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24. 08. 2005
MINISTER WARNS JOURNALISTS MAY BE SHOT
BELGRADE, August 24, 2005 (B92) – The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) warned of the dramatic situation that arose after the attacks of the capital investment minister Ilic and his media advisor Lazovic. ANEM protested strongly at the re-emergence of unacceptable and irresponsible rhetoric in the public arena in Serbia. Political opponents are now being attacked with the most vulgar language and described as traitors and foreign mercenaries. This rhetoric has barely stopped short of calls for lynching. Culture and Information Minister Dragan Kojadinovic has responded with a warning after the recent attack by Capital Investments Minister Velimir Ilic on journalists from RTV B92. Witnesses report that this attack included death threats aimed at the company’s director and editor-in-chief, Veran Matic, from Ilic’s media advisor, Petar Lazovic. “It seems to me that the next step is for someone to pull out a gun and shoot at a journalist, which happened in the Milosevic era,” Minister Kojadinovic told weekly Svedok. ANEM applauded the decision of the culture and information minister to dismiss his advisor, Bora Djordjevic, because of his unprecedented statement about B92 journalists. ANEM urges the democratic public and professional journalism and media associations to express solidarity with journalists and media who are subject to attacks and threats. The Association also calls on the appropriate state bodies to urgently take appropriate measures to prevent the real danger of which Minister Kojadinovic warns, and to halt the return to the period of harshest media repression as practiced under the Milosevic regime.
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