DOBRICA ĆOSIĆ AND THE LAST DEFENCE OF SERB
NATIONALISM
Sonja Biserko
2008
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 Ćosić 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 NIN, Večernje novosti and Politika - which
has serialised his...
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY VIOLATION Early Warning
Weekly Newsletter No. 48
Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and Helsinki Committee for
Human Rifgts in Serbia (HOPS) filed with the District Attorney (Prosecutor) in Belgrade
April 1, 2009 a lawsuit against Dobrica Cosic , charging him with inciting ethnic, racial
and religious hatred and intolerance, as stipulated by §317, para. 1, as well as by
§387, para. 3 of the Penal Code of the Republic of Serbia, citing "Racial and other
discrimination", since in his book "The Time of Serpents - Writer's Notes
1999-2000" Dobrica Cosic wrote about the Albanian people, inter alia: "That
social, political and moral dreg of a tribal, barbarian Balkans, allies itself with
America and the European Union in their struggle against the most democratic, most
civilized, most enlightened Balkan people - the Serbian people." The two
organizations underline that the... MS Word (246kb) >>> |
