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Serbian Media Face Criminal Lawsuit
Belgrade | 09 July 2009 |
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"Since Slobodan Milosevic wasn't a magician, he had his team of assistants and executors in manipulating Serbia public sphere," Gace said, stressing that the directors of Serbian media outlets during the Milosevic era were state officials at the same time.
Among media outlets targeted by NUNS are Radio Television Belgrade, Radio Television Novi Sad and the Serbian dailies Politika and Vecernje Novosti.
Among media outlets targeted by NUNS are Radio Television Belgrade, Radio Television Novi Sad and the Serbian dailies Politika and Vecernje Novosti.
NUNS officials claim that some journalists and media outlets incited war crimes in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and the 1990s, abusing their public influence and thus creating a psychological climate that was conducive to war propaganda.
Gace added that the aim was not to point the finger at particular screws of the system machine but to defend the dignity of the journalist profession by finding and punishing those who deserve it.
Gace added that the aim was not to point the finger at particular screws of the system machine but to defend the dignity of the journalist profession by finding and punishing those who deserve it.
Unlike the case of Rwandan journalists involved in genocide, the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, never indicted journalists from the former Yugoslavia for their wartime reporting, despite Bosnian journalists' associations suggestions after the 1992-1995 in Bosnia, according to an ISN Security Watch report.
Serbia's Special War Crimes Prosecutor's Office has launched a preliminary inquiry into the role of journalists in inciting war crimes in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, focusing on reporting on atrocities committed in Vukovar, Croatia and Zvornik, Bosnia.
"We want to be completely clear that we as prosecutors want to find elements of possible crime, which would be consequently taken to another level - a criminal proceeding," ISN Security Watch quoted Prosecutor's Office Spokesperson Bruno Vekaric as saying, adding that the Prosecutor's Office was in the possession of the wartime archives of Serbian National Television, RTS.
2009-07-10 04:18:01