Govt. seeks to criminalize participation in wars abroad

The government will discuss amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that would treat participation of Serbian citizens in wars abroad as a criminal act.

Izvor: Danas

Thursday, 14.08.2014.

11:15

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Govt. seeks to criminalize participation in wars abroad

He said that in case the government adopts the bill, his initiative for sanctioning "mercenaries" could be soon added to the Criminal Procedure Code, Tanjug reported.

According to Ljajić, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and the entire Serb Progressive Party (SNS) would back the proposition so there would be no formal obstacles to the adoption of the announced amendments.

The bill of amendments which the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) headed by Ljajić has been trying to include in the agenda for several years now envisages prison sentences of 2 to 12 years for organizers, while the volunteers themselves could receive a prison sentence of 1 to 5 years for their criminal activity.

Nevertheless, Ljajić said that these changes are still just proposals and that his party is ready to leave the initiative for the amendment adoption to the government.

“We have tried to push the proposition according to which 'dogs of war' would be deprived of their Serbian citizenship, but this is not in keeping with the Constitution. Therefore, the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code seem to be the right path, whereby participation in clashes in other countries would be treated as a grave criminal act,” Ljajić said.

The SDPS parliament caucus proposed on July 7 to amend the criminal code and penalize recruitment and involvement in foreign wars by a prison sentence of up to 12 years.

Since it has been noticed that a certain number of Serbian citizens have joined foreign paramilitary forces in groups or on their own, for financial or other reasons, and then returned to Serbia to recruit others to commit the same crime, it is necessary to amend the criminal code by defining a special criminal act, the proposal says.

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