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15 Years since the First Gross Crime against Humanity in the territory of Ex-Yugoslavia

Press release

Belgrade, November 17, 2006

 

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia reminds the public that around this time, precisely November 20, fifteen years ago the former Yugoslav People's Army - with ample assistance of territorials recruited solely by ethnic criteria and criminal para-military troops - "liberated" Vukovar through systematic destruction, plunder, ethnic cleansing, killing of civilians hidden in basements of their houses and setting up infamous concentration camps such as Ovcara.

Regretfully, not even 15 years after the first gross crime against humanity in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia - the executioners of which in the command chain presently stand trial before the tribunal in The Hague - there are no hints that Serbia's institutions will be seriously reconsidering, in foreseeable future, the ideological background and the sum and substance of the aggression against the territory that should have been by definition defended from outside enemy only. Unless she clearly distances herself from the project giving birth to Vukovar crime and other serious crimes committed in 1991-99 wars, as well as from the ideas its originators and protagonists still spread, Serbia will be running into stumbling blocks in the way of full normalization of relations with Croatia and other countries in the region. Unfortunately, the same stumbling block will be standing in the way of her full democratization and transformation into a modern, European state.

 

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