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BERNARD-HENRI LEVY,
FRENCH
PHILOSOPHER
AND WRITER |
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When Angelina Jolie asked me to join her in presenting the
avant-premiere of her film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, I
began, of course, by asking to view it. But once I had, I did
not hesitate for a second. Because, really, what a story! Here
is a great
Hollywood...
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EMERGING FROM THE
MARGINS
Constructing creative and useful
approaches to both former Ottoman peripheries - the Balkans and
the Middle East - requires shedding tattered notions of Western
"leadership" and recognizing opportunities inherent in the
acknowledgement of one's own limits.
By David B. Kanin |
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DANIEL SERWER
Interviewed by
Snezana
Congradin,
Matja
Stojanovic
June 2011 |
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Helsinki Charter: In your
opinion, the EU should not help Boris Tadic and his Democratic Party win the next
elections, due soon. You also said that the EU should take a
firmer stance, continue its policy of...
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SONJA BISERKO
DECLARED HONORARY
CITIZEN OF SARAJEVO
Sarajevo, April 6, 2011 |
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At
the ceremony marking the Day of Sarajevo Major Alija Behman
conferred "Honorary Citizen" Award on Sonja Biserko, chairwoman of
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. The City Council
decision of the award, read out last evening in the National
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A NEW STRATEGY FOR
THE CIVIL
SOCIETY
Sonja Biserko,
Miljenko Dereta
Belgrade, February 2011
The dead end Serbia is facing once more is
grounds for serious concern,
primarily in terms of maintaining the achieved minimum of
democratization, as well as
regarding the continuation of the politics of EU accession. The unexpectedly long lasting
economic crisis has revealed all weaknesses - political, economic and social with regards
to the...
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ACTIVIST RECEIVES NORWEGIAN AWARD
The Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Serbia presented Sonja
Biserko with the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Award.
Belgrade, Tanjug,
9 November 2010 |
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THE BALKANS CAN STILL
BE LOST
By Soren Jessen-
Petersen and Daniel Serwer
The New York Times,
10 November, 2010
As NATO, the United
States, the European Union and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe prepare for summit meetings this fall, the Balkans may
yet spoil the party. The peace-building process there boasts remarkable successes -
the
end of the Bosnian war, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and the rise of...
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YUGOSLAV PARTISANS
SAVED 795 ALLIED
AIRMEN IN
WORLD WAR II
By Yahalom Kashny
3 November , 2010
Operation Halyard was one of the largest Allied airlift operation
behind enemy lines of World War II. The Yugoslav Partisans played
a major role in saving
downed Allied airmen. Serbian nationalists often claim that Chetniks saved over 500 downed
airmed, but that figure is simply wrong. According to statistics compiled by the US Air
Force Air Crew Rescue Unit, between 1...
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http://greatersurbiton.
wordpress.com/2010/09/24/
the-chetniks-and-the-jews/
THE CHETNIKS
AND
THE JEWS
By Marko Attila Hoare
24 September 2010
Last week, the Serbian
daily Blic published another contribution to the
long-
running efforts of anti-
Communist Serb nationalists to rehabilitate the
Nazi-collaborationalist Serbian Chetnik movement of World War II. Such efforts represent
an affront to the Serbian anti-fascist
heritage and to all those...
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REHABILITATION OF
DRAZA MIHAILOVIC
REVISES HISTORY
Press release
20 September, 2010
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia warns that a judicial
rehabilitation of Draza Mihailovic would equal a revision of the World War II and Serbia's
attitude towards anti-fascism. It would not only politically revaluate collaborationism of
the Tchetnik movement but also further promote the Greater Serbia project this movement
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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.
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NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE
SPEECH
Barack Obama
10. december 2009.
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,
Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of
America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is
an award that speaks to our highest aspirations - that for all the
cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of
fate. Our actions matter, and can...
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EUROPEANISING A
RELUCTANT LEARNER?
European identity in the EU's representations
of Serbia
A.G.M.J. Rongen
Amsterdam, 1 October 2009
Identity politics have long been a domain that
mainly drew the attention of sociologists or
anthropologists,
remaining
a rather peripheral area of scholarship to political
scientists. Nevertheless, since the rise of constructivism in the
latter discipline, identity has been established as an object...
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SCANDALOUS ROW OVER NUMBER OF VICTIMS
Author, Vuk Bakanovic
"Dani", 23 October 2009
On 17 October on premises of the Evropa hotel in
Sarajevo, a promotion of
the book War in numbers: Demographic losses
in
wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia 1991-
1999, edited by
Ewa Tabeau and published by Serbia Helsinki Committee, took place.
It is mostly
about main reports by demographic experts, who were
engaged by the prosecution in trials...
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OPEN LETTER To Noam Chomsky and Amnesty International (AI) On the
occasion of the Annual Amnesty International Lecture being given
today, Friday, in Belfast
YOU ARE A GENOCIDE
DENIER, PROFESSOR
CHOMSKY!
