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 Committee has been monitoring the
situation of human rights in Sandzak for years. Recent developments in and about Sandzak
and each and every regime's discriminatory attitude towards the Bosniak minority indicate
that the state policy for this part of Serbia has hardly changed in any substantial way.
We witnessed repression against Bosniaks in 1990s, whereas nowadays this minority
community is being criminalized (the Wehabits case) and the significance the Islamic
Community has for Bosniak believers is being denied.
The publication is divided in nine chapters. Apart from the introductory
section, this includes chapters titled "Grassroots Dialogues in Sandzak: Helping to
Overcome Divides and Articulate the Region's True Interests" /transcripts/,
"Helsinki Committee's Workshops" /briefs/, "Sandzak from Regional
Angle," "In the Shadow of the Past," "Regionalization of Serbia and
Position of Sandzak," "Economic Situation," "Human Rights and the
Islamic Community" and "Mufti Muamer Zukorlic: from Religious to Political
Leader." |