BELGRADE, April 22 (Hina) - The departure of Slobodan Milosevic was but the first step in the introduction of the respect of human rights, the president of the Serbian Helsinki Committee on Human Rights, Sonja Biserko, said on
Monday.
BELGRADE, April 22 (Hina) - The departure of Slobodan Milosevic was
but the first step in the introduction of the respect of human
rights, the president of the Serbian Helsinki Committee on Human
Rights, Sonja Biserko, said on Monday. #L#
Presenting a report on human rights in Serbia in 2001, Biserko said
that despite some positive changes, the main levers of Milosevic's
rule, the police and the army, remained untouched and were used in
the squaring of accounts of the two opposing political factions in
the DOS ruling coalition.
The Hague war crimes tribunal is the issue which will show if
society is changing or not, if the renewal of conservative
nationalist ideas will lead the country into a new period of
isolation and regression, or if conditions for admission into the
Council of Europe will be met, said Biserko.
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