Serbia, which according to the International Court of Justice violated its obligation to prevent the Srebrenica massacre, has never accepted the rulings of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or the ICJ which both deemed the massacre over five July days an act of genocide. The Srebrenica massacre, the worst mass killing on European soil since World War Two, remains the most popular topic of Serbian revisionists. Pandurevic called his 2015 book Life Can be Defended by Truth, while Fikret Abdic, leader of a short-lived breakaway Bosniak region who spent 10 years in a Croatian jail for war crimes, penned a 2016 memoir called From Idol to War Criminal and Back. Photo: EPA-EFE/KOCA SULEJMANOVICīosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and former senior Bosnian Serb official Biljana Plavsic published books about the war, as did notorious Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, wartime Bosnian Serb parliament speaker Momcilo Krajisnik and former Bosnian Serb army officer Vinko Pandurevic. Posters plastered by a far-right organisation honoring Ratko Mladic in Belgrade. The kind of conspiracy theories they promote, said Ivana Zanic of the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre, “serve only to further confuse the public, which is insufficiently informed about the conflicts of the 1990s, and prevent it from learning the truth.”Ĭonvicted in court, ‘exonerated’ in print
While there have been no calls for the books to be banned, rights advocates say their promotion amounts to promoting war criminals as heroes, a phenomenon witnessed across the former Yugoslavia.
Indeed, the 1992-95 war, which killed 100,000 people, spawned a whole new genre of books by or about war criminals and which pour scorn on the established facts of the conflict. “I have proven that all those rulings are unlawful,” said Seselj, who was convicted in April of instigating persecution and inhumane acts by United Nations appeals judges in The Hague.īut the firebrand ultranationalist, who was released in 2014 having spent 12 years in detention, is not the only convicted war criminal with a new book to peddle. The book fair, which opens on Sunday, will include Seselj’s latest book, offering readers another denial that the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica constituted genocide, as a number of international criminal trials established it did. The borders of Serbia may not have grown as Seselj wanted them to, but his publishing house will spread its wings at this year’s edition of the prestigious Belgrade Book Fair, where organisers have shifted two other publishers from their allocated spots to make room for Greater Serbia.
The movement's ideology is mainly influenced by Nikolaj Velimirović, Dimitrije Ljotić and the Yugoslav National Movement Zbor.That convicted Serbian war criminal Vojislav Seselj never gave up his dream of a Greater Serbia is perhaps evident in the name he gave to his publishing house – ‘Greater Serbia’. While swearing allegiance to the Serbian nation and to the Serbian Orthodox religion, Obraz is committed to a struggle against those groups which it views as enemies of the Orthodox Serbian people, such as " Zionists (which they also include Kabbalists, Manichaeists, Freemasons and Illuminati as part of the wider Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory), Ustashe (mainly Croatian nationalists), Muslim extremists (mainly Bosniak nationalists), Albanian terrorists (mainly Albanian nationalists), false pacifists (mainly human rights activists and NGOs in Serbia), political partisans, sectarians (religious sects), perverts (which they include pedophiles and the LGBT population), drug addicts and criminals (mainly Serbian mafia)". On 12 June 2012 Obraz was officially banned by the Constitutional Court of Serbia. The organization is classified as clero-fascist by several organizations and government institutions, including the government of the Serbian province of Vojvodina and the Serbian Ministry of Interior.
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