New Neo-Nazi Threats in Serbia

31 March 2006

The internet forum of the �Stormfront� neo-Nazi organization in Serbian language again carried threats and calls for concrete direct action against the activists of several NGOs in Serbia.

The participants in the forum exchange the addresses and home phone number of Biljana Kovacevic � Vuco, Director of the YUCOM Committee of Human Rights Lawyers; Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia; and Natasa Kandic, President of the Humanitarian Law Centre.

The forum is used to make plans for over the phone harrassment of Biljana Kovacevic-Vuco and exchange of advise and tips how to do it and remain anonymous. The forum also lists many calls for direct action against Kovacevic-Vuco, Kandic and Biserko.

"If you want to engage in over-the-phone harrassment, use public phones, a different one every time! Send your e-mails from an internet cafe, never from home! If you want to ambush them, cover your face and wear indistinguishing clothes! Visit the public gatherings they organize and leave your marks in the form of rotten eggs, tear-gas, baloons filled with coloured ink, yoghurt, paint, etc�, wrote one of the participants in the forum.

One participant�s remark that �phone-harrassment is too mild and stronger action is needed�, got the response that �...there are people already working on that problem�. All participants demanding physical action are invited for a private communication, to avoid that such agreements become public.

A group of Serbian neo-nazis that uses the Stormfront Forum, became widely known two years ago, when they published a list of Jews living in Serbia, with the message that �they should all be killed�. The list included a number of prominent activists and artists in Serbia. Last year, the members of the organization covered Belgrade with posters calling for a boycott of B92 Radio and Television for its �anti-Serb actions�. The posters and slogans carried anti-Semitic messages.

OneWorld Platform SEE doesn�t carry the link to Stormfront Forum to avoid possible consequences of the calls for violence and hatespeech expressed there.