BELGRADE -- The Serbian Parliament Collegium will discuss a draft declaration condemning crimes against Serbs, it has been announced.
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Parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović distributed the draft to MPs, which will be discussed on Wednesday. The document does not state any concrete crimes.
Ruling Democrats (DS) spokeswoman Jelena Trivan said that her party’s proposal to call upon the public and parliaments in the region to condemn crimes against Serb population had been adopted.
“Nobody can interfere in the affairs of other countries, but we can express our expectation that those countries will condemn crimes committed against Serbs and contribute to the reconciliation process,” said she.
The DS spokeswoman added that their proposal also included calling upon international organizations which had been dealing with investigations and processing of war crimes to finish what they had started and convict the perpetrators.
Chief of opposition Serb Radical Party (SRS) parliamentary group Dragan Todorović said that the proposed declaration was pointless, stating that it was “impossible that authorities did not realize that not only has no one accepted to apologize for the crimes against Serbs but that some were celebrating the crimes as their military successes”.
He stressed that SRS was going to the Collegium in order to request its two draft declarations to also be put on the parliament's agenda – one condemning the Armenian genocide, and the other condemning crimes against Serbs, Roma and Jews during World War II in Croatia.
Chief of opposition DSS parliamentary group Miloš Aligrudić stated that his party officials would not attend the meeting tomorrow, and repeated that DSS believed all crimes needed to be condemned together.
The Serbian parliament recently adopted a resolution condemning the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
“The proposed declaration condemning crimes against Serbs doesn’t have political significance as far as we're concerned, and it’s done only as a complementary act of Srebrenica declaration,” said Aligrudić.
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Does this leave any question as to why independence is the only viable option for Kosovo.
(doodah, 5 May 2010 02:53)
"So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar"
DimTuc
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Really? So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians? It has only condemned Srebrenica - certainly by the far the worst crime, but only one in one month out of years of slaughter in 1991-95 and then 1998-99. So this current legislation is ahrdly reciprocal.
(DimTuc, 4 May 2010 17:34)
"So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar"
DimTuc
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Really? So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians? It has only condemned Srebrenica - certainly by the far the worst crime, but only one in one month out of years of slaughter in 1991-95 and then 1998-99. So this current legislation is ahrdly reciprocal.
(DimTuc, 4 May 2010 17:34)
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Does this leave any question as to why independence is the only viable option for Kosovo.
(doodah, 5 May 2010 02:53)
Really? So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar Albanians? It has only condemned Srebrenica - certainly by the far the worst crime, but only one in one month out of years of slaughter in 1991-95 and then 1998-99. So this current legislation is ahrdly reciprocal.
(DimTuc, 4 May 2010 17:34)
"So when does the Serbian parliament intend to apologise for Serbia's crimes against Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovar"
DimTuc
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Hopefully never! Any proof? Hardly! These were casualties of war. Serbs and Serbia was only defending itself. Serbs were and still are the biggest victim to islamist albanians and bosnjaks and croats.
(Mikael C, 4 May 2010 18:42)
Does this leave any question as to why independence is the only viable option for Kosovo.
(doodah, 5 May 2010 02:53)