Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

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Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Instigating Racial, Religious and National Hatred,Discord and Intolerance“Whoever instigates or exacerbates national, racialor religious hatred or intolerance among the peoplesand ethnic communities living in Serbia shall bepunished by imprisonment of six months to fiveyears.If the criminal act specified in para. 1 hereof iscommitted by coercion, maltreatment, compromisingsecurity, exposure to derision of national, ethnic orreligious symbols, damage to other persons’ goods,desecration of monuments, memorials or graves, theoffender shall be punished by imprisonment of oneto eight years.Whoever commits the criminal act specified in para.1 and 2 hereof by abuse of position or authority, orif these offences result in riots, violence or other graveconsequences to co-existence of peoples, nationalminorities or ethnic groups living in Serbia, shall bepunished for the offence specified in para. 1 hereofby imprisonment of one to eight years, and for theoffence specified in para. 2 hereof by imprisonmentof two to ten years. 834Four Assaults on Zivota Milanovic, Brahman ofHare Krishna in JagodinaZivota Milanovic was born on August 16, 1961 in the village of Belica,15 kilometers from Jagodina, where he resides today 835 . He temporarilyresides in his uncle’s apartment in Jagodina. He is free artist and is currentlyunemployed. He is member of Hindu Vaishnava religious community since1984 836 . Today he is Brahman of Hare Krishna religious community withtwo initiations. This religious community was registered as back as at thetime of the SFRY, in the 1980s. Its center was first in Ljubljana, then in834 Criminal Code of Serbia, Article 317, see above under 611835 Report on incident in the “Zivota Milanovic case” of November 18 th , 2005, available in the Initiative’sdocumentation836 Ibid154
Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Zagreb, whereas today it is based in Subotica 837 . Zivota Milanovic’s religiouschoice is known to everyone in Jagodina as he was already target of seriousassaults, swears and mockery on the street. Priests of the Serbian OrthodoxChurch in Jagodina also mock his religious choice. Zivota Milanovic toldInitiative’s investigators about this: “Even the archpriest of the SerbianOrthodox Church in Jagodina spits thrice when he passes by me on thestreet” 838 .Zivota Milanovic told Initiative’s investigators that first serious problemsstarted in 2001. It was then that he started receiving telephone calls andthreats that he would be killed, that he was spreading the “Gypsy religion”and that he would be put on fire along with the house in which he lived 839 .The persons who called him then presented themselves as “Serbianknights” and “guards of the fatherland’s honor” 840 . According to him, onenight in September that year, he went out from his uncle’s apartment inJagodina to throw the garbage. Three young men waited for him in frontof the building and inflicted aggravated assaults and batteries with baseballsticks 841 . Ten days later, when he was entering his own building in Jagodina,Zivota noticed one young man behind him and another two who stood atthe end of the stairway. It was very dark in the corridor, so he could notdiscern their faces well. The young man behind him took out a knife andattacked Zivota, who got cut on his head and chest while he was tryingto enter his apartment. The mentioned person then came to him whilehe was lying at the entrance to his apartment, cut a lock of his hair andtook the box with his rosaries 842 . Soon after, Zivota called the police andreported what happened. He only got advice from the police inspector whocame on the spot “that he has to install a sensor at his entrance that wouldturn on automatically when someone gets in” 843 . During the conversationZivota Milanovic had with inspectors in the Jagodina police, the theme wasmainly the Hindu Vaishnava religious community, i.e., questions on howmany followers it has, where the center is, who is financing it, etc. 844 Theperpetrators of these criminal acts have not been found yet.837 Ibid838 Ibid839 Ibid840 Ibid841 Ibid842 Ibid843 Ibid844 Ibid155
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