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RESTITUTION LAW AND
HISTORICAL FACTS
Press Release
11/07/2006 , HCHRS
Addressing the Jerusalem-based Council for International Relations
during his official visit to Israel, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic said the
atrocities Serbs, Jews and Roma had gone through in “Croatian Nazi concentration
camps of Jasenovac and Gradiska outdistanced those of Auschwitz, Mauthasen and
Treblinka” and announced that the property confiscated from Jews after World War II
would be returned once the Restitution Law was adopted. “Crimes should not be
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SERBIA - CONSTITUTIONAL
REFERENDUM RESULTS OBTAINED ONLY UNDER SEVERE GOVERNMENT PRESSURE
Press Release
11/01/2006 , HCHRS
Belgrade, Vienna, 31 October 2006. The International Helsinki
Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and non-governmental organizations in Serbia, including
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, the Committee of Lawyers for Human
Rights and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights are deeply concerned about reported
irregularities in the conduct of the referendum on the new Constitution. The results of... |
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RATKO MLADIC ON A GIFT POSTER
Open Letter
09/26/2006 , HCHRS
The gift poster the Glas Javnosti daily offered to its readership in
the issue of Monday, September 25, 2006, opens up some serious questions for which the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and the Lawyers’ Committee for Human
Rights demands answers and explanation from the police, the Army of Serbia and the
National Council for the Cooperation with The Hague Tribunal. Firstly, how was it possible
that an “anonymous” civilian freely flaunts the poster with a life - size
picture of the most... |
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL RADICALIZATION IN
NOVI PAZAR
Press Release
09/12/2006 , HCHRS
Expressing its deep regret for the murder of Ruzdija Djurovic, the List
for Sandzak’s candidate for councilman, and wounding of Sulejman Djurovic, which took
place during local elections in Novi Pazar, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
Serbia strongly condemns any use of violence in a political process. Concerned over
aggravation of political circumstances in Sandzak, the Committee appeals to all political
actors... |
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ELEVEN YEARS SINCE SREBRENICA MASSACRE
Press Release by 17 NGO's and
Other Organizations
07/06/2006 , HCHRS
We remind that this July 11 it will be 11 years since the most gruesome
crime in Europe after the World War II, the international tribunal clearly called
genocide, has been committed in Srebrenica. We remind that those most responsible for this
history’s scorching shame are still at large and still considered national heroes by
many. We remind that Serbia – as long as the indicted for the Srebrenica massacre are
not... |
BIA REPORT POLITICALLY DANGEROUS
Press Release
06/21/2006 , HCHRS
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia is deeply concerned
with Director of the Security - Information Agency /BIA/ Rade Bulatovic’s report to
the Serbian parliamentary Security Committee, indicating Vojvodina as the area of
“high security risk” and, therefore, requests Mr. Bulatovic to inform the
general public, that in Vojvodina in particular, about the grounds on which he has drawn
such conclusion. Mr. Bulatovic’s statement that extremists from the ranks of national
minorities “misuse the ongoing... |
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POLITICAL OPPONENTS TARGETS OF ASSAULT AGAIN
Press Release
05/17/2006 , HCHRS
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia reiterates its deep
concern with the fact that the people holding views different from the predominant
mainstream are more and more frequent targets of assault in Serbia. The house of the
outstanding author and expert in religious matters, Mirko Djordjevic, was stoned only a
day after he guested a TV show during which he nothing but spoke out his personal
positions on the deeds of Nikolaj Velimirovic... |
NIN WEEKLY: ORCHESTRATED CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANY DISSONANT VOICE
Latinka Perovic, the Most Influential Woman in Serbia
04/19/2006 , HCHRS
“The ‘alternative Serbia’ is the topic that calls for
clarification and can be tackled from different angles. NIN has investigated for weeks the
public (or less public) activity and political heritage of Latinka Perovic seen by many as
an icon and ideologist of the ‘alternative Serbia.’ To write the article to be
carried in two installments, the author has interviewed ten-odd figures and read piles of
written material. NIN has decided against... |
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STOP THE POLICE TORTURE
Press release
03/21/2006 , HCHRS
On Wednesday, March 15, 2006, several policemen from the Kikinda police
station were suspected of having so brutally beaten up the 28-year-old Mihalj Koloncaj,
the town’s resident, that his spleen had to be removed. In October 2004, after a
police patrol from the same station intervened, policeman Sasa Mijin was suspected of
having fatally injured his townsman Zdravko Trivan. Criminal proceedings against the
accused were... |
SERBIA HAS NOT BROKEN WITH
MILOSEVIC YET
Press release
03/16/2006 , HCHRS
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia takes that numerous
factors at Serbia’s political scene have seized Slobodan Milosevic’s death as
the most welcome opportunity not only to continue denying any responsibility for the
policy he had pursued over his 13-year rule, but also to call to account everyone other
than the masterminds and executioners of this... |
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