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April 2006 - No. 4

 

 The Topic of the Issue

 • Editorial Board, FACING THE PAST – A GLOBAL PROCESS
 • Milan Simic, CRIMINALS ARE FREE
 • Ivana Djordjevic, THE WAYS OF FORGIVENESS
 • Marija Sajkas, THE WORD THAT BECOMES THE DEED
 • Drago Pilsel, DE-ETHNIFICATION OF IDENTITY
 • Refik Hodzic, CONTROVERSIES OF THE “DAYTON PROJECT”


INTERVIEW
• Binta Mansaray, WHEN THE COURT TALKS TO THE CITIZENS
• OSCE MISSIONS HELP DISCUSS INTER-STATE CO-OPERATION IN WAR CRIMES PROCEEDINGS BEFORE DOMESTIC COURTS


WAYS TOWARDS JUSTICE
• Vesko Krstajic, AWARE OF HIS RESPONSIBILITY
• Ivan Stojkovic, SPEEDILY TOWARD NEW FORMS OF CRIMINALITY
• Omer Hadziomerovic, THE TRAINING OF JUDGES AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR AN INDEPENDENT PERFORMANCE OF THE JUDICIAL DUTIES


FACE TO FACE
• Dejan Anastasijevic, STRICTLY CONTROLLED CRIMINALS
• Drago Hedl, DRAMA, INTRIGUES, POLITICS


TRIBUNAL IN HAGUE
• ETHNIC CLEANSING IN PRIJEDOR


MEDIA AND CRIME

• Nadezda Gace, JOURNALISTS IN THE MIRROR
• Radovan Kupres, NOT ALL LAUGHS ARE IDENTICAL

 INTRODUCTION

 

OBLIGATION
 

When this issue of Pravda u tranziciji – the fourth one – will reach its readers, Ratko Mladic might be, but might as well not be in The Hague. On the day of its publishing, the 25th of April, this cannot be predicted, although recently many words were said in regard to responsibility, at least related to the issue of Mladic.

The thesis that this is the “last obligation of Serbia” in regard to this tribunal is more and more accepted in the public. If that is so remains to be seen. Certain is only that Mladic is if not the last, then certainly the priority “obligation”.

The fact remains, and it is also an encouraging one, that exactly in these days Serbia demonstrates to have seriously taken the obligation related to her own past. And in its exit strategy The Hague Tribunal, particularly since Milosevic’s death, leaves many obligations to Serbia. This is a clear message to those who hoped that the Tribunal’s exit strategy will mean a grace period from – justice.

In the forthcoming period, the institutional confronting with issues, the defense of integrity, consciousness and dignity of a serious state will stand the exam of maturity of its elite, but first of all of its citizens.

If someone undertakes to impale a two-year old child on a bayonet, there is no such patriotism which can justify such an atrocity. And it is exactly this type of persons that will face justice and - with all respect for the notion of presumption of innocence - will be sentenced to adequate imprisonment.

Unfortunately, there are many such individuals remaining free and therefore there are so many frustrations. We are living in the same country with these people, on the road to European future. European future establishes new priorities for Serbia and Montenegro – cooperation with the Tribunal and the strengthening of the War Crimes Prosecution Office. It is no coincidence that the War Crimes Prosecution Office is one of the priority concerns of Europe. European partnership determines new priorities for Serbia and Montenegro – cooperation with the Tribunal and strengthening of the War Crimes Prosecution Office. Europe defines these “homeworks” as short-term ones. The consequences are – needless to say – long-term ones.
 

Jasna Sarcevic-Jankovic

 

 

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