Youth Initiative for Human Rights Receives Threats

8. 6. 2010. On June 7, 2010, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) received a threatening letter bidding that members of “pro-fascist organizations Youth Initiative for Human Rights and My Initiative movement”, who partook in “Belgrade youth march in so-called memory of the youth murdered in Tuzla”, should leave their place of residence within a year and move “to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so as to feel the benefits of human rights and other rights essential to every human being”. The letter signed with “The Balck Hand – Apis” was sent from Australia.

In the opening part of the letter it is stressed that “all participants in the march will be tried by the summary court for failing to fulfill the task of their relocation, while as of June 15, 2010, they will be surveilled until they have completed their task”. “If there are minors among them, then their parents must also leave Serbia and with the participant find abode in FB&H”, quotes the letter, underscoring that the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) was falsely accused of shelling the Gate of Youth in Tuzla on the 25th of May, 1995, “while that was in fact carried out by the forces stationed in Tuzla under the command of American CIA, British SAS and NATO forces, with a view to blaming Serbs for the alleged massacre”.

Apropos marking the 15th anniversary of the massacre at Tuzla Gate, on May 25, 2010, YIHR organized a symbolic march along three sections of the Belgrade – Tuzla road, which ended in laying flowers at the Gate. On the 25th of May, 1995, a shell fired from VRS position on the Ozren Mountain killed 71 person on the promenade in the town of Tuzla, mostly youth and children. YIHR reported the case to appropriate authorities within the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP).