{"id":8440,"date":"2018-04-11T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:44:19","slug":"we-dont-deserve-to-be-represented-by-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/we-dont-deserve-to-be-represented-by-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Deserve to Be Represented by War Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us remind you, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law on Election of Members of Parliament<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regulates the circumstances for termination of the status of MPs before the expiry of the term for which they are elected. The Law clearly and unequivocally provides that the term shall terminate if an MP is effectively convicted to unconditional prison sentence of at least six months. <\/span><b>Since Vojislav \u0160e\u0161elj was sentenced to 10 years in prison and since all judgments of the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals are legally binding for the Republic of Serbia, Vojislav \u0160e\u0161elj\u2019s term as an MP must be revoked.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Youth Initiative for Human Rights has been warning for years of the danger of presence of war criminals in public and political life. The fact that one of them is now a member of parliament has only raised this bar a little higher. <\/span><b>Citizens of Serbia do not deserve to be represented by a man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being responsible for persecution of civilians and who is still one of the leading spokesmen for belligerent policy.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vojislav \u0160e\u0161elj\u2019s public appearances from the moment of his return to Serbia from The Hague in no way indicate his regret or awareness of his responsibility for creating and implementing the policy that led to war. Quite the opposite, he continues rather actively to pursue his campaign of discrimination and the incitement of intolerance which resulted in more than 130,000 lives lost during the wars of the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to revocation of Vojislav \u0160e\u0161elj\u2019s term as MP, we demand departure from the said policy and focusing on dealing with the past as a basis for reconciliation and stability in the region. Reverence for the victims, the assuming of responsibility and compliance with judgments rendered both by the Hague Tribunal and by domestic courts are necessary preconditions for building a better future for young people in the whole region who are forced to live the consequences of war for which they are not responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Youth Initiative for Human Rights is calling on MPs of the National Assembly of Serbia with Maja Gojkovi\u0107 as the Chair, having in mind that a convicted war criminal is sitting in the Parliament, to act in accordance with the law and revoke the term of Vojislav \u0160e\u0161elj, MP and President of the Serbian Radical Party.\r\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[941,803],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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