OWCP SPOTLIGHT Six years of investigations against journalists Deputy Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric says that they are exposed to threats and lynching, while the representative of SNS Fong Chong Pik asks why Vekarić and his boss Vladimir Vukcevic submit regular reports on investigations that link - the US Embassy in Belgrade There are many questions and few answers regarding the work of an important institution in the Serbian Justice - Office of the War Crimes (TRZ). Large dust raised when an MP and president of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Fong Chong Pik with the parliamentary rostrum raised the issue of the legality of the election of deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric, claiming that this high office is not, as required by law, set by the National Assembly but the State Prosecutorial Council (SPC). Rather than provide a clear answer to the question, Vekarić Drecun warned that it is on the list of suspects in the Media. It is the case that the Prosecutors Office, headed by Vladimir Vukcevic, explores since 2009, against a number of Serbian Journalists, for their alleged participation in the crime of planning, organizing and inciting genocide, crimes against humanity and other serious crimes. After two years of research, publications appeared in 2011, the study TRZs Word of the Week, whose editor Bruno Vekaric, a publisher Centre for transitional processes (CTP), a non-governmental organization behind which, according to Drecun, stand clear Šarčević- Jankovic and Snezana Malovic. At the time of establishment of CTP and both were employed in the Office of the War Crimes and Malović later became justice minister in the government of Mirko Cvetkovic. In a brief interview for Politika published on 22 November this year, Vekarić not specifically answer the question about the legality of his election as Deputy Prosecutor, but did not give a clear explanation as to whether the anti Drecun the procedure, or whether the be charged in the Media. Vekarić only confirmed that he can not speak to it, because it is a live case, but many journalists and editors, including the Drecun, which are mentioned in the publication TRZ and the criminal report of the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia (NUNS), for five years are in uncertainty - whether the accused or innocent of genocide and other serious crimes. After Drecunovog questions in parliament, and Vekarić faced with an avalanche of other allegations in the media. The question was, thus, the issue of funding and spending money in the TRZ-in, including the drafting of the publication The words and misdeeds, then the question of submitting regular report: Vukcevic and Vekaric US embassy on investigations Prosecutors Office, and the turn came, and then incriminating letters to the markets and addressed to foreign embassies and the OSCE Mission for alleged pressure on the Prosecutors Office of the MPs Drecun. The pressure is, in the opinion of people from the Prosecutors Office, and consists in setting up parliamentary questions. Step closer to the answers to these questions, we are not able to come, because Bruno Vekaric refused an interview for Politika. Thanks for the offer, the investigation of threats to my family and me is in progress and advised me to get out of focus for now, he told us Vekarić in response to our request to answer all questions and so clarify whether there are grounds to claims MPs Drecun. Similarly reacted and I prosecutor Vukcevic. His associate Jasna Sarcevic first occurred to us that since Vekarić not want to appear in public, interview to Politika give the prosecutor Vukcevic personally and recommended that the interview questions by e-mail, and will be posted to them. Since we sent nine questions for Vukcevic, there was no answer, but we are Jasna Sarcevic later said the phone and explained that the prosecutor changed his mind when he read the questions. Sarcevic said Vukcevic said that it is better for him to stay out of the public eye. So our questions remained unanswered. But what, in fact, Drecun accuses TRZ and Vekarić? The first question, from which it all began, is illegal appointment of a deputy prosecutor, said MP Fong Chong Pik policy. - Decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on the appointment of a Deputy Public Prosecutor No. 127 of 23 December 2003, he was appointed Vekarić Deputy District Public Prosecutor. The appointment was made contrary to the applicable provisions of the Law on Public Prosecution, or contrary to the provisions of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Public Prosecution, which entered into force on 1 March 2003. In particular, Article 15 of the Law on Amending Article 62 was amended to the then applicable law, so that this article reads: Public Prosecutor and Deputy Public Prosecutor elected by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the High Council of Justice. So, Bruno Vekaric could be appointed by the government, but elected by the National Assembly, and his appointment as Deputy District Public Prosecutor illegally - says Drecun. Besides, he adds, Vekarićnikad not entered the office of Deputy District Public Prosecutor, however, in terms of Article 66, paragraph 1 of the then applicable law considers that it is not selected. Drecun cites Article 66, paragraph 1, which reads: It is believed that the public prosecutor or deputy, not elected, without reasonable excuse, fails to take office within two months of the election. - For the deputy war crimes prosecutor Vekarić been selected by the State Prosecutorial Council on the election of Deputy Public Prosecutor, the number 119-01-253 / 09-1 from 15.12.2009. years. The decision was made on the basis of the currently valid Law on Public Prosecution. This decision was unlawful. Also, according to the Law on Public Prosecution, are the basic rules for the election of the deputy public prosecutor, and in Article 75 states: The National Assembly, upon the proposal of the State