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Helsinki Charter No. 151-152

May - June 2011

 

Editorial

RATKO MLADIC: A WAR CRIMINAL OR A NATIONAL HERO

By Sonja Biserko

After sixteen years in hide-out - no doubt assisted by the state and various services - Ratko Mladic finally ended up in The Hague. The operation of his arrest (at the eleventh hour) opened the window of opportunity to Serbia and its President Tadic for obtaining EU candidacy. In could be said in this context that except for Democratic Party of Serbia and the Radicals all other parliamentary parties went along with his arrest - did not oppose it at least. Massive protests by extremely rightist groups did not ensue. The arrest of Ratko Mladic put an end to one chapter of Serbia's relations with ICTY. The state demonstrated that, when willing, it is capable of controlling "the street" and presenting itself to its citizens as a...   More >>>

 

A Letter to Journalist Jacky Rawland

A BULLET THAT MISSED YOU

By Zoran Janic

Dear Ms. Rawland:
Let me tell you with due respect that I am not writing this letter in my name - as we do not know each other - but on behalf of a certain person I run into last summer. This letter, therefore, is the consequence of that brief meeting and my talk with this young guy, I'll name here Matador (actually he never told me his real name). On that occasion he confided - if a total stranger ever tells you anything in...   More >>>

 

Ratko Mladic in The Hague

GENERAL IN THE HAGUE, SERBIA ON TEST

By Ivan Torov

At long last! After a 16-year-seach that generally resembled some obnoxious game of who gets whom more effectively, a general and creator of the most monstrous war crime in the territory of Europe after WWII found himself in the place he should have been in long ago when first news about the tragedy of almost the entire male population in Srebrenica started pouring in. He found himself in ICTY which now, almost at the end of its mandate, has...   More >>>

 

Serbia on its Road Towards Europe

THE PRICE OF NATIONALISM

By Vladimir Gligorov

When Serbia decided to arrest Ratko Mladic, Croatia finalized negotiations with EU expecting to become its full-fledged member in 2013. Unlike the two, Slovenia's pace towards European integrations had been the same as that of other Middle European, post-socialist countries. So, how much did ex-Yugoslav countries paid for their nationalisms? Now, after 20 years of ex-Yugoslavia's disintegration and 20 years...   More >>>

 

Ratko Mladic in The Hague

SAMIR AND RYAD HAD THE RIGHT TO LIVE

By Irena Antic

Equal in death the same as they had been equal in fear and agony before in the heat of July 1995 in the death-fields spreading from Srebrenica and Bratunac to Konjevic Polje, Nova Kasaba and Zvornik they looked at this world for the last time, citizens of Podrinje, killed in the Srebrenica genocide, more than 600 of them, returned this July 11, after 16 years, to Potocare, to the same spot where they met their death. Together with 4,534 victims already buried in the Memorial...   More >>>

 

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