|
|
|
|
THE VICTIM BECOMES
THE
CRIMINAL
Belgrade, February 4th, 2011.
The arrest of Jovan Divjak symbolizes the
continuation of counterproductive
behavior of Belgrade when it comes
to interpreting the recent past from the
nineties. After arrests of
Ejup Ganic, Ilija Jurisic and recently Tihomir Purda, who were
arrested and
acquitted for lack of
evidence, the "Divjak" case only
deepens mistrust of the countries in the region...
MS Word
(189kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 74
THE 'HUNT' FOR MLADIC
January 2011
The 'Mladic case' is the paradigm of Serbia's
social reality - of its attitude
towards the past, towards reforms
(of the security
sector), towards justice
and, finally, towards its
neighbours. The alleged drama surrounding his arrest is a spectacle
everyone is a part of. One of the key reasons for Serbia's delayed
progress towards...
Acrobat
PDF (377kb) >>> |
|
PETITION
January 30, 2011
Dear Mr. President of the Republic,
We are writing to you on the occasion of the release of Veselin
Vukotic,
a hitman and one of the
most hardened criminals from the
ranks of
Milosevic's secret police,
who was sentenced to 20 years of
prison in
Montenegro in 1997, for murdering sea captain Dusko
Boskovic. As the citizens of this country, we are disturbed by the
fact...
MS
Word (34kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 73
EARLY PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO
January 2011
The high turnout of Serbs at the December 2010
elections and their willingness to participate in Kosovo's
institutions points to a substantial change in Serbia's electorate,
which
is the result of a more
mature political attitude
within the
Serb community in the past decade. During the election campaign...
Acrobat
PDF (280kb) >>> |
|
|
FREEDOM OF
EXPRESSION
ENDANGERED
Belgrade, December 18, 2010.
On the evening of
December 16, 2010 journalist
Branko Zivkovic
was assaulted while
walking his dog. An
unidentified
person brutally attacked him from the back and hurt him in his head.
On the following day Mr. Zivkovic went to the
Emergency Center where
he was given anti-tetanus protection and... More >>> |
|
Petition
THE NORWEGIAN
NOBEL COMMITTEE
Oslo
December 8, 2010
With this petition, we, the undersigned human
rights defenders and democracy activists, speak in the name of
thousands and
thousands of citizens of Serbia, eager to see their
country firmly committed to European course and the highest values
of the
contemporary world...
MS Word (199kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 72
THE PRIDE PARADE -
'VIOLENCE CULTURE'
AND THE OFFENSIVE
FROM THE
RIGHT
November 2010
Serbia has been destabilized by organized crime,
extreme calls for a Greater Serbia from militarist organizations and
enraged sports fans who resemble their striking fist. Having been
announced for a long time, Belgrade's first Pride Parade was fi
nally...
Acrobat
PDF (262kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 71
SERBIAN ORTHODOX
CHURCH ON THE BRINK
OF SCHISM
November 2010
The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is a bastion of
Serbian nationalism. Its ideology is drawn from the radical right
and it is very close to groups at the rightist end of the political
spectrum. With this ideology, the Church played a very important
role in mobilisation and the...
Acrobat
PDF (345kb) >>> |
|
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 70
SHIFT IN BELGRADE'S
KOSOVO POLICY AND
ITS IMPACT
November 2010
The political atmosphere in Serbia has changed
signifi cantly thanks to a shift in
the attitude of the political
leadership to Kosovo. Following submission of
the joint EU and
Serbian resolution to the UN
General Assembly, and the International
Court of
Justice's advisory opinion on the independence of...
Acrobat
PDF (319kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 69
NATIONAL BOSNIAK
COUNCIL ELECTION:
TEST FOR SERBIAN
GOVERNMENT
October 2010
For the past two decades, Sandzak has been a
crisis point which could rapidly be activated and come to the
forefront. Belgrade policies served to radicalize the Muslim
population in Yugoslavia ahead of the wars of the nineties. One of
the theses used to justify them is that radical Islam...
Acrobat
PDF (242kb) >>> |
|
|
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 68
FOREIGN POLICY
U-TURN:
THE FAILED
MANIPULATION OF
KOSOVO
September 2010
The opinion of the International Court of Justice
on Kosovo's independence, Serbia's agreement to a joint resolution
on Kosovo with the EU in the UN General Assembly and the refusal of
a London court to extradite Ejub Ganic at Serbia's request all
testify to the...
