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Serbian police officer with a knife against an old woman
Bosniak
Criminal Charges against Ibran Mustafic
Date: 09/07/2010 16:54
Author: U. Vukic,
Serbian “Independent News”
Srebrenica - Srebrenica Municipal Police Basic Court in this city has filed
misdemeanor charges against Ibrahim Mustafic, president of the Association "Mothers
of Srebrenica", because he failed to respond to their orders to remove the
controversial billboards set on the eve of commemorating 11th July at the
Memorial Centre in Potocari.
Officials of the District Prosecutor's Office in Bijeljina say they have
ordered the Municipal police in this city to remove the billboards and flags
because they are criminal, and that they in turn ordered Mustafic to remove
the disputed content within two days.
Given that Mustafic has not removed the disputed content, the municipal
police against him filed misdemeanor charges in primary court of contempt
for the decision for enforcing communal order.
The source for the "Independent" from the municipality of Srebrenica
explained that in such cases, the Municipal Police should remove the
disputed content, and that the bill for the cost of removing should be
delivered to Mustafic, but none of that has happened.
"It's all politics. The Communal police have a duty to remove the offending
content, if told by the district prosecutors' office in Bijeljina that there
is a criminal offense, however, those such as Mustafic do not listen to
anyone, nor fear anyone," said this source.
Mustafic setup billboards with offensive content, war flag of the former BiH
Army and signs offensive to Serbs.
At the MUP RS (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of the Serbs) we
were told that ten days ago, after they learned of the disputed content,
they went to the scene and drew up an official note and submitted the report
to the District Prosecutor's Office in Bijeljina, which has assessed that
there are elements of the crime of causing racial and religious hatred,
discord or intolerance.
"The District Prosecutor has filed a criminal complaint against Mustafic for
this crime and has informed the Municipal police in Srebrenica," said Mirna
Šoja, spokesman of the MUP RS.
2. Attorney for the Mothers of Srebrenica: URGENT ACTION
OF THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REQUESTED
Dear Friends:
As you can see the Republika Srpska has now filed Criminal Charges against
Ibran Mustafic, Co-President of the Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinja, over
political Signs and Flags at the Potocari Memorial Center--a mere expression
of his political opinion. Furthermore, the RS are the same people who
committed the genocide at Srebrenica, and Mr. Mustafic was one of the very
few male survivors of that genocidal massacre. There is a serious threat to
his life if he is taken into custody by the RS pursuant to these criminal
charges. Therefore, I hereby request that Amnesty International issue an
Urgent Action on behalf of Ibran Mustafic. The sooner the better.
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours very truly,
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Attorney for the Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinja Board of Directors,
Amnesty International USA (1988-92)
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)
3. Honest people must urgently act to prevent this terror
in Srebrenica
Ibran Mustafic is a victim of genocide. He lost 14 members of his family
including his brother and father. He raised flags of the Republic Bosnia and
Herzegovina in his own property and he raised the 4 (four) banners with the
following statements, all of which are stated by legal authorities of the
world including the International Court of Justice:
1. SERBIA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE
2. SERBIA = AGGRESSION = GENOCIDE = DAYTON = REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
3. JUDGEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERSEDES DAYTON'S
GENOCIDAL CREATIONS
4. VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE DEMAND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECISION OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
For those banners he is charged with “criminal charges” by the same entity
and police that committed genocide in Srebrenica.
The Golden Lilies flag was the flag of the Bosnian Medieval kingdom and was
internationally recognized in 1992 as the flag for the Republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. There is no law against that flag. It is not the flag of
the Bosnian army, which displays two swords crossed above the shield. No
mass crimes were committed under either flag – the Golden Lilies flag nor
the Bosnian army flag -- and neither is forbidden.
We hope that the honest people from Europe and the world will urgently act
and prevent this new terror over the victims of the Srebrenica genocide.
The following are pictures of the location with flags and banners
http://republikabih.net/content/odgovor.htm
NCR B&H
4. PRESS RELEASE: Surviving victims of genocide do not
want Boris Tadic in Srebrenica
The “Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje” were the first to initiate annual
commemoration of the genocide in Srebrenica. They were the ones who
spearheaded and fought for the decision of the High Commissioner to build
the Memorial Center in Potocari/Srebrenica. Despite this role of the
“Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje” in establishing the Memorial Center,
the self-proclaimed “Organizing Committee” for the Commemoration of the 15th
Anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica failed to invite or include the
“Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje” to participate in the planning of the
activities surrounding the 15th anniversary. The sole goal of the
“Organizing Committee” was to give exclusive control to the members of
criminal and genocidal political party of The Party of Democratic Action (in
Bosnian: Stranka Demokratske Akcije, SDA) .
