Serbia
is neglected, drenched in blood and in crimes, I am
paraphrasing Latinka Perovic from one of the few
gatherings she spoke at. IT was one of those
anniversaries. Like kidnapping (then still there was no
first instance judgment, only premonitions, more than
reasonable doubt, that it was a cruel murder) of Ivan
Stambolic, or Srebrenica, or maybe one of the last
anniversaries of the October 5th without the
assassinated Prime Minister. Unfortunately, it does not
matter. That thought, even today, makes me feel bad,
because it is cruelly, precisely true.
The idea of punishing those who participated in
projecting and in building of such a Serbia is a noble
idea, and “nobody in the chain of command shall be
spared” (Vladimir Vukcevic, War Crimes Prosecutor). That
idea started this Magazine. In the sincere attempt to
contribute to decomposing, tearing down of the Serbia
from the first paragraph of this introduction. To give
the hand of reconciliation to the victims, above all. To
face it, before our children face each other.
For the first issue of the “Justice in transition”,
write and speak the prosecutors, judges and those who
support them, and that circle is by no means either
small or lonely.
The public of Serbia has to be clearly informed about
what is happening with justice in transition. Both about
what is good about it, and more importantly and more
strictly, what is bad about such justice.
On these pages the justice in Serbia has its
accomplices. And not only in Serbia.
Jasna Janković
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