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YOUTH INITIATIVE for HUMAN RIGHTS INICIJATIVA MLADIH ZA LJUDSKA PRAVA NISMA E TË RINJVE PËR TË DREJTAT E NJERIUT Contents Introduction 2017. JANUARYJUNE YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INICIJATIVA MLADIH ZA LJUDSKA PRAVA NISMA E TË RINJVE PËR TË DREJTAT E NJERIUT contents introduction Anita MITIć, Director We live in the introduction Dear readers, partners and friends, It is always a great pleasure to share a semi-annual newsletter with you, and briefly summarize tion for years. In addition, we noted a constant threat to this dialogue by rightists and hooligan what we did in the previous, very dynamic, six months. groups which interrupt events important for mutual understanding between the two societies. It seems that the first half of 2017 represents an introduction to long-term social and political It’s a big mistake to ignore the dialogue that has been going on for years in both Serbian so- processes in Serbia and the region. The rapid rise of extreme-nationalist groups and organi- ciety and between civil society representatives from Serbia and Kosovo. It’s necessary to con- zations and the radicalization of their actions is galloping, with the only obstacle in the form of tinue building the relations between the two societies based on the values that for years have peacekeeping organizations that oppose them. The state doesn’t care, the Minister of Internal been the basis of the connection and the existing dialogue: peace, mutual understanding and Affairs calls those who protest against the panels with war criminals as main speakers fascists, trust building. The priority obligation of the state must be to provide protection and security to and the Minister of Culture develops special relations with the organization that organizes the individuals and organizations who are the pioneers of this dialogue events where Miroljub Petrović speaks. In the regional perspective, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office is the biggest opportunity for enhancing cooperation. A year after the WB6 Summit in Paris in July last year and the signing of an Agreement on the Establishment of RYCO, the institution became operative since July 4 this year. The first programs supported by RYCO should begin before the end of this year and YIHR will continue to work closely with those whose efforts are focused on reconciliation in the region. At the same time, newly elected President Vučić is trying to sensitize the public in Serbia to change in relations with Kosovo, insisting on the need for internal dialogue within the Serbian society. On the importance of dialogue on Kosovo, we pointed out back in June, among the first, when President Vučić put this question as one of his priorities. In an open letter, we invited 1 the President to side with us, who promote the values of reconciliation, dialogue and coopera- open letter Open Letter to the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić Honorable President Vučić, We understand as an excellent signal that among the first topics that you have opened in your presidential term is attitude towards Kosovo and the region. From our side, we want to introduce you to the fact that a very substantial, lively and intensive dialogue on this topic is for years conducted under the auspices of civil society across the region. In recent days, the dialogue is endangered by physical threats and lynch atmosphere created by the extreme right and hooligan groups. Events that represent a platform for dialogue, are violently interrupted, threats to representatives of NGOs are more open, and the escalation of violence is inevitable if state authorities do not react concretely. University of Belgrade and Belgrade Youth Center are no longer the guardians of free thought and discussion, they are occupied by the screaming masses that express their opinion only through violence. A necessary condition for the dialogue that you announced is the elimination of all forms of violence from the public space. It is impossible to talk if extremist groups feel free to violently attack political opponents. Therefore, we urge you to openly side with those who have been promoting the values of​​ reconciliation and cooperation and to put your authority in function of protecting human rights defenders whose security is directly threatened. There are many questions without common answers in our society and some major disagreements on key social and political issues, and we fully agree with your assessment that the broader dialogue is necessary. We believe that meeting point and basis for this dialogue should be a message “It’s Shameful to Hate!” In Belgrade, 02.06.2017. 2 Youth Initiative for Human Rights YiHR s an organization which is based on respect for human life as the first moment this phenomenon appeared. As a reminder, Athe only foundation and core value of every open and succe- during the last year’s promotion of Momčilo Krajišnik’s book, in Youth ssful society, we consider that the participation of convicted war the Belgrade Youth Center organized by the Independent DSS (on criminals in public space sends a clear message that their return is the electoral list of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party) during welcome and accepted under a false thesis on freedom of speech. the election campaign, My Initiative’s activists protested in front Initiative for of the Youth Center and in the hall where the promotion was held. Without disputing the importance of freedom of speech, Youth Ini- They then clearly stated that the public space can not be used for tiative for Human Rights asks: What about the rights of victims and the purpose of rehabilitating war criminals who committed some why is their voice not heard? With this issue, we are focusing on the Human Rights of the most monstrous crimes and that they expect from relevant most important topic according to which the Serbian society must city institutions to not take part in such shameful promotions of be determined, which is: Does a convicted war criminal, after ser- the wrong value system. defends ving a prison sentence, continues to be a war criminal? So far, the most important and certainly the most significant For us in YIHR, this dilemma does not exist, we consider that our event aimed at signaling the trend of returning war criminals to most important mission is defense of democratic values, among freedom of the public media space is the protest of our activists at a discussi- which is the media space protected from those who have in the on in Beška in January 2017, organized by the Serbian Progressive past violated and restrained the human rights of others. Therefore, Party (SPP). One of the announced speakers was Veselin Šljivan- within the framework of our activities, we will continue to alert the speech čanin, a former colonel of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who was public to the need to keep the media space clean and to not allow sentenced by the Hague Tribunal in 2010 to 10 years in prison for persons legally convicted of war crimes to influence public opinion. crimes committed in Vukovar in 1991. Pervasive presence of history revision is an attempt to push the On that occasion, Initiative’s activists decided to raise their voi- court-established facts to the background. Our society has been Youth Initiative for Human Rights believes that ces, draw public attention and clearly oppose the participation of fighting with the consequences of disregarding the past for more this proven war criminal at a public gathering. After they unwra- defending the values of a democratic society than 20 years, and our opinion is that the roots of most of the pped a protest banner that read: “ War criminals to remain silent problems lie in the fact that a clear boundary in relation to those implies a media space in which there is no in order to talk about the victims” activists were strongly verbally who committed war crimes was never clearly set. Without this, and physically attacked. room for convicted war criminals. Serbian society can not move forward and build relations with its neighbors based on reconciliation and dialogue. ”The attack on activists is not just an attack on Youth Initiative for Human Rights, it’s an attack on all people who do not agree with In the battle for media space, where war criminals will not have a the idea that a war criminal should be hosted in state institutions 3 place to promote their ideas and justify crime, YIHR fought from YiHR and allowed the space to spread his ideology and values and to deny crimes“, said YIHR’s director Anita Mitić, at Drama continued with another attack that occurred just ten days a press conference held two days after the attack in Beška. later, when a group of young men plastered hate messages on the door of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. After this, it was clear Numerous civil society organizations, political parties and public figures supported YIHR after this attack. A that the statements of Prime Minister Vučić and Minister Stefanović letter of support, signed by many organizations such as - Humanitarian Law Center, Helsinki Committee for that followed the debate where activists were called fascists, foreign Human Rights in Serbia, Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, Women in Black, Center for Eu- mercenaries and traitors, served as an alibi for any future attacks that ro-Atlantic Studies and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights YUCOM, states: have become a measure of patriotism for certain hooligan groups. ”The signatories of this letter strongly condemn this brutal attack Youth Initiative’s activists, the rhetoric of the Due to a series of insults, untruths and defamation, YIHR filed 10 ruling party, which, instead of the perpetrators, blames the victims for violence, as well as the policy that per- lawsuits against Informer and its editor-in-chief, which began a sistently encourages the hunting of representatives of those non-governmental organizations advocating the new stage in this fight.
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