Serbia Does Not Recognise Devotee
Serbia accused of inaction over religious attacks Friday, 8th February 2008. 12:03pmBy: Nick Mackenzie.SERBIA has been accused of doing little to prevent attacks on religious minorities in the country.
The claim comes from the Norwegian-based human rights monitor Forum 18 News Service. They cite the case of a Hare Krishna devotee who has been the subject of repeated knife attacks, but the Serbian authorities have been accused of doing nothing to help.Zivota Milanovic, the only Hare Krishna devotee in Jagodina, has suffered the attack from 2001, but Forum 18 say that the District Prosecutor’s Office has not taken any effective action in any of the cases.Because of the official inaction, he told Forum 18 that "I believe that I will be attacked again."
A lawyer familiar with the case commented to Forum 18 that "any other attack with more than three stabbings is treated as 'attempted murder'." Faced with the authorities' lack of interest in investigating and stopping these violent crimes, Milanovic has filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The ECHR has not yet decided whether the case is admissible.
Forum 18 comment that violent attacks such as these are not common, and usually happen against property rather than people. But they add that the number of attacks in recent years has increased and members of religious minorities are especially likely to be attacked.
http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1593
The claim comes from the Norwegian-based human rights monitor Forum 18 News Service. They cite the case of a Hare Krishna devotee who has been the subject of repeated knife attacks, but the Serbian authorities have been accused of doing nothing to help.Zivota Milanovic, the only Hare Krishna devotee in Jagodina, has suffered the attack from 2001, but Forum 18 say that the District Prosecutor’s Office has not taken any effective action in any of the cases.Because of the official inaction, he told Forum 18 that "I believe that I will be attacked again."
A lawyer familiar with the case commented to Forum 18 that "any other attack with more than three stabbings is treated as 'attempted murder'." Faced with the authorities' lack of interest in investigating and stopping these violent crimes, Milanovic has filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The ECHR has not yet decided whether the case is admissible.
Forum 18 comment that violent attacks such as these are not common, and usually happen against property rather than people. But they add that the number of attacks in recent years has increased and members of religious minorities are especially likely to be attacked.
http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1593
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