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Helsinki Charter No. 139-140

May - June 2010

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NO BALKAN MOSAIC CAN BE COMPLETE WITHOUT BOSNIA

By Sonja Biserko

The Srebrenica genocide is and will remain an enduring trauma for all generations in Serbia, both present and future. Each new judgment passed by the Hague tribunal reveals new details and lays bare the enormity of the crime. Although 15 years have passed since the atrocity, social consciousness in Serbia remains largely unchanged. Criticism of selective memory as a prerequisite for reconciliation has been blocked by organized amnesia and relativization. Notwithstanding the Declaration...   More >>>

 

After Conviction in the Srebrenica Seven Trial

EVIDENCE OF GENOCIDE

By Bojana Oprijan Ilic

"The scope and the nature of the operation of killing resulting in an astounding number of deaths, the systematic and organized manner in which it was carried out, targeting and relentless persecution of victims and indisputable intention - submitted in evidence - to eliminate every male Bosnian Muslim, who was either arrested or surrendered himself, testify of genocide prove beyond any doubt." That was how presiding judge Carmel...   More >>>

 

THE DEAD SET A STATE BORDER IN CEMENT

By Tamara Kaliterna

Three years ago, at the day of the season when people care about leaves and care about the health of children unknown to them, while marking the World Environmental Day, international forensic experts started digging at the location the witnesses from Kosovo identified as the 17th mass grave of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia. All they found were scattered pieces of clothing and footwear. Four days later, dredgers of many colors left the forsaken quarry nearby Rudnica, some hundred meters away from the Raska-Kosovska Mitrovica highway, at the "administrative" border...   More >>>

 

National Minority Councils Elected

MINORITIES MORE RELIABLE THAN THE STATE

By Pavel Domonji

In early June 2010, members of Serbia's minority communities finally went to the polls to cast a ballot for their national councils. Out of 19 minority councils, 16 were elected directly and three at electoral assemblies. New elections will be called for only one minority council: a sufficient number of electors did not attend the electoral assembly for the Macedonian National Council. According to available information, more than one half of registered voters turned at the polls (237,792 out of 436,334 persons). Minister of Human and Minority...   More >>>

 

Regional Prospects after the Summit Conferences at Brdo and Sarajevo

EUROPEAN PRAGMATISM IN THE BALKANS

By Davor Gjenero

To all appearances, the effects of the referendum on ratification of the arbitration agreement on demarcation between Slovenia and Croatia, held in Slovenia on June 6, 2010, will benefit more the process of Western Balkans consolidation than the effects of the EU Ministerial Conference in Sarajevo of June 2. All the Sarajevo Summit attained was due to the "Gymnich format," a model for informal meetings of foreign ministers of EU member-states displaying no national symbols or official functions of the participants and as such...   More >>>

 

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