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(5 years ago)The Supreme Court in Belgrade has refused to convict Minister Alexander Voulin of using the insulting term “siptar” for the Albanian minority living in Serbia. Thus, the court has legalised the irreversive term against Albanians. From the US Embassy in Belgrade, they have said that using derogatory names to describe minority groups causes risks and [...]
The Albanian MP in Serbia's Parliament, Shaip Kamberi, has said that the Court has already given judicial power to institutionalisation of hate speech, failure and xenophobia to Albanians in general, those in Serbia in particular.
The American Embassy's media official in Serbia, James Hagengruber, has said that American courts do not say what terms are legal or insulting, but that, according to him, using deroguber names for minorities brings risks.
“Freedom of expression is a fundamental value of the United States. Our Congress does not law what kinds of speeches are deemed offensive and our courts do not say which terms are legal or offensive. But we know from our national experience about the dangers, pain and continuing divisions caused by insulting speeches, in particular by using derogatory names to describe minority groups”, it is said in response to Express.
The Albanian National Council in Serbia has indicted Minister Alexander Volin for using the insulting term “siptar” for Albanians living in Serbia.
The Supreme Court in Belgrade has singled out the Albanian National Council's indictment as unfounded and thus granted judicial power to institutionalise the language of hatred against Albanians in Serbia.
Albanian MP in the Serbian Parliament, Shaip Kamberi, has delivered an Albanian speech yesterday, saying that the Supreme Court's decision in Belgrade to legalise the term “siptar” has not occurred even in Slobodan Milosevic's time.
This has not happened even at the time of Slobodan Milosevic's regime, which killed, violated and expelled Albanians, calling them Albanac. But, in the silence of the democratic world, Aleksandar Vuciqi's Serbia is returning to the time of Aleksandar Rankoviq, known as the last period of official and public use of the term “shiptar”. Respected colleagues, the Supreme Court's decision in Belgrade is also a highly dangerous precedent for minorities in Serbia, but also throughout the Western Balkans. It creates a legitimate standard for hate speech against minorities not only in Serbia, but also in the Western Balkans”, Kamberi has said, among other things.
