“Serbia to take fight to neo-Nazis”

Professor Ljubisa Rajic says that an intensive political battle must be fought against fascism, including against its sympathizers within the state apparatus. “People in Serbia have to be made to understand clearly what fascists, clero-fascists and Nazis are, and what they mean to the current and future Serbia,” Rajic said. “Serbia to take fight to neo-Nazis” On the same day that Public Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic proposed that the Constitutional Court ban the work of the National Formation political organization, the Vojvodina League of Social-Democrats sent a draft law to the national parliament calling for the outlawing of neo-Nazi and fascist organizations and the use of insignia associated with such groups. This would include any activity considered to be an organized or spontaneous public gathering of such organizations that propagated hate speak and the promotion of intolerance towards people, regardless of nationality, minority, political or personal orientation. The draft law envisages fines of EUR 60 for individuals and EUR 120-12,000 for organizations who participate in such events. Rajic said that National Formation was an organization that had come into the limelight recently with its attacks in Novi Sad last year, adding that its website propounding its ideology was also very provocative. “The idea of banning them is not enough. Firstly, they are part of the international Blood & Honor organization, a Nazi organization. Secondly, this will only take them out of the public eye, but they will be able to continue their work in other ways,” the professor warned. “A number of NGOs and various parties have been calling for such organizations to be outlawed for years, and for a political conflict with their ideas to be launched,” he explained. “It seems that we are starting to see the results now, but I think that it what is most important is that the amount of violence on the streets of out cities, our schools, our companies has crossed the line of tolerance,” Rajic said. “What they were once able to do in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Croatia, they can do no more, so they’re doing it here,” he said. “Secondly, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) also has an interest in cleaning up its past of the 1990s, because such organizations were ubiquitous in the 1990s during the war, and now during the current economic crisis, and they need to deal with it,” Rajic said. “I think that the SPS has a number of people that sincerely oppose Nazism and fascism and that these people have become active at a time when the work of these groups is clearly putting restrictions on Serbia’s image abroad, and all that together is carrying this campaign. Someone has finally had enough,” Rajic said.

“Serbia to take fight to neo-Nazis”

On the same day that Public Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanović proposed that the Constitutional Court ban the work of the National Formation political organization, the Vojvodina League of Social-Democrats sent a draft law to the national parliament calling for the outlawing of neo-Nazi and fascist organizations and the use of insignia associated with such groups.

This would include any activity considered to be an organized or spontaneous public gathering of such organizations that propagated hate speak and the promotion of intolerance towards people, regardless of nationality, minority, political or personal orientation.

The draft law envisages fines of EUR 60 for individuals and EUR 120-12,000 for organizations who participate in such events.

Rajić said that National Formation was an organization that had come into the limelight recently with its attacks in Novi Sad last year, adding that its website propounding its ideology was also very provocative.

“The idea of banning them is not enough. Firstly, they are part of the international Blood & Honor organization, a Nazi organization. Secondly, this will only take them out of the public eye, but they will be able to continue their work in other ways,” the professor warned.

“A number of NGOs and various parties have been calling for such organizations to be outlawed for years, and for a political conflict with their ideas to be launched,” he explained.

“It seems that we are starting to see the results now, but I think that it what is most important is that the amount of violence on the streets of out cities, our schools, our companies has crossed the line of tolerance,” Rajić said.

“What they were once able to do in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Croatia, they can do no more, so they’re doing it here,” he said.

“Secondly, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) also has an interest in cleaning up its past of the 1990s, because such organizations were ubiquitous in the 1990s during the war, and now during the current economic crisis, and they need to deal with it,” Rajić said.

“I think that the SPS has a number of people that sincerely oppose Nazism and fascism and that these people have become active at a time when the work of these groups is clearly putting restrictions on Serbia’s image abroad, and all that together is carrying this campaign. Someone has finally had enough,” Rajić said.