Acrobat
PDF (143kb) >>> |
|
|
|
|
PRESS RELEASE
The United Nations and
Genocide: On behalf of
the
Mothers of Srebrenica,
German human rights
activists build a
"Pillar of
Shame" against United
Nations' arrogance
Berlin/Sarajevo, 13.05.2010
The 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide
will be marked by a new form of a memorial: made of 16,744 shoes
(representing the 8,372 victims), two gigantic letters, 'U' and 'N',
cast in shimmering... More >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 64
TURKEY: A FACTOR OF
REGIONAL STABILITY
May 2010
Over the past year Turkey has emerged as a major
factor in the Balkans. Turkish diplomacy
mediated not only between
some countries - between Serbia and Bosnia-
Herzegovina in the first
place - but also in sensitive, internal disputes. Serbia
has been in
the focus of Turkey's activities as a...
Acrobat
PDF (114kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 63
SERB PROGRESSIVE
PARTY PREPARES THE
TERRAIN FOR ELECTIONS
April 2010
Serb Progressive Party (SNS) is vigorously
preparing the terrain for elections - either early on which it
insists or regular scheduled for 2012. Its major objectives at this
stage are to attract as many as possible voters of Serb Radical
Party (SRS) and to demonstrate its power at...
Acrobat
PDF (182kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 62
SERBIA TRAPPED IN
A VICIOUS CIRCLE:
FROM REPUBLIKA
SRPSKA TO KOSOVO
March 2010
Serbia's behavior - notably at international
level - is dictated by its proclaimed strategic goals and
priorities
summed up in the slogan "Both Kosovo and EU." These are mutually
opposed goals and
contrary to the criteria and preconditions for EU...
Acrobat
PDF (186kb) >>> |
|
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 61
MACEDONIA: UNDER
CONSTANT PRESSURE
FROM ITS NEIGHBORS
March 2010
Macedonia's statehood, nation or church have been
denied by its neighbors
ever since its
independence. Has it not been
for EU, US and NATO it would have been thorn by internal conflicts
and, probably, by foreign aggression. However, despite the multitude
of domestic problems...
Acrobat
PDF (187kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 60
SERBIA AND THE WORLD
IN 2009: STILL STANDING
AT A CRUCIAL JUNCTURE
February 2010
Having applied for EU candidacy (in late 2009),
the Serbian government
made the first real
breakthrough in its
proclaimed EU-oriented policy that can not be
revoked. Besides, the
EU annual report was mostly affirmative for Serbia, the EU also
unfroze the Transitional Trade...
Acrobat
PDF (190kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 59
MONTENEGRO: REGIME IN
PODGORICA CONSTANTLY
CRIMINALIZED
February 2010
Relations between Serbia
and Montenegro
aggravated after
Montenegro's recognition
of Kosovo (October 2008)
to which Belgrade
responded by expelling the Montenegrin Ambassador.
When Podgorica and
Prishtina established diplomatic relations
(November 2009)...
Acrobat
PDF (360kb) >>> |
|
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...
Acrobat
PDF (234kb) >>> |
|
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 57
CONSOLIDATION OF
KOSOVO STATE AND
BELGRADE'S RESPONSE
February 2010
After independence declaration Kosovo entered the
phase of state consolidation. While trying to prevent it at any
cost, official Belgrade channeled all its diplomatic energy into
lobbying against Kosovo's international recognition. Its turning to
the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion about...
Acrobat
PDF (213kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 56
SERB PROGRESSIVE
PARTY: A PRETENDED
TRANSFORMATION
January 2010
Serbia's entire political establishment and some
other elites - those in the judicial branch in particular
- welcomed
the
transformation of a part of the Serb Radical
Party /SRS/ into
the Serb Progressive Party /SNS/.
There is no doubt that
Vojislav
Seselj's
inappropriate behavior...
Acrobat
PDF (238kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 55
NEW PATRIARCH -
NO BASIC CHANGES
January 2010
A change at the throne of the Serb Orthodox
Church /SPC/ will effectuate no major changes in the SPC structure,
organization and functioning or, for that matter, in its secular
ambitions. In this context, newly elected Patriarch Irinej
(Gavrilovic), former bishop of Nis, guarantees continuity. In other
words, SPC will be trying to...
Acrobat
PDF (256kb) >>> |
|
Helsinki Bulletin, No. 54
ANTI-EUROPEAN BLOC
GOES ON
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
January 2010
The Serbian cabinet's decision to apply for EU
candidacy in late 2009 was a breakthrough in Serbia's history as a
European country. The decision provoked strong, though
not
necessarily overt, resentment of the
anti-European bloc. Apart from
populist parties (DSS, SNP, SRS, NS, etc.) the...
Acrobat
PDF (295kb) >>> |
|
|
ALL PRESS RELEASE |
PAGE 4 ::: 1 | 2 |
3 | 4 |
5 |
6 |
|
|
|
|