6 minutes agoTromp: Vuciq has not distanced himself from Milosevic's policies
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Serbia continues to deny the past by refusing responsibility for crimes committed during the 1990s. The lawmaker at Amsterdam University, Nevenka Tromp, says that since Milosevic's time, the political mentality in Serbia has not changed. She says current Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq knows very well about crimes that [...]
The lawmaker at Amsterdam University, Nevenka Tromp, says that since Milosevic's time, the political mentality in Serbia has not changed.
She says current Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq knows very well about the crimes committed in Kosovo because during the period 1998-2000 he held the post of Information Minister.
Serbia's <x0) state policy and its policy of leadership when facing the past do not only involve things that have happened to Kosovo by Serbian politicians, who have issued orders that Serbian security forces commit atrocities in order to achieve its goal of extending Serbia's borders. Since Milosevic's time there has been no change in the mentality of Serbian politicians. Remember that current President Aleksandar Vuciq has been Minister of Information during the Kosovo war. So he was making his career as a politician by selling half the truth to the public to cover up the motives of Serbian politics in the 1990s. Milosevic's political slogan was to make Serbia larger again. And what we see now, after three decades, that Serbia is not even one inch bigger than it was. And in a way, it's not just a lesson for the region, but it's probably a lesson for the whole world that these types of ideologies simply create chaos, and absolutely do not bring stability and prosperity”, she says.
The country's prime minister, Albin Kurti, has indicated that they are preparing Serbia to be charged with crimes committed during the war in Kosovo.
However, Nevenka Tromp says this is not a simple issue since Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations.
“is not an easy way to indict Serbia for crimes committed. Kosovo as a state is no part of the United Nations, yet in 2019, Gambia has filed a lawsuit in the JND in the name of the Myanmar people, and recently South Africa has filed a lawsuit for genocide in the NND on behalf of Palestinians who are also de facto states. The UN system simply shows that Kosovo as a de facto state can find a third UN member state and file genocide indictment against Serbia”, Tromp says
According to the Fund for Humanitarian Law, about 13,500 people have been killed in the last war in Kosovo, while more than 1,600 remain missing.