Göttingen/Belfast,
30 October 2009
Dear Professor Chomsky,
Dear Friends of Amnesty International,
Once again you find yourself invited to appear...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/
Interview_With_Historian_
Tony_Judt_Dreaming_About_
Washington_Is_One_Of_East_
Europes_Great_Mistakes/
1841206.html
INTERVIEW WITH HISTORIAN TONY JUDT: 'DREAMING ABOUT WASHINGTON IS
ONE OF EAST EUROPE'S GREAT MISTAKES'
Historian Tony Judt says ''Washington is not
about
to run to [East Europe's] rescue against Russia.''
October 01, 2009.
The future of the EU, Russia's relations with...
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Conference: "Twenty Years After the Breakdown of Communism in CEE:
Promises, Meanings and Implications of 1989..."
University of Fribourg,
Suisse
MEANINGS OF FREEDOM
IN THE BALKANS
Sonja Biserko
September 25, 2009
Introduction
An attempt to define the meanings of freedom is a difficult
challenge for anyone coming from the Balkans, in particular from...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN
EUROPE
15 July 2009.
by Valdas Adamkus, Martin Butora, Emil
Constantinescu, Pavol Demes, Lubos Dobrovsky, Matyas Eorsi, Istvan
Gyarmati, Vaclav Havel, Rastislav Kacer, Sandra Kalniete, Karel
Schwarzenberg, Michal Kovac, Ivan Krastev, Alexander Kwasniewski,
Mart Laar, Kadri Liik, Janos Martonyi. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Adam...
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THE YUGOSPHERE
By Tim Judah
02 June 2009
Tim Judah examines the overlapping connections
between the nation states
of the former Yugoslavia. They say that
"no news is good news." But for the western Balkans this is not
true. Preoccupied with the world financial crisis, Afghanistan, Iraq
or widespread corruption (ie., British members of parliament,) it is
not surprising that this region gets precious little
coverage in...
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
VIOLATION
Early Warning
Newsletter No. 39
03 June 2009
Vecernje novosti, a high-
circulation daily which
belongs to strategically important national media and serves as a
mouthpiece of the Government, carried Sunday, May 31 a two-page (pp.
6 and 7) Topic of the Day file under the caption WHY ARE CERTAIN
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS...
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THE RACIST CASE FOR PARTITION
by Marko Attila Hoare
05 June 2009
Montgomery
William Montgomery, former US ambassador to Bulgaria, Croatia and
Serbia-Montenegro and former advisor to
President Clinton on Bosnia,
has an article in today's International Herald Tribune, arguing for
the partition of Kosova and Bosnia:
In both Kosovo and Bosnia, we need to consider
different solutions - ones which we may....
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U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA SPEAKS AT CAIRO
UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
04 June 2009.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
Thank you very much. Good
afternoon. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to
be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years,
Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning; and for over a
century,
Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's
advancement.
And together, you represent the...
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SERBIA GRINDS TO
A HALT
Vladimir Gligorov
Pešcanik (B92), 26 December 2008; Bosnian
Institute,
24 January 2009
Article translated from the Pešcanik
[Hourglass] programme of Belgrade's Radio B92 argues that the
Serbian government, instead of following the
pro-EU mandate given it
at the last elections, is following instead a disastrous policy of
continuity with its predecessors
The current... More >>> |
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BALKAN TROUBLES
The West ended the war in the region, now
it's time to secure the peace.
By Morton Abramowitz and Daniel Serwer
Wall Street Journal Europe,
7 January 2009
Bosnia and Kosovo have largely disappeared from
public view. Washington and Brussels are hoping
the promise of
European Union accession will ultimately triumph over remaining
ethnic tensions
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LATINKA PEROVIC
HONOURED ON HER
75th
BIRTHDAY
Bojan Toncic
e-novine.com, 7 Novembar 2008.
Bosnian Institute,
11 November, 2008
Report translated from the Belgrade-based
e-novine website that highlights the pre-eminent role that Latinka
Perovic has come to play for the critical, democratic opposition in
Serbia
On Friday 7 November in Belgrade, the historian
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NEWSLETTER No.1
HATE SPEECH IN SERBIA
Attacks against Sonja Biserko as a classic
example of hate speech against female human rights defenders
24 November 2008
In today's modern world, hate speech and acts of
hate stand for the promoting, glorifying or justifying crimes
committed against social groups or their members because of their
race, skin color, religion, national, i.e. ethnic background,
gender...
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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...
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Campaign against the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
CONTINUATION
AND END - 2
The polemic over the Helsinki Committee's
annual
report for the year 2007 triggered off by Slobodan Antonic's column
in the Pecat magazine of September 12 continued unabatedly in early
October 2008. After the extreme rightist groups that propagate
cleric-fascist ideas and have been blocking the streets of...
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WHO DEFENDS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS?
