Stop Hatred and Violence

To:  Serbian authorities

Organizations which support and promote Nazism, racism and chauvinism are becoming ever more present and more aggressive in Serbia. Unlawful assemblies, in which they are spreading hatred and intolerance, are being held daily and the police department is not banning them. Websites whose contents represent criminal offenses („Krv i čast“ (http://bhserbia.org/uvod.htm), „Stormfront“(http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=183799), „Nacionalni stroj“(http://www.nacionalnistroj.org/), „1389“(http://www.1389.org.yu/), „Naši“, itd.) are being tolerated.

The state and especially its highest institutions have got to realize that the actions of these organizations are directed against it, and that the state must be defended. The state has sanctioned legal instruments for this defense and has to implement them.

The citizens of Serbia strongly demand that the competent authorities, especially the deputies in the National Assembly, public prosecutor's office, courts, police and the President, within their jurisdiction:

-Commence a criminal prosecution of individuals who are inducing and spreading racial, national and religious hatred and intolerance;
-Prohibit public gatherings at which racial, national and religious hatred and intolerance is promoted, and human rights of opponents are breached;
-Urgently adopt laws and other legal acts which prohibit discrimination;
-Ratify the Convention and the Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalization of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems of the European Council.

The state has to be defended, even when its officials do not have enough strength for doing that. The defense of the state must not be in the hands of private citizens. This state has allowed to be attacked by private individuals and noninstitutional groups, and has done virtually nothing about it.

The legal means of defense are important and necessary. But they are not sufficient. Nazi, racist and chauvinistic verbal violence, which is turning into a threat of physical violence, has to be stopped by legal, political and other democratic means.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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