internationale situation - Serbien
04. April 2013
Although Serbia/Yugoslavia was and still is a generally conservative environment, I think that it could be said fascism, in a strict definition, was a relatively small movement within it. Early on there were proto-fascist groups, like the conspiratorial Black Hand in the pre-1918 period, and various fascistic groups in the 1920’s (ORJUNA and others). The first more ideologically well-defined fascist groups in Serbia and Yugoslavia appeared in the first half of 1930’s (not counting the Croatian Ustašas, which are a separate issue). These smaller groups united in 1935, and this is how the Yugoslav National Movement Zbor (Rally) was formed, led by a Serbian lawyer Dimitrije Ljotic’. (…) At the end of the 1980s, Slobodan Miloševic’, leader of the League of Communists of Serbia (the Communist Party of Serbia, which in 1990 with the reintroduction of the multi-party system became the Socialist Party of Serbia — SPS) started using Serbian nationalism as a way of getting more power, presumably with the goal of getting power in the whole of Yugoslavia and becoming a new Tito. Despite not being a Serbian nationalist personally and officially staying pro-Yugoslav, his politics legitimized nationalism and the beginning of the nineties saw the rise of openly nationalist and extreme right organizations. One of this organizations was the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), named after the old Radical party that existed before WW2. This party was founded in 1991 with the merger of the Serbian Chetnik Movement of Vojislav Šešelj and the group of Tomislav Nikolic’. They were numbers one and two of the party from the start until 2008, with Aleksandar Vuc(ic’ being number three. SRS presented itself as a Serbian chauvinist group that aimed at creating a Greater Serbia from territories it considered to be historically Serbian and ethnically cleansing all of the parts of Yugoslavia of the non-Serbian populations. Unlike Miloševic’, SRS supported a historically revisionist view in which the Chetniks were the real heroes of WW2. Although there were many rhetorical clashes between SRS and Miloševic’, it was well known that Miloševic’ considered SRS to be his “favorite opposition party”; SRS backed the Miloševic’ regime in every critical moment, even becoming a part of the ruling coalition towards the end of his rule. SRS had it’s own paramilitary troops that fought in the Yugoslav wars and counted Le Pen’s National Front amongst its political allies. At the end of the nineties, Le Pen even spoke at a SRS rally in Belgrade — despite the fact that National Front sent volunteers to fight on the Croatian side in the war a few years earlier. SRS was never part of the opposition coalitions (the rest of the opposition that toppled Miloševic’ was also predominantly nationalist but, unlike SRS, it was also pro-western), and never held large anti-Miloševic’ rallies. It was rumored that SRS was in fact founded by the Serbian section of UDBA. (…) The first groups of Nazi skinheads appeared in the nineties. In 1995, the Serbian Blood and Honor Division was founded; this group still exists and is well respected in the international neo-Nazi movement. In the nineties these thugs were known for their violence against Roma people. In 1997, they beat a thirteen year old Roma boy, Duško Jovanovic’, to death. Since 2000, new neo-Nazi groups have appeared, some of them trying to be more mainstream. One neo-Nazi who has achieved prominence is Goran Davidovic’; he tried to organize a mainstream political group but in the end went to live in Italy due to some legal problems connected to violence. After 2000, the neo-Nazi group Nacionalni stroj tried to organize a couple of rallies, but antifascist gatherings were held instead.
via theanarchistlibrary: History of Organized Fascism in Serbia
internationale situation - Serbien
04. April 2013
A 17-year-old Romani boy died in suspicious circumstances in Becej, #Serbia. The ERRC is urging the authorities to thoroughly investigate the #crime, including any possible racist motivation, after an initial hearing took place in Novi Sad today. The boy was found dead in the early hours on 17 March 2013, and the events surrounding his death are unclear. Initial information from the police classified the death as suspicious. Daily newspaper Blic reported on 21 March that the boy had been kicked to death by four persons, that they were skinheads and that he may have been targeted because he was Roma. The boy was severely beaten and left unconscious in a puddle. Some media reports said that the autopsy showed death by drowning. A 14-year-old boy, reported to be an ethnic Hungarian from Becej, has been arrested in connection with the attack. In a separate incident, a group of masked young men attacked a group of Roma in a Roma settlement in Kestenova Street, Bor, eastern Serbia on 21 March. The attackers used rocks, breaking the windows of houses and damaging cars belonging to Roma.