Prosecutorial Council, elected as a Deputy Public Prosecutor the person who was first elected to this position for a period of three years. Thus, the State Prosecutorial Council elects deputy public prosecutors, but can not choose one deputy who was first elected, but it does the National Assembly. A VEKARIĆ it was the first time since he was appointed deputy public prosecutor that was illegal, but the deputy war crimes prosecutor could not choose one State Prosecutorial Council, but only the National Assembly - Drecun explains this complex procedure. Furthermore, the decision of the SPC on the choice of the deputy public prosecutor, the number 119-01-253 / 09-1 from 15.12.2009, it is seen that the Vekarić elected, not from the position of Deputy District Attorney, but with a workplace consultant or prosecutorial assistant in TRZ, while all the other candidates elected from the ranks of deputy public prosecutors, unless another candidate who is elected from the ranks of lawyers, which is also illegal, underscores our source, adding that a group of MPs will file criminal charges against people who are abusing official position enabled Vekarić choice, as one of the worst attacks on Serbias legal system. Bruno Vekaric reluctant to talk about the publication, The words and misdeeds: Calling or Inciting to War Crimes in the media in Serbia 1991-1992, of which he is editor. In our question about who funded this book, Vekarić is briefly answered that this is the OSCE. - Publishers NGO Centre for transitional processes, a representative of CTP, which works closely with the TRZ publishing business, and remind you that TRZ prosecuting authority, not the record label, are Jasna Sarcevic-Jankovic and Snezana Malovic, who in 2004 . appointed Secretary of TRZ, and in 2007 was appointed as the Minister of Justice. CTP is registered at Zoran Djindjic Street No.12, apartment 22, in New Belgrade, and the owner of the apartment is Bruno Vekaric. CTP is reported to the BRA, and this is indicated on the letterhead of the NGO, and your email address [email protected], which is registered as a private address Vekarić. Phone and fax CTP is 30-82-673, which is a number that is installed in TRZ, who is a user of the number and pays the bills for its use - reminds Drecun. According to him, the books CTP since 2006 was led by Jagoda Jeličić, who until 2011 worked in the TRZ. - Because it is not re-registered, CTPs decision registry APR BU-BSL 17452/2011, of 20.6.2011. automatically deleted from the Register organizations APR. However, precisely this non-existent NGO, TRZ concludes the saizdavaštvu publication Words and misdeeds. The undersigned on behalf of TRZs Veselin Mrdak, on behalf of the CTP, the larger non-existent NGO, Jasna Sarcevic-Jankovic, media coordinator in the TRZ. This procedure war crimes prosecutor Vukcevic justify the fact that the CTP TRZ informed that during the regular procedure of appeal against the decision of the Agency - says the deputy. In addition, Drecun notes that the publication of The Word and misdeeds written using data on pre-trial proceedings, which are an official secret and must not be shared. This raises the question of funding the publication, or to whom, and how much are the fees were paid to write articles, warns Drecun. - CTP, which is co-editor, part of the funds for its operation received from Soros Open Society Fund . See, for example, a project proposal for the launch of the newspaper Pravda in transition - identification of war crimes, whose head is Open Society Fund and the editorial board of the journal transitional justice. The project holder Jasna Šarčevićkonkuriše at Open Society Fund for funding in the amount of 68,800 US dollars. By letter of CTP of March 10, 2008, signed by Jasna Sarcevic-Jankovic, the Fund for an Open Society sent a request for payment of approved funds totaling 527.841dinar, on behalf of project support CTP Justice in transition for the issuance of the second issue of the magazine in English. Funds are written in the letter, approved for the period from February 15 to March 2, 2008. Maybe because Vekarić not want all of this to speak, but should be responsible to check the connection of CTP with a TZR, their business relationship and the way of spending funds - warns Drecun, and states that the result of the action of CTP and TRZ -a tainted name, ruined careers, terrible slur thrown a hundred Serbian journalists, academics, prominent figures, without any criminal charges, without any judicial process. Drecun requires that competent organiprovere his allegations: - In particular, to examine whether there is abuse in the expenditure of financial resources in the TRZ coming from the RS budget or from donations. Did any business cooperation between WCP and the Center for transition processes, which was deleted from the Business Registers Agency on 20 June 2011 and whether their mutual business legal? Is Bruno Vekaric, editor of the study, The words and misdeeds, issued by the CTP in said publication released data from the preliminary investigation that the official secret? Bojan Zecheru ----------------------------------------- Statements about the crimes against Serbs in the warehouse In the warehouse of the War Crimes almost ten years languishing is extremely important documents: tens of thousands of untreated statements of people who came to Serbia from Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the war, the revealing Drecun. - Their statements collected by the representatives of the Committee for the collection of data on crimes against humanity and international law, as well as representatives of veterans associations and victims of war from the Republic of Serbian and all submitted TRZ-in for further work and actions. The original statements before police and judicial authorities of Serbian refugees have testified about their suffering and the suffering of their fellow citizens, often in their statements stating the names of the perpetrators of war crimes. TRZ forgot to these valuable statements and