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OPENING A DIALOGUE ON THE
RECENT PAST 'WITHIN' THE SERBIAN SOCIETY
MC press center
5 February 2008, HCHRS |
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SANDŽAK:
CONSEQUENCES OF REPRESSIVE STATE POLICY
Panel Discussion
Belgrade, 2 November 2007
Sonja Biserko |
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We think that it is very
important to discuss the situation in Sandzak at this moment of time, for Sandzak seems
one of the potentially most vulnerable spots, in view of a continuing, deep political and
social crisis in Serbia. |
This is primarily
due to the fact that Sandžak made part of Bosnia-related war progam. Such a thesis is
confirmed by the state... |
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PANEL: LEGACY OF MILOSEVIC TRIAL
Geoffrey Nice Statement
31 March 2007
Some 13 months before Milosevic died I started drafting the closing
argument. This, in edited form, may have appeared in the final version. It reads: "As
the Defense case advanced it may have been possible to mark out the relevant background
material from the irrelevant history over which no Trial Chamber here should attempt to
judge. The Prosecution's view was often not at odds with Defense witnesses as to which
events were significant, even if we did not agree as to the interpretation of those
events. The Prosecution argues for detailed examination to start no earlier than in 1966
with the removal of Rankovic or with the reforms of 1968 to 1971 leading to the
Constitution of 1974. After all, it may be thought, events... |
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: A PART OF THE SERBIAN NATIONAL PROJECT
07/09/2007
Historians Latinka Perovic and Olivera Milosavljevic told today's
conference "Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Part of the Serbian National Project" -
organized by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia - that Serbia's
nationalistic elites still strongly aspire to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Such aspirations, as
they put it, considerably jeopardize Bosnia's society. For her part, Sonja Biserko,
chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, suggested a revision of
the Dayton Peace Accords. Sonja Biserko underlines that the issue of Bosnia-Herzegovina is
crucial for all future processes in the Balkans, which is why the international community
should take a more responsible and by far more... |
