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Helsinki Charter No. 99-100

September - October 2006

 

EDITORIAL: WHAT IS POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE IN SERBIA

By Sonja Biserko

As regards the process of transformation of erstwhile one-party systems in Europe, one may assert that Serbia is a sui generis case. Namely, Serbia tried to use monumental changes in late 20th century Europe, notably those taking place in the Communist countries, to veer Yugoslavia once again to a centralist concept, or to leave Yugoslavia with territories deemed the Serb ethnic ones. To coalesce the public and prime it for the war, and not an overhaul of Yugoslavia into a genuinely democratic...   More >>>

 

CONSTITUTION OF OLCHOCRACY

By Nikola Samardzic

Serbia presently suffers from political schizophrenia that somewhat touches on the confusion, real or imaginary, of her epic hero, Marko Kraljevic. Feeling helpless and with nothing better to do this temporarily rebellious vassal set himself to demolish the Sultan's road. As it turns out, he was actually after better nestling himself in the arms of his mother to whom he appears to be pathologically close and the Sultan who is still his master. Serbia's ruling elite behaves about the same. As if when deciding...   More >>>

 

"EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION" A LA SERBE: PREAMBLE FOR DICTATORSHIP

By Teofil Pancic

Judging by growingly sharp public-political-media rhetoric on the eve of "final resolution of the Kosovo issue," Serbia hurls to disaster. Well, that's nothing new, we've got used to it. All I doubt is that we could go through it once more - under present international circumstances, after all we've already gone through, and for such disputable goals that are being imposed on us. In what form this disaster could befall...    More >>>

 

"EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION" A LA SERBE: A SUIT WITH THOUSAND PATCHES

By Ivan Torov

Out of the blue and in the atmosphere of Last Supper or flea market haggling of a handful of party leaders Serbia was faced with a dilemma or, as many put it, with fait accompli. What shall one do? Go to the polls and vote "for" or "against" the constitution adopted in the "darkness of the night," or just boycott the whole thing for its undemocratic procedure and the lack of convincing argumentation in favor of the imposed constitution? So, people...    More >>>

 

AUTONOMY BULLIED INTO STATEHOOD

By Radivoj Stepanov

All the criticism below, voiced "one minute after midnight," do not exactly dissect Serbia's new constitution. It's just a reflection of the suppressed civil society's anguish at the regime's cheap tricks and the "vampire" constitution imposed on it. It's a lament over a definitely failed project of a civil and modern Serbia, over a unique but missed constitutional opportunity that showed up "way back" in 2000, 2001, 2002 or 2003 and would not show up in...   More >>>

 

"EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION" A LA SERBE: BAD FOR SERBIA, WORSE FOR VOJVODINA

By Stanko Pihler

The arrogance the oligarchy of Serbian leading political parties demonstrated in the parliament when adopting the highest legal act in a putschist way did not come as a surprise. For, citizens have realized long ago how readily they would act to humiliate both them and the institution of the Parliament. That's how we got a kind of imposed constitution the adoption of which paid no heed to any democratic and legal principles...    More >>>

 

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