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Helsinki Charter No. 145-146

November - December 2010

 

Editorial

ABSTRACT DEMOCRACY

By Sonja Biserko

Criticism in public sphere preconditions a democracy. But every critical public sphere needs to be governed by democratic principles and realities of a social context. Otherwise, criticism becomes futile. Take, say, the dissident movement in Serbia in 1960. Its criticism of the then regime was an abstract, dogmatic leftism offering no fundamentally new values. Its activity put an end to the economic reform, as Academician Mihajlo Markovic used to say. Had it not, the economic reform would have stratified the society, he explained. Soon after, a part of that movement sided with the opponents of the 1974 Constitution and Yugoslavia's federalization. So it actually created the atmosphere for the country's brutal...   More >>>

 

Serbia's European Prospects

THE ABSENCE OF POLITICAL WILL

By Vladimir Gligorov

When could Serbia possibly accede to the European Union? With adequate political will the process of accession should be rounded off by a full-fledged membership in 2020. And what does an adequate political will imply? To find out the answer one should compare Serbia with the countries of Middle and East Europe that acceded EU in 2004 and 2007, as well as with...   More >>>

 

Facing up the Truth

PEACETIME BLINDNESS FOR THE EVIL OF WAR

By Bojana Oprijan Ilic

Reports about war crime trials rarely reach the public as feeding the facts about the developments in 1990s to the nation is not a "profitable" business either for policymakers or the media. Of evil grain no good seed can come, goes a saying. In the Balkans too many fruits of evil come from evil grains. In early 1990s when these grains were sowed in the soil fertilized with lunacy and hatred of nationalism and chauvinism...   More >>>

 

Testimony of a Crime

THE BLOODY TRACE OF THE DRINA RIVER

By Irena Antic

In early October the Drina River overflew its basin and flooded the banks of the Perucac Lakes. The hopes of many Visegrad families that bodies of hunderds of the killed and thrown in the Drina in 1992 would ever be found vanished with the floods. For more than two months people from the Institute for the Missing Persons and volunteers from all over Bosnia-Herzegovina have searched for these bodies with super...   More >>>

 

An interview: Dr. Milan Šahovic

WHEN LAWYERS LISTEN TO POLITICIANS

By Seška Stanojlovic

From the angle of international law Kosovo independence declaration has to be discussed in a much larger context. And yet, it is the most important issue for Serbia, especially when it comes to its political abuse. This is one of the reasons why we have talked with one of our most prominent experts in international law, Dr. Milan Šahovic, who used to be a regular contributor to the Helsinki Charter.

"I have not published anything in Helsinška Povelja in quite sometime, so now, when...   More >>>

 

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