{"id":2128,"date":"2010-11-29T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content\/img\/thumbs\/img4cf38f50d5c44.jpg"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:04:21","slug":"police-apprehends-youth-initiative-for-human-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/police-apprehends-youth-initiative-for-human-rights-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Apprehends Youth Initiative for Human Rights&#8217; Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Police Apprehends Youth Initiative for Human  Rights\u2019 Activists<\/div>\n<div>01.04.2010.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Around  2 AM this morning the police apprehended nine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yihr.org\/\">Youth Initiative for  Human Rights\u2019 <\/a>(YIHR)  activists, who in the night between March 31st and  April 1st wrote in  red spray paint on the pavement of the plateau in  front of the Serbian  Parliament the following message: \u201cThat tough  foreign word genocide\u201d.  Some 30 activists intended the message for  Serbian MPs, apropos the  Declaration condemning the crime in Srebrenica,  which MPs passed on  March 30, 2010. Activists were released from Stari  Grad police station  five hours later. Sanitation workers removed the  message from the  pavement around 3.15 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The Declaration passed by the Serbian Parliament stops short of   mentioning that genocide over Bosniaks had been committed in Srebrenica.   Even though the very act of passing the resolution represents a step   forward compared to the atmosphere that permeated the Serbian society   five years ago, by omitting the word genocide a chance was missed for   that step to be more courageous and responsible. Serbian MPs have   relativized this crime, thus showing that they find short term political   goals to be more important than the future of Serbia and the Western   Balkans. Hate speech and relativization of crimes committed in the name   of Serbia dominated the parliamentary debate.<\/p>\n<p>With this act YIHR activists wish to remind the public that the issue   of facing the past is among the essential ones in the process of   transition and building a democratic society. Symbolic gestures of   apology or acknowledgement must not be done as acts of concession to the   European Union or with a view to obtaining financial aid. They cannot   be a subject to political trade-off and calculations based on public   opinion polls. Owning up to crimes, not coupled by relativization or   mitigation, needs to be Serbia\u2019s official policy, primarily for the sake   of the victims, as well as values society should be built upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy writing the message on the pavement in front of the Serbian   Parliament, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights\u2019 activists are sending   a clear message that there exist new generations who empathize with   victims and advocate better future of the region. The message thereby   sent is far more important compared to the pavement being defaced or   potential penalties imposed. By defacing the pavement we were saving   Serbia\u2019s face\u201d, said the Youth Initiative for Human Rights\u2019 Director   Maja Stojanovic upon her release from custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Apprehends Youth Initiative for Human Rights\u2019 Activists 01.04.2010. Around 2 AM this morning the police apprehended nine Youth Initiative for Human Rights\u2019 (YIHR) activists, who in the night between March 31st and April 1st wrote in red spray paint on the pavement of the plateau in front of the Serbian Parliament the following message: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}