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HELSINKI FILES No. 29

Sandzak and European Prospects

Sandzak and European Prospects is a publication stemming from the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests" realized in 2009-2010 with the assistance of the Delegation of the European Union - EIDHR. The Helsinki... More >>>

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

THE YEAR WHEN SERBIA CHARTED ITS
EUROPEAN COURSE

Europeanization - Accomplishments and Limitations

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This is the tenth in a row annual report of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia scrutinizing the overall political... More >>>

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 67

MEDIA IN SERBIA: LOST AND LOBBYING FOR THE STATUS QUO

August 2010

Serbia's media scene is merely a reflection of society's loss of bearings and moral devastation. This is especially so because, like all other national institutions, the media gave full support to the national projects embodied by Slobodan Miloševia at the end of the twentieth century. Above all, the media's weakness is seen in its attitude to the past, which is similar or identical to that of most political players, as well as in its attitude to the...
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GANIC CASE

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The Lawyer (U.K.)

THE HIGH COST OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED EXTRADITION CASES

Stephen Gentle, partner, Kingsley Napley

16 August 2010

"Politics not justice" was how Lord Ashdown characterised the attempt by Serbia to extradite Ejup Ganic, the former vice president of Bosnia, a victim of Serbia's wars of aggression in the early 1990s.

After his arrest, Ganic spent 10 days in... More >>>

SREBRENICA

REMEMBERING THE 1995 SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

Senadin Lavic

At the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo on July 8, 2010, BZK "Preporod" ("Renaissance") organized a lecture on remembering the Srebrenica genocide 1995-2010. The speakers that evening were the president of BZK "Preporod" Senadin Lavic and professors Edina Becirevic, Cazim Sadikovic, Šacir Filandra, Asim Mujkic and Dino Abazovic.

Fifteen years have passed since July 1995 in Srebrenica. Many...
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HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL FOR YOUTH

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

Kovacica, July 2010

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a Human Rights School for Youth (The School) between July 11 and July 19, 2010 at hotel Relax in Kovacica. Both levels of The School (Basic and Advanced level) were held at the same time, but with separate programmes and lectures. Forty scholars who were chosen from 80 applicants, came to Kovacica from secondary... More >>>

SANDZAK AND EUROPEAN PROSPECTS

Press conference of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

On July 16, 2010 the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia held a press conference that rounded off the project "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests" realized in 2009-2010 with the assistance of the Delegation of the... MS Word (33kb) >>>

HELSINKI CHARTER

Helsinki Charter No. 139-140

May - June 2010

This issue of the Helsinki Charter has been financed by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights

Contents:

NO BALKAN MOSAIC CAN BE COMPLETE WITHOUT BOSNIA

By Sonja Biserko

After Conviction in the Srebrenica Seven Trial

EVIDENCE OF GENOCIDE

By Bojana Oprijan Ilic

THE DEAD SET A STATE BORDER IN CEMENT

By Tamara Kaliterna

National Minority Councils Elected

MINORITIES MORE RELIABLE THAN THE...

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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 find a

productive answer to its decade-long identity crisis. Th e current, excessively pronounced ethnic profi ling of community...

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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, the assassination of (Serbian prime...

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SREBRENICA SURVIVOR GIVES GLIMPSE OF ENCLAVE'S DEFENCES

Details emerge from Tolimir's two-day cross examination of a witness who survived a mass execution.

By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 640, 26-Mar-10)

Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, on trial for war...

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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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