CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST DOBRICA COSIC
YUCOM / Helsinki Committee
02. April 2009.
The Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights in Serbia have filed at the District Public Prosecutor's Office in
Belgrade criminal charges against Dobrica Cosic for committing the crime of inciting
national, racial and religious hatred and intolerance according to article 317 of the
Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, as well as the crime of racial and other
discrimination according to Article 387 § 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of
Serbia. The Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia expect the District Public Prosecutor's Office to act impartially and in
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DOBRICA COSIC AND THE LAST DEFENCE OF SERB NATIONALISM
Sonja Biserko
On the occasion of recent publications by the 'father of the Serb
nation', the director of Belgrade's Helsinki Committee for Human Rights analyses his
contribution to an unreconstructed version of Serbia's recent past that continues to hold
sway
On the eve of this year's annual Belgrade book fair, Dobrica Cosic
addressed Serbian public opinion on several fronts, in order to present once again - in
the closing stage of his life - his own interpretation of Yugoslavia's break-up and 'the
Bosnian war', an interpretation that is based solely on lies; and also in order to defend
himself and his role during the preparation and conduct of the war. In addition to
appearing according to tradition in... More >>> |
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A DEMOCRAT IN A "GREATER SERBIA" MANNER
by Slobodan Inic
One of the opposition protagonists who most contributed to a sorry
political and national state of affairs in the country, after five years of
"pluralism", is the other Vojislav (not Šešelj), but ...Vojislav Koštunica.
He is a politician who consistently espouses high principles in the politics and political
struggles, and often quotes an old phrase of Jaša Prodanovic from the time of
"partisanship" strife in early Twentieth century Serbia, although he is
simultaneously ready to betray them when the first favorable occasion arises, in his role
of the frontman of the latest generation of "democratic" Serbs. This political
portrait traces Koštunica's authentic appeal to observance of principles, and accordingly
the adoption... More >>> |
