On the occasion of recent publications by the 'Father Of The Serb Nation', the director of Belgrade's Helsinki Committee for Human Rights analyses Ćosić's contribution to an unreconstructed version of Serbia's recent past that continues to hold sway. 

A virtual financial world and virtual financial services were created, and it ended in catastrophe. Someone privatized the profit and simply left.

Those who actually read the declaration, and I doubt that many will try, will immediately see that this is a common political programme. Not merely a coalition agreement, which in any case already exists, but a common ideological document. In other words, these two parties are uniting.

And has anyone ever prevented us from arresting and trying Mladić? Who has tried to stop us? We remain perplexed why they insist so much on Mladić, and never ask ourselves why we ourselves didn’t arrest him when we had him here - for we did have him, and indeed I think we still do.

The latest Kosovo formula of the Serbian state representatives - ‘Let’s be realistic, let’s do the impossible!’ - is in fact nothing but a swindle and a throwing of dust into the eyes of the population, designed to divert its attention from everyday problems.

Serbia is returning to the political (or state) and national interests that used to determine its diplomatic and other aims in the 1990s, thus giving rise to a suspicion as to whether those aims were ever abandoned.

It is not impossible for this crisis to end without the guarantee being activated. This, however, does not justify the government’s empty promises.

The Balkans and Turkey are a space on the borders of Europe marking a cultural encounter with the oriental. Constituted as an undeclared enemy, this object of anxiety acts as a catalyst for collective cohesion, eliciting mythic narratives calling for exclusion from the symbolic realm of the European community.

When the daily Kurir published Milorad Ulemek’s yokelish letter, in which a man convicted of the worst crimes joined an organized attack on Sonja Biserko, the final link was found – the importance of The Helsinki Committee’s brave act really became clear.

Acid comment by Belgrade's best-known civil-rights lawyer on the defence put forward by former FRY chief of staff Momcilo Perišic when his trial started before the Hague tribunal

Montenegro and Macedonia stabbed The Hourglass in the back.

The second part of the eminent Serbian civil-rights lawyer's authoritative account of the conspiracy that led to the former Yugoslavia breaking up in the way that it did. By Srđa Popović

Authoritative account of the conspiracy by Slobodan Miloševic, Borisav Jović and Veljko Kadijević to break up the former Yugoslavia and carve out a Great Serbia. By Srđa Popović  (Part two follows) 

The organizations “Krv i čast” and “Nacionalni stroj”, supported by the local branch of Stormfront are announcing a gathering on October 11th, on the plateau in front of the Faculty of Philosophy, and they are calling it “Serbian March 2008”. These organizations are well known for advocating an ideology of racial supremacy, glorifying Nazism and anti-Semitism, preaching about “the Aryan race”, “pure nation” and publishing works of Nazi leaders, such as speeches of Adolf Hitler.