via errc.org: Roma Killed, Attacked in Serbia – ERRC Urges Full Investigation
internationale situation - Serbien
07. Oktober 2012
Dacic: “Scheiß auf die EU, wenn Gay-Parade Eintrittskarte ist”. Nervös wirkt dieser Tage Serbiens Regierungschef und Innenminister Ivica Dacic. Aus Sicherheitsgründen wurde die für Samstag geplante Schwulenparade abgesagt. Europäische Politiker äußerten ihre “Entrüstung”, manche sprachen von einer “politischen Entscheidung”. Da geht es um Menschenrechte, mahnen Brüssel und Washington, und um grundlegende Freiheiten, für die ein EU-Beitrittskandidat stehen sollte. Da platzte Dacic der Kragen. “Lasst mich doch endlich in Ruhe mit diesen Geschichten über Menschenrechte. Was für Menschenrechte, hier geht es um die Sicherheit der Menschen”, sagte er vor laufenden Kameras und fügte hinzu: “Scheiß auf die EU, wenn die Gay-Parade die Eintrittskarte ist.” Gleichzeitig forderte der Patriarch der serbisch-orthodoxen Kirche Irinej explizit vom Premier, die “tragikomische Parade der Scham” zu verbieten. Und Rechtsextremisten drohten den Schwulen: “Wir warten auf euch.” Während eine Großzahl serbischer Bürger die Entscheidung des Premiers begrüßt, kritisieren Menschenrechtler, dass die Staatsmacht wieder einmal “Hooligans” zurückgewichen sei.
via derstandard.at: Serbischer Premier: Lieber ohne EU als mit Schwulenparade
internationale situation - Serbien
09. April 2012
Immer wieder führt der Hass auf Roma in Osteuropa zu Gewalt - jetzt gab es schwere Krawalle in der serbischen Hauptstadt Belgrad. Roma-Familien sollen dort aus Elendsquartieren in neue Container umgesiedelt werden, doch die neuen Nachbarn wollen das nicht dulden.
Belgrad - Bei Roma-feindlichen Ausschreitungen hat es am Sonntag in einem Vorort der serbischen Hauptstadt Belgrad 14 Verletzte gegeben. Nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Beta protestierten mehrere Einwohner des südlichen Vororts Resnik gewaltsam gegen die Aufstellung von Wohncontainern für Roma-Familien.
Sie bewarfen demnach die Polizei mit Steinen und Flaschen. Zwölf Beamte und zwei Bewohner des Vororts wurden laut Beta verletzt, 15 Teilnehmer der gewaltsamen Proteste wurden festgenommen. Belgrads Bürgermeister Dragan Djilas verurteilte die Ausschreitungen.
internationale situation - Serbien
04. Oktober 2011
Am Wochenende sollte eine Gay Pride Parade in Belgrad stattfinden. Die Regierung hat sie verboten. Der Grund: Angeblich hätten Rechtsextreme mit Angriffen gedroht.
BELGRAD taz | Die tagelange Debatte war so heftig, als ginge es um den Untergang des Staates. Jeder hatte etwas dazu zu sagen, ob sich einige hundert Schwulen-Aktivisten für zwei Stunden in einem Park im Zentrum Belgrads versammeln und um den Block spazieren dürften, selbst der Nationale Sicherheitsrat.
Das Ergebnis: Die für den vergangenen Sonntag angemeldete Belgrader Gay Pride Parade hat wieder einmal nicht stattgefunden. Nicht weil die Staatsdiener etwas dagegen gehabt hätten, sondern weil die serbische Gesellschaft nicht reif dafür wäre, lautete die Begründung, und weil es Wichtigeres gebe als die Schwulenrechte im Staat gebe, wie z. B. den Kampf auf Leben und Tod der Serben im Kosovo.
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