Press release

BELGRADE ENCOURAGES
SEPARATISM IN BiH AND
LEGITIMIZATION OF
CRIMES

Belgrade, January 9, 2024

Despite numerous
warnings from the High Representative and other international officials that
the Republika Srpska Day
is unconstitutional, Milorad Dodik organized a two-day celebration of the
Republika Srpska Day on January 8th and 9th. This is a provocation...   More >>>

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 170

SERBIA AND CHINA:
AN EVER-TIGHTENING
EMBRACE

October 2023

The war in Ukraine, its prolonged duration and uncertain outcome greatly contribute to changes in the geopolitical map of the world and position of the key actors in it. The unique response of the Western Euro-Atlantic community to the Russian aggression...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 169

SERBIA: BUILDING THE
STATE AND STATE AND
NATIONAL IDENTITY

October 2023

Identity politics already became relevant in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, in the new historical circumstances created by the country’s deep political crisis that ultimately led to its brutal breakup. The homogenization of the Serbian people already...
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CONDEMNATION ATTEMPT
TO REHABILITATE NAZI
COLLABORATOR DRAZA
MIHAILOVIC

Civil society activists protest the gross manipulation of the public opinion in the process of rehabilitation of Dragoslav-Draza Mihailovic, leader of the Tchetnik movement in WWII. Dragoslav-Draza Mihailovic is a war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity
- against Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs as well. The...
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Press release

REHABILITATION OF
DRAŽA MIHAJLOVIĆ
MORALLY UNACCEPTABLE

Belgrade, 11 October, 2023

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights strongly condemns the renewed campaign geared towards the rehabilitation and glorification of Dragoljub Draža Mihailović, a convicted war criminal and collaborator of the occupier. The opening of a private museum and the construction of a
monument in...   More >>>

Press release

INCIDENT IN MEDVEĐA -
ALBANIANS IN SOUTH OF
SERBIA WORRIED

Belgrade, 2 October 2023

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia urges the police to urgently investigate the attack on Ruhan Muharemi from Medveđa. According to his son, a group of 15 people threw stones at his parents' house and cars on
Saturday night while
singing nationalist songs. This attack has greatly upset the...   More >>>

Press release

BELGRADE PROVOKING
CONFLICTS

Belgrade, 27 September 2023

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia must warn that the
incursion of the Banjska group into the north of Kosovo is an attempt by Belgrade to provoke conflicts, so that the
Serbian army would then enter to protect the Serbian people in the north and
thus achieve a division of Kosovo. This intrusion was to be expected...   More >>>

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 168

SERBIA’S FOREIGN
POLICY: EXPECTATIONS
AND REALITY

September 2023

Russian aggression
against Ukraine has accelerated geostrategic realignments, which has also inevitably led to the refocusing of the Western international community on the Western Balkans, primarily Serbia as the key destabilizing factor in the region. The changed...
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