NO. 1

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