas Javnosti daily wanted, as it put it, to bring before its readership “an
interesting study by Mr. Milivoj Ivanisevic that may stand for argumentation in the event
the Serbian parliament deliberates a declaration /on Srebrenica/” and thus at the
same time respond to “political advocates of all sorts of guilt that are being
ascribed to Serbia.” The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia reminds that
the... |
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