In order to realize their genocidal plans, in conjunction with the 15th
Anniversary of the Genocide the entire leadership of SDA led by Sulejman
Tihić and Sadik Ahmetovic set off on an official visit to Belgrade, and with
heartfelt hugs and kisses with Boris Tadic and Ivica Dacic they agreed that
the president of Serbia will visit the Memorical Center in Potocari on July
11 and Bratunac on July 12 to commemorate the crimes against Serbs – not
Bosnian victims of genocide.
Even though the Mothers tried to work with the Organizing Committee for the
commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of the Genocide and the burial of
newly found remains, the Mothers only found out through the media that at
the ceremonies, the survivors of the Genocide will addressed by Osman
Suljic, the official head of the Srebrenica county; Haris Silajdzic, member
of the presidency of the Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina; Sadik Ahmetovic,
minister of internal affairs; and Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, the same
Serbia that committed aggression and participated in the Genocide in
Srebrenica.
The presence of Serbia’s president in Potacare and his speech have only one
goal—to solidify and validate the nationhood of Republika Srpska whose army
and police, working directly with the Government of Serbia, committed
genocide. With such plans by the Organizing Committee, the living victims of
genocide who will be present at the ceremonies are left to lower their head,
weep, and accept their fate.
For those who may have forgotten: president of Serbia, Boris Tadic, is the
son of Ljubomir Tadic, an academic and member of the group of Serb
intellectuals who created the plan of aggression and genocide. We should not
forget that Boris Tadic was the Minister of Defense at and under his watch
the war criminal Ratko Mladic was gallivanting freely around military bases
across Serbia acting as the Commander of the Serb forces.
It is also by no accident that Premier of the Turkey, whose new role as
peacemaker between “two sister peoples,” will be present on July 11. This is
despite the fact that Turkey, one of the most influential member countries
of NATO, did not lift a finger while aggression and genocide were being
committed against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people.
Under the unseen pressures put upon the victims of genocide by the plans and
actions described above, we are informing the world that on July 11 the
voices of the victims of Genocide will not be silenced in Potacare. If the
“guests” think they are coming to the territory of the Republika Srpska, to
those “guests” the doors of the Memorial Center and Cemetery are permanently
shut. We are informing all of the “guests”, that they are only welcome to
come and visit the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina because the decision
of the International Court of Justice overrides the Dayton Agreements which
was created by genocide.
If President of Serbia and Prime Minister of Turkey view Republika Srpska as
an untouchable, durable, and legal state, then the surviving victims of
genocide under the norms of international law have only one thing to say:
“Vojvodina is an independent state, Sandzak is a Republic, and Kurdistan is
a Republic.” International legal norms can only be legal norms if their
application is just and equally applied across the world. If the “guests”
think that the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is precedence, they only
fool themselves.
The living victims of genocide demand the implementation of the decision of
the International Court of Justice and they will never give up the fight
because genocide will never be accepted as the means of creating genocidal
states and genocidal constitutions.
Sarajevo.
July 8, 2010.
Ibran Mustafic,
President of the Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje
Odgovor
Ibrana Mustafić
a muslimanskim četnicima u genocidnim institucijama u
Srebrenici
Srebrenica 15.06.2010
10 juna 2010-te godine Ibranu
Mustafić
u je uruč
eno rješenje "da u roku ode 48 sati izvrši
uklanjanje-skidanje sa jarbola 5 (pet) zastava postavljenih iza memorijalnog
centra u Potoč
arima". Rješenje je potpisao Mr. Munib Avdagić
, muslimanski
č
etnik i komunalni policajac u genocidnim institucijama u Srebrenici i
genocidnoj Republici Srpskoj.
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Ibran
Mustafić
, Predsjednik UO udruženja Majke Srebrenice i
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Ibran Mustafić
je na ovo rješenje odgovorio sa postavljanjem 4 panoa
između jarbola na kojima se vihore zastave Republike BiH.
