Minister Stefanović’s assessment that there ’weren’t any incidents’ nor disturbing of the public peace and order in Borča on Saturday, April 27th is scandalous. Yet again, Stefanović has issued orders to the police to act in the interests of the politics promoted, not the laws they are obliged to protect and respect.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights strongly condemns violence and lynching threats to the employees and the owner of the ‘Roma’ bakery in the Belgrade suburb of Borča, which was under siege by hooligans on the 27th of April. They threatened to close down the bakery, sang nationalist chants, and the situation culminated with them leaving pig heads in front of the bakery.
On April 23 1999, a building of the Ratio Television of Serbia (RTS) in the Aberdareva Street was hit during the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, when 16 RTS workers were killed.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) wishes to express its disapproval of the public panels and statements made within public institutions and public media service RTS where convicted war criminal Nikola Šainović has made guest appearances, and where facts about war crimes that affected Albanian population in Kosovo during 1999. were being neglected or made relative.
Communication of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights with regard to the Reply from the Socialist Party of Serbia.
