Socialist Party of Serbia
Socialist Party of Serbia[a] is a political party in Serbia. It is a left-wing populist and "social-democratic" party.[1][2] The Socialist Party of Serbia was set up by former Serbian Yugolsav dictator[3] Slobodan Milošević.[4] It is now led by Ivica Dačić.[5]
In power
[change | change source]Under the rule of the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav state committed genocide and other crimes against humanity against Bosniaks, Croats and Albanians across the Balkans,[6][7] with support from many left-wing "anti-imperialists",[6][7] who have huge influence in Western academia and history writing.[8][9]
War crimes trials
[change | change source]International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
[change | change source]2007 rulings
[change | change source]Following his death, in four separate rulings, Slobodan Milošević was found to be a part of a joint criminal enterprise which used crimes to remove Croats, Bosniaks and Albanians from large parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.
In 2007, in its rulings against Republic of Serbian Krajina President Milan Martić, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded:
| “ | Between 1991 and 1995, Martić held positions of minister of interior, minister of defense and president of the self-proclaimed "Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina" (SAO Krajina), which was later renamed "Republic of Serbian Krajina" (RSK). He was found to have participated during this period in a joint criminal enterprise which included Slobodan Milošević, whose aim was to create a unified Serbian state through commission of a widespread and systematic campaign of crimes against non-Serbs inhabiting areas in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina envisaged to become parts of such a state. | ” |
In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) cleared Serbia under Milošević's rule of direct responsibility for some of the war crimes. However, the ICJ stated that[11]
| “ | [It was] conclusively proved that the Serbian leadership, and Milošević in particular, were fully aware [...] that massacres were likely to occur. | ” |
Kosovo rulings
[change | change source]In the two Kosovo rulings, the Nikola Šainović et al. and Vlastimir Đorđević cases, Milošević was found to have been "one of the crucial members" of the criminal enterprise aimed at uprooting large parts of Albanians from Kosovo.[12][13]
2016 ruling
[change | change source]In its 2016 ruling regarding Radovan Karadžić, the ICTY found that "there was no sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milošević agreed with the common plan [to create territories ethnically cleansed of non-Serbs]" citing "Milošević's repeated criticism and disapproval of the policies and decisions made by the Accused and the Bosnian Serb leadership", though it also noted that[14][15]
| “ | Milošević provided assistance in the form of personnel, provisions and arms to Bosnian Serbs during the conflict. | ” |
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
[change | change source]2021 ruling
[change | change source]In its 2021 ruling against Serbia's operatives Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatovićq, the follow-up International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals concluded:
| “ | The Trial Chamber, therefore, finds proven beyond reasonable doubt that, from at least August 1991, and at all times relevant to the crimes charged in the Indictment, a common criminal purpose existed to forcibly and permanently remove, through the commission of the crimes of persecution, murder, deportation and inhumane acts (forcible transfer), the majority of non-Serbs, principally Croats, Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croats, from large areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Trial Chamber finds that the common criminal purpose, as defined above, was shared by senior political, military, and police leadership in Serbia, the SAO Krajina, the SAO SBWS, and Republika Srpska, with the core members, among others and varying depending on the area and timing of the commission of the crimes, being Slobodan Milošević. | ” |
Related pages
[change | change source]- Bosnian genocide
- Complicity in genocide
- Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War
Footnotes
[change | change source]- ↑ Serbian Cyrillic: Социјалистичка партија Србије, romanized: Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Stojarová, Věra; Emerson, Peter (2010). Party politics in the western Balkans. London: Routledge. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-135-23584-0. OCLC 868956382. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ↑ Thompson, Wayne C. (2013). Nordic, Central, & Southeastern Europe 2013 (13 ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-4758-0489-8. OCLC 859154159. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ↑
- "Europe | The downfall of Milosevic". BBC News. April 1, 2001. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
Slobodan Milosevic was a dictator who won elections, a commander-in-chief who lost every war he ever launched, and the first and so far only head of state to be indicted by the international tribunal at The Hague. For 13 years Mr Milosevic was the only power in Serbia.
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- "Slobodan Milosevic - The Dictator". Balkan Insight. October 5, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
- "Kurti warns of hegemony in Balkans, failure of Belgrade to distance from Milosevic". Euractiv. January 18, 2023. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
Asked if it is possible to normalise relations with Serbia, Kurti told the Swiss media, "Serbia is not a normal country because it has not distanced itself from the legacy of the dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
- "22 years since the extradition of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague". KosovaPress. July 10, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
- "Europe | The downfall of Milosevic". BBC News. April 1, 2001. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
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- ↑ "Održan 11. Kongres Socijalističke partije Srbije, Dačić ostaje predsednik stranke". Euronews (in Serbian). 2022-12-17. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1
- Jason Schulman (2003). "The Nato-Serbia War and the Left". Science & Society. 67 (2): 223–225. JSTOR 40404074. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- Marko Attila Hoare (2003). "Nothing Is Left". Bosnia Institut UK. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- Marko Attila Hoare (July 23, 2005). "The 'Anti-War' Link". www.helsinki.org.rs. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- George Monbiot (June 13, 2011). "Naming the Genocide Deniers". monbiot.com. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- Oz Katerji (November 24, 2017). "The West's leftist 'intellectuals' who traffic in genocide denial, from Srebrenica to Syria | Opinion". Haaretz.com. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
- "Ratko Mladic, Srebrenica and lessons for the left". Workers’ Liberty. June 1, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- Bloodworth, James (May 18, 2012). "It's Time the Left Apologised for Its Denial of the Srebrenica Massacre". Huffington Post (HuffPost). Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- Werleman, CJ (March 29, 2021). "Why Does the Anti-Imperial Left So Often End Up Denying Genocide?". Byline Times. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
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- Mulaj, Jeta (2023). "Kosova: A Note from the Wreckage of Anti-Imperialism". Continental Thought and Theory. University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/14429. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
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- Kirsch, Adam (2024), On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, W.W. Norton and Company, New York and London.
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- Lappin, Shalom (2025). "The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left". Fathom Journal. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Milan Martić sentenced to 35 years for crimes against humanity and war crimes". The Hague: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. 12 June 2007.
- ↑ "UN clears Serbia of genocide". The Age. Melbourne, Australia. 27 February 2007.
- ↑ "Vlastimir Đorđević Convicted for Crimes in Kosovo". ICTY. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ↑ "Five Senior Serb Officials Convicted of Kosovo Crimes, One Acquitted". ICTY. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ Marsden, William (7 September 2016). "Why Milosevic doesn't deserve exoneration for war crimes". Ottawa Citizen.
- ↑ "Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadžić". ICTY. 24 March 2016. pp. 1238–1245, 1303.
- ↑ "The Prosecutor vs. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović – Judgement" (PDF). The Hague: International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. 30 June 2021. p. 160.