By Pavel Domonji
5. October 2008, HCHRS |
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Serbia is a dangerous country for human rights defenders. Daily
assaults, demonization and vulgar defamations are the sad
reality of... More >>> |
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RECONTILIATION BETWEEN SERBS
AND CROATS, AND SERBS AND ALBANIANS
Latinka Perovic
I thank you for your
invitation to speak about
reconciliation between
Serbs and Croats and
Serbs and Albanians
before such a
distinguished audience.
But, I must admit that at
this
moment of time my sense of responsiblility by far exceeds my sense
of honour. Tonight this...
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MANEUVER
Toma Nikolic as Dr. Dabic
By Sonja Biserko
Turbulence at Serbia's political scene is a
logical outcome of the May parliamentary elections.
The commotion
within the Serbian Radical Party after its electoral defeat and its
exclusion from the Serbian government was unavoidable - the party
had to get prepared for Serbia's European future. In this context,
the petty town propaganda machinery promptly... More >>> |
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HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN SERBIA
DOES EXIT FESTIVAL
The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
(HCHRS), namely the Belgrade office with the assistance of the Novi
Sad office, conducted a series
of interviews during the Exit
Festival. This particular festival, for the past several years, has
become a brand that Serbia has attempted
to export in order to show...
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VOJVODINA AND POLICIES OF
MULTICULTURALISM: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS
Novi Sad, May 30, 2008
19. August 2008, HCHRS
Even before the concept of multiculturalism was
formally introduced in Serbia, authorities started belittling it,
concluded the participants in the fourth brainstorming session in
the series that was realized under the project "Fostering
Vojvodina's...
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THE EU AND THE SERBIAN CIVIL SOCIETY
By Sonja Biserko
The response of the
Serbian leadership to the
declaration of
independence of Kosovo demonstrated the deep and
dangerous impact of the long-standing radical nationalism on the
internal social and moral fiber of the nation. The response also
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WHY NOT EUROPE?
Novi Sad, April 11, 2008 |
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The
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, on Friday April
11th 2008, in the Parliament of the Autonomous Province of
Vojvodina held... More >>> |
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A MOMENT OF TRUTH
FOR SERBIA
The West must convey to the Serbian people
what is at stake and the dangers of making the wrong choice.
Morton Abramowitz
NEWSWEEK
Mar 15, 2008
It is rare for a small country to take on the
European Union and the United States. But that is precisely what
Serbia is doing. With the support of extreme
nationalist...
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SNAP PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS - A TEST
OF
(ANTI) EUROPEAN
COURSE OF SERBIA
By his dramatic public address on the 8th of
March, Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica announced the collapse of
his government and scheduling of the snap parliamentary elections.
That move of his - which resulted in the decision of President of
Serbia, Boris Tadic to set... More >>> |
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SERB POLITICIANS
ON
INDENPENDENCE OF
KOSOVO
Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of Serbia:
Decision of the government of Serbia to in advance and for ever
annul proclamation of the false state in the territory of Serbia is
the basis of the post-17th February state and national program of
Serbia relating to the province of Kosovo and Metohija. With our
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UNCHANGED MATRIX
More and more are the media transmitters of
wishful thinking, high
hopes and assignments, and less and less
mediators between the reality and the public. When it comes to
Kosovo, the stereotypes about nations and ethnic communities
(Albanians, Slovenians, Muslims, etc.) that dominated the media in
early 1990s were promptly revived. This... More >>> |
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BELGRADE
RIOTS
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Background, dimensions, implications
23. February 2008.
On the margins of a huge demonstration
masterminded by Prime Minister V. Koštunica's Democratic Party of
Serbia (DSS) and orchestrated together with [ICTY indictee] V.
Šešelj's Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) and President B. Tadic as a
grand manifestation of popular outrage at the...
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RUSSIAN STATE TV ON
21st FEBRUARY 2008
DEVELOPMENTS IN
BELGRADE
22. February 2008.
"Today citizens of Belgrade probably remembered
other rallies. They recalled how an enraged crowd, spearheaded by
the very same football fans, chief protagonists of today's
rally, ousted old Milosevic. They remembered how the country
unhinged by liberal promises staged a tearful good-bye to the
Western
stooge, Zoran...
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REVIVAL OF HATE
SPEECH
Frustration due to proclamation of independence
of Kosovo engendered a strong revival of hate speech in public
discourse, notably in the print media. Channeled anger towards
international community actors, those considered by Serbia to be the
most responsible for loss of Kosovo, heralded
the return of the old
stereotypes about internal and external foes to the
media scene... More >>> |
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RUSSIA AS PERCEIVED
BY THE SERB ELITE
30 January 2008, HCHRS
Mihajlo Markovic, academician: Election of
Tomislav Nikolic could end the existing vassal-like and servile
relations towards
the leading powers of the world globalization
which had broken up our country, introduced sanctions against us,
bombarded us, continue to blackmail us, and strive to take Kosovo
from us and thus continue
to carve us up. (...) I think that the
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