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FACING THE PAST
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 terror campaign in and its stranglehold on Sandzak in the early
90's, and especially, during... |
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BALKANS' IDOLATRY DELIGHTS
MOVIE FANS AND PIGEONS
New York Times, November 11, 2007
By Dan Bilefsky |
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ZITISTE, Serbia - In this
sleepy farming village, residents talk of a new spirit of exaltation ever since a towering
bronze and concrete statue of Rocky Balboa was erected in the village square, his boxing
gloves raised in a heroic gesture of triumph. But Rocky... |
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SESELJ CASE
YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND HELSINKI COMMITTEE COORDINATED
FLYER HANDOUT ON BELGRADE STREETS
In front of the Philosophy Faculty,
at the "Plato"
17th January 2008. |
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Starting in 1991 and
continuing into 1999, 2002 and 2003 statements by leaders of the Radical Party, Vojislav
Seselj and Tomislav Nikolic, have been extremely militant, chauvinistic and
war-mongering... |
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DJINDJIC CASE
PROPOSAL FOR SUPPLEMENTING OF EVIDENCE PRESENTATION PROCEEDINGS
08/28/2007 , Srda Popovic |
Attorney of family
Đinđić, Srđa Popović, before the Trial Chamber conducting the proceedings against
indictees for assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić (12 March 2003) on 23
February 2007 submitted two important proposals: the proposal |
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for expansion of
indictment and the proposal for supplementing of evidence presentation proceedings. Nata
Mesarević, the judge presiding the Trial Chamber, turned down those proposals in late
March. Regardless of the foregoing, the Helsinki Charter is running them in their
entirety, deeming both intitiatives to be of a broader social importance for they are
highly indicative of the political ambience in which the assassination had taken place.
After finalisation of the first-degree trial conducted by the Special Department of... |
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THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
CARLA DEPARTS. FINALLY
William Montgomery
6 January 2008
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
has a solid list of accomplishments. There are many genuine war criminals who are either
serving well-deserved sentences or awaiting trial. The massive amount of documentation
made available in the indictments, judgments and trials themselves have helped to create
an invaluable base of information of the terrible events of those years. Some of the
evidence which has surfaced, such as the videotape of Milosevic; greeting members of the
Red Berets for their clandestine services in Bosnia and Croatia, for example, is
priceless. At the same time, the ICTY has fallen short... |
BOSNIA
THE SERBIAN ELITES AND GENOCIDE
IN BOSNIA
By Sonja Biserko
HCHRS
Ever since the foundation of the modern Serbian state in the 19th
century, but especially since the Congress of Berlin, Serbia's elites have viewed Bosnia
as a territory which could solve all their frustrations over borders. It was, namely, at
that time that they set the goal of gaining access to the sea and expanding living space,
something that could only be had at Bosnia's expense. The idea was that this 'must be
solved by force' because without a sea Serbia was 'without economic breath, without
lungs'. When later the southern Slav peoples united in one state - Yugoslavia - the
objectives of the Serbian... |
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CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND COUNTER - TERRORISM IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
Ljubljana 20-21 April 2007
Bosnian Approach in the Fight Against Terrorism
Edina Becirevic - Faculty of Criminal Justice Science, University of
Sarajevo
Bosnia's attitude towards the fight against terrorism cannot be
assessed without establishing a link between local and global perspectives first. One
could say that this is generally the case with the fight against terrorism; however, in
the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this local-global link is additionally emphasized. In
this paper I am going to elaborate factors that have influenced Bosnia's approach to the
fight against terrorism. Considering that for a long time Bosnia was a victim of a
stereotyped... |
MILOSEVIC CASE
CONFERENCE "LEGACY OF THE
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TRIAL"
Belgrade, March 31, 2007
04/12/2007 , HCHRS
The Helsinki Committee focused the first out of six sessions dealing
with key issues of the recent past - planned under the project realized with the
assistance of the Fund for an Open Society - on the most important process conducted
before the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia: the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic. By opting to open the series with "the Milosevic case" the Committee
had in mind that regardless of the fact that sentence in the first instance was not passed
the trial's legal and political implications were much too important to be sidelined from
public discourse... |
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