Na panoima su citati iz presude Internacionalnog suda
pravde, citat Profesora Francis Boyle-a da je presuda
Internacionalnog suda pravde nadredjena Aneksu IV
Dayton-skog sporazuma i genocidnim tvorevinama u BiH. Na
jednom od panoa je zahtjev žrtava genocida da se
implementira presuda Internacionalnog suda pravde.
Uzbudjenje među
muslimanskim č
etnicima u Srebrenici je izazvala najavljena
posjeta Borisa Tadić
a Srebrenici. Njima ne smeta što č
etnici
ne uklanjanju bespravno izgradjenu crkvu na privatnom imanju
gospodje Fatime Orlović
, ali im smetaju zastave Republike
BiH koje su Srebrenič
ki Bošnjaci postavili na privatnom
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Ovo su zastave Republike
BiH, žrtve agresije i genocida, koje gencidna policija Srebrenice
želi da skine čak i sa privatnog posjeda.
Skenirano rjesenje
Komunalne policije Srebrenica se nalazi na ovom linku:
RJEŠENJE
Poziv
Policije Srebrenice Ibranu da se javi u Policijsku stanicu se nalazi
na ovom linku:
POZIV
Nastavak uznemiravanja Predsjednika UO udruženja "Majke Srebrenice i
Podrinja" putem Tužbe:
Tužba
protiv Ibrana Mustafić
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FREEDOM OF THE PRESS MONTENEGRO STYLE:
On the margins of the
recent sentencing of Veseljko Koprivica
 Veseljko Koprivica is the sharpest pen in Montenegrin journalism. He
is also the author of several books of non-fiction and collections
of reportage's. During the turbulent war years in the former
Yugoslavia, Koprivica was the editor-in-chief of Liberal. He is
currently one of the editors of the Monitor weekly. Koprivica`s
weekly column in Monitor is a vivid reminder of the importance of
critical thinking and analytical approach to journalism, and an
example of journalistic integrity and personal courage.
Veseljko Koprivica, was recently sentenced by the High Court to pay
15,000 Euros in compensation to the former editor-in-chief of the
Montenegrin State Television (TVCG), Bozidar Colovic. The High Court
found Koprivica liable for damages that were ``non-material in
nature`` and in its ruling stated that he was responsible for
causing ``mental anguish`` to Colovic and was ``questioning his
honor.``
On September 24, 1994, while working as the editor-in-chief of the
weekly Liberal, Veseljko Koprivica published an article written by
Milo Djurdjevac, a Bosnian journalist then living in the Netherlands
as a refugee. In his article, Djurdjevac stated that according to
the documents of the Hague Tribunal, some 16 Montenegrin journalists
were listed as war mongers and were considered persons of interest
by the Tribunal. According to Djurdjevac, the name of Bozidar
Colovic was on that list.
Before publishing the article in question, Koprivica tried to
confirm the validity of the information and spoke with the author of
the article 3 times. Furthermore, he asked for and was provided with
the faxed copy of the document from the Hague Tribunal containing
the information about Montenegrin journalists being persons of
interest for the Hague Tribunal because of their war mongering and
nationalist propaganda. He also consulted with his colleagues in
Montenegro about the possible implication of such article appearing
in the Montenegrin press. Only then did Koprivica agree to publish
the article.
One year after the publication of this article (1995), Bozidar
Colovic sued Koprivica demanding compensation. It is interesting to
note that Bozidar Colovic never even attempted to dispute the
accuracy of the information published in the article. He decided to
sue the editor-in-chief of the Liberal, and not the author of the
article, and demanded compensation on the basis of mental anguish
being caused to him.
For nine years the court supposedly tried to determine the level of
accuracy of the statements about the list of names. It never took as
evidence the faxed copy of the document that Veseljko Koprivica
received from the Hague Tribunal. It also never subpoenaed the
author of the article as a witness for the defense. After many years
of hard work of the court-appointed investigators only one thing
remains a certainty: in the case file of Bozidar Colovic vs Veseljko
Koprivica there is no evidence proving that Koprivica deliberately
published an article containing inaccurate information and
defamatory statements about Bozidar Colovic. All documents point to
Koprivica verifying the information to the best of his professional
abilities. The case against him, nevertheless, dragged on until it
reached a conclusion a week ago.
