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PSYCHOTIC SERBO-PHILIA

Ed Vulliamy

Published in Dani, issue 664,
March 5th, 2010.

On the very day we have to listen to Radovan Karadzic - who rightly regarded the British government as a friend during the years 1992-95 - deliver his demented justifi...   More >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helsinki Charter No. 135-136

January - February 2010

HOW TO PREVENT DISINTEGRATION OF SOCIAL TISSUE

By Sonja Biserko

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WHAT LIES BEHIND THE ARREST OF EJUP GANIC

Branka Magaš, Bosnian Institute

5 March, 2010

The London arrest of a Bosnian wartime leader heralds a new phase in Serbia's unrelenting aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina, in which the British authorities have now made themselves unwitting pawns. A member of Bosnia's war-time presidency, who...
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THE TRIAL AND THE WALL

Goran Fejic

6 November 2009

The celebration of Europe's "velvet revolutions" is an appropriate time to recall that what happened in Srebrenica is also part of Europe's post-1989 history, says G. Fejic.

When they arrested Radovan K he knew that the times had changed. They did not arrest him because of...   More >>>

 

 

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 58

RESOLUTION ON SREBRENICA:
DEBATE OPENED, NOTWITHSTANDING

February 2010

President Tadic's initiative for a parliamentary resolution on Srebrenica triggered off a debate that laid bare the proportions of Serbia's frustration manifested in its denial to face up the recent past, the Bosnian war in particular. The existence of Republika Srpska /RS/ - actually the very...
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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SMUGGLED ARMS,
CLAIMS KARADZIC

Former Bosnian Serb leader demands documents he says will prove UN members funneled weapons to Bosnian army.

By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 635, 19-Feb-10)

Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic this week demanded that several countries turn over documents which he claims will prove they were illegally...    MS Word (32kb) >>>

 

 

SONJA BISERKO GETS A HIGH DECORATION

February 1, 2010

On February 1, 2010 Chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia received a high decoration from President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesic for her outstanding contribution to the promotion of human and civil rights, rights of minorities in particular, and for contributing to normalization of Serbia-Croatia relations. President Mesic pointed out that Ms. Biserko had been among the first to condemn the...   More >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATION ::: HELSINKI FILES

HELSINKI FILES No. 28

Sandzak: identity and recent past

Sonja Biserko

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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights views the issue of identity of political community as a key one in the context of mapping out the future of Serbia. In parallel with its bid to become an integral part of the European Union, Serbia must also fi nd a productive answer to its

decade-long identity crisis. Th e current, excessively pronounced ethnic profi ling of community identity entails a host of...

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REPORTS

HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY
AND - VIOLENCE

Serbia 2008

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The trend of institutional disintegration continued in 2008 in parallel with economic standstill, all of which negatively affected citizens' mood. The pro-European coalition that won the spring 2008 election failed to meet their expectations as it was

not politically courageous enough to make a breakthrough in fundamental reforms. In the meantime Serbia, like all other countries in...

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PUBLICATION ::: CHRONICLES

CHRONICLES 33

Conflict in Numbers

Edited by Ewa Tabeau

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Casualties of the 1990s Wars in the Former Yugoslavia (1991-1999)

The chronologically earliest demographic expert report appeared in a court hearing at ICTY in June 2000. The report was related to the missing persons

from the fall of Srebrenica in 1995 and presented in the General KRSTIC case (IT-98-33). It was authored by two...

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THE SERBIAN NATIONALISTS ARE INTERESTED NOT IN KOSOVO BUT IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Author: Sonja Biserko, interviewed by Dani

Uploaded: Thursday, 23 October, 2008

Extensive interview with the president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, in the context of the recent violent witch-hunt against the Committee and herself in the Serbian media. The ongoing campaign being waged against the president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Sonja Biserko, by the Serbian patriotic media, journalists, writers and intellectuals would indeed be incomplete had not Milorad Ulemak Legija joined in with a letter from the Central Prison. Condemned for the abduction and murder of (former Serbian president] Ivan Stambolic...

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BRIEFLY NOTED: BRAMMERTZ SLAMS SERBIAN TRIBUNAL COOPERATION

Chief prosecutor said there has been no notable progress in delivering remaining suspects to Hague.

By Simon Jennings in The Hague

Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz criticised Serbian cooperation with the...

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Srebrenica and the London Bombings

THE 'ANTI-WAR' LINK

By Marko Attila Hoare
23rd July 2005

At Srebrenica on 11 July 1995, Christian Serb fascists - Chetniks - massacred about eight thousand Muslim men and boys. A few days before the tenth anniversary of the massacre...

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COURT TOLD WITNESS LEFT VILLAGE AFTER SESELJ SPEECH

Hague tribunal hears how Croatian in Serb village of Hrtkovci feared becoming a target.

By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 635, 19-Feb-10)

A witness told judges at The Hague tribunal this week that...

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HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOLS

www.humanrightschools.org

Children are not born xenophobic, intolerant of others and those considered different, children are not born as...

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THE TRIAL AND THE WALL

The celebration of Europe's "velvet revolutions" is an appropriate time to recall that what happened in Srebrenica is also part of Europe's post-1989 history, says Goran Fejic.

Goran Fejic, 6 November 2009

When they arrested Radovan K he knew that the times had changed. They did not arrest...

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