threw them into the warehouse to rot - says MP. Following the request of the War crimes (Shores) 03 / 4-3 Fig. No. 1348 / 11-4, dated 18 November 2011, the WCP has allowed police officers to the huge amount of material processed and start on the basis of revealing war crimes and identify the perpetrators, reminds Drecun: - These statements relate exclusively to the victims of Serbian nationality and the perpetrators of non-Serbs. Untimely processing and holding this precious material in the warehouse TRZ by the end of 2011, has greatly hampered the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed against Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the defense of ICTY indictees who have not had access to this documentation. Is disabled and adequate defense against a lawsuit filed by Croatia against Serbia and disabled, is preparing the appropriate counter-Serbian against Croatian. B. B. ----------------------------------------- Chilling message Bruno Vekaric In parallel with the emergence of media articles about the activities Vekarić and TRZ, the deputy prosecutor said, and the serious threats and creepy es-em-es messages that began to arrive to him and his family. These threats are really monstrous. So far we have had about seventy different types of threats, but so far these have not received ... One can really only be the product of an operation, I would say, maniacs, who mentioned my children, family, rape and so on. To me genuinely upset and worried, he explained Vekarić for the American Radio Free Europe. Deputy Serbian war crimes prosecutor said that created an atmosphere of lynching in which no longer feels safe and explained that the threats addressed to it can harm the fight for reform processes in Serbia. A small problem ... I think that this kind of performances that can cause some major damage to a battle that reforms in Serbia really succeed in the right way, the words VEKARIĆ Free Europe, along with the question of whether the attacks on him because of this event what they are doing some very serious cases, whether its because we entered the nest in Kosovo, whether to because we Srebrenica, Shtërpce ..., or is it just a personal view certain man who finds himself endangered and nicknamed . B. B. ----------------------------------------- From Nuremberg to Dubrovnik Publication Office of the War Crimes Words and misdeeds, whose editor Bruno Vekaric, is the result of an investigation against journalists, whose launch was discussed at the regional conference on media accountability for war crimes, held in Dubrovnik from 12 to 14 November 2007. years. As stated in the publication The words and misdeeds, set in the Dubrovnik Interuniversity Centre organized the Croatian Journalists Association (HND), the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia (NUNS) and Media Centre Sarajevo. They were joined by representatives of prosecutors offices, from Serbia (Office of the War Crimes) as well as from Croatian, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Rally support given by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the East-ist - Partnership Without Borders. Initiatives have been that for example, should be prosecuted creators of war propaganda, the leading men of media and prevent ideological journalism, a concept in which the media are used to the idea, the project. It is estimated that the punishment for illicit propaganda is not contrary to the realization of the human right to freedom of thought and commitment, because it is harmful propaganda, where journalists were identified as complicit in the commission of the offense, or instigators. As explained, this is a criminal offense, among other actions, contains two forms of execution. First is calling, and other incitement to commit offenses referred to in Article 141 to 144 of the SFRY Criminal Code (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes against civilians, war crimes against the wounded and sick and war crimes against prisoners of war). Journalists are, in fact, charged that, by inviting and encouraging influence the performance of certain actions, and express attitudes that create certain beliefs, concealment or misrepresentation of certain events and facts. Such communications with the public today call hate speech, but it remains unclear boundaries between criminal acts, especially so severe forms such as the genocide, and violations of the code of ethics. The discussions in Dubrovnik, were made direct parallels with the Third Reich, Hitler, Goebbels and their propagandists, who were tried before the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. B. B. ----------------------------------------- The Stalinist accusations Milovan Drecun - Following the recent setting up of the parliamentary questions to the Minister of Justice whether the deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric lawfully elected to that position, I exposed the brutal, unacceptable and illegal campaign of harassment, intimidation and threats by the Office of the War Crimes he says to our newspaper deputy Milovan Drecun. He warns that it violated Article 103 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, according to which a deputy enjoys immunity and can not be held criminally or other liability for the expressed opinion or vote in the performance of their parliamentary functions. - TRZ threaten me pre-trial procedure, trying to compromise me the fictional story of a criminal offense and no evidence linking my name with the alleged threats that are coming to the Prosecution. In the longer term I am subject to the Stalinist charges, media lynching and the worst of lies by individuals from war crimes prosecution. How serious intimidation and heavy pressure on me as a deputy, showing scandalous letter that was sent TRZ US Embassy and the OSCE, 14 June 2013. They reported me to snitch on each other and their appearances in parliament, apparently, can cause damage to the Prosecutors Office.
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