Meantime, in 2004 the Montenegrin State Television (TVCG) had
produced and aired a documentary entitled Witnesses of a Century,
portraying its former editor-in-chief, Bozidar Colovic as a war
monger indeed. It should be said that this documentary appeared as
an integral part of the new political course in Montenegro and was
aimed at polishing up tarnished professional reputation of the TVCG.
It was a good example of the stage-managed self-criticism aimed at
avoiding analysis of a systemic problems plaguing the TVCG. Many of
those portrayed as war mongers in this documentary were former
employees. Mr. Colovic never attempted to dispute the
characterizations of his journalistic and editorial work made in the
documentary, while the court decided not to take into account the
aforementioned documentary film.
At present, the professional conduct of Mr. Colovic during his
tenure at the TVCG in the early 1990s and his devotion to the cause
of war are a matter of public knowledge in Montenegro. It is worth
noting that Mr. Colovic is just one of many journalists in
Montenegro (and the whole of the former Yugoslavia for that matter),
whose elevated partisan tenor and daily calls to arms issued in
newspaper columns and TV editorials greatly contributed to the
climate of hatred and ethnic tensions in the region.
Regardless of ther lack of evidence against him and despite serious
professional errors on the part of the court officials, Veseljko
Koprivica was found guilty for causing mental anguish to Bozidar
Colovic and for demaging his professional reputation. While the
court`s decision is not final and Mr. Koprivica still has some legal
remedy at his disposal, he would first have to pay the 15.000 Euros
to the plaintif.
Koprivica`s defense team and some legal experts have argued that
these court proceedings are problematic at best. Representatives of
non-governmental organization Action for Himan Rights, from
Podgorica, stated that vis-a-vis the European freedom of expression
standard defined by the Article No. 10 of the European Convention on
Human Rights, this High Court ruling against Veseljko Koprivica is
very problematic indeed.
First, the court failed to subpoena the author of the article, Milo
Djurdjevac, despite Mr. Koprivica`s repeated requests.
Second, it failed to consider material evidence in favor of Mr.
Koprivica – the copy of the document from the Hague Tribunal and the
documentary film produced in 2004 by the TVCG.
Third, it failed to take into account the fact that since the time
the article appeared in print (1994) the legislative framework in
Montenegro had changed considerably. According to the Montenegrin
Law about the Media (2002) that is currently applied, the
editor-in-chief of a media outlet can not be sued in case articles
published in his newspaper or magazine are causing mental anguish to
individuals. This responsibility rests with the author of an article
in question.
The sentencing of Veseljko Koprivica is one of a number of court
cases involving journalists in Montenegro. Almost all are about
journalistic criticism of the ruling business and political elite in
Montenegro, and investigative journalistic texts on the issues of
corruption, money laundering, and criminalization of the Montenegrin
society. The most recent court ruling on May 19th 2008 involved the
20,000 Euros fine that the director of the daily Vijesti must pay to
the Montenegrin Prime Minister, Milo Djukanovic. Once again, it was
the issue of a journalist causing mental anguish and tarnishing a
reputation af a prominent public figure.
While each individual case has its own internal dynamic the fact
that at present there is some 40 active court cases against
journalists in Montenegro should at least raise some eyebrows. The
projected lack of impartiality of the judiciary in Montenegro
further aggravates the situation. The impression is left that the
ruling elite and the business elite associated with structures of
power could influence court proceedings and decisions. Faced with
the possibility of financial ruin media outlets are understandably
reluctant to engage in critical analysis of the transtion process
and all its discontent. Many journalist, for their part, are shying
away from hot topics involving political and business leaders in
Montenegro. Some analysts argue that all this points to a troubling
trend of growing authoritarian tendencies of the rilling elite. The
freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Montenegro are
applied rathe selectively, and those who dare to publically
criticize the current power structure and its business partners
could look forward to a potential hefty fine.
Dr. Srdja Pavlovic
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of History and Classics
2 - 28 Henry Marshall Tory Building
University of Alberta, Edmonton. T6G 2H4
Alberta, Canada
Office: Humanities 1-53. Tel: (780) 492-7456 (office); 492-3270
(messages)
E-mail: srdjapavlovic@yahoo.com
and/or: editors@spacesofidentity.net, andpavlovic@ualberta.ca
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