In view of the recent demonstration of hate speech in the Republic of Serbia’s Parliament by the Serb Radical Party (SRS) MP Zoran Krasić, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that it has an obligation to remind the citizens and the society in this country that these acts are by no means “incidents”, but a continuous exercise of criminal and destructive policy that has been evident over the past couple of years, even in the Republic of Serbia’s Parliament.

In order to remind our citizens that these threats and insults addressed to fellow MPs are no novelty, we would like to mention the cases of insult addressed to, for example, Žarko Korać (SRS MP Vjerica Radeta on 21 June 2005), Nataša Mićić (SRS MP Aleksandar Vučić on 24 June 2005) as well as the case of the Parliament Speaker, Predrag Marković, whose former political party G17 Plus was referred to, in a speech held by SRS MP Nataša Jovanović on 10 May 2004, as “fascist”: ‘’I have to tell you, ladies and gentlemen of G17+, that it is obvious who the fascists are. They are you. What you are doing is your moral responsibility and the citizens will know how to evaluate your fascist methods”.

This happened regardless of the fact that Tomislav Nikolić, the current president of the Serbian Radical Party, stated in the Parliament on 13 February 2001 that he is “proud to be a fascist”. ‚‚If you consider somebody a fascist for taking part in the warmongering campaign then I am proud to be considered a fascist by you”. The insults addressed to the Minister of Agriculture represent a logical continuation of their policy of public appearances, in which SRS MP Slobodan Janjić literally said for the then-Republic of Serbia’s Minister of Justice on 29 March 2001 that “some dog-catcher’s wire will get him because he does not deserve a bullet”.

‚‚That utility worker says for all those living and dead Serb patriots that they are the dogs of war, and I am telling this kleptomaniac that the dogs of war are dying heroically from bullets or Vladan Batić’s bandits taking them to The Hague instead. Some dog-catcher’s wire will get him [Batic] because he does not deserve a bullet.’’

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