Serbian Helsinki Committee Criticized the Government over November 9

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (HOPS) criticized the Serbian Government over its failure to mark November 9, the International Day of Fight Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism. Anti-Fascism "What does Serbia do today, when over 40 countries in the world – including the immediate neighbourhood – marks the pogrom that took place 66 years ago, to the day? What does Serbia do today, when millions of people remember the Kristallnacht”, the symbolic start of the Holocaust?” asked the public release issued by HOPS yesterday. HOPS estimates that the “official politics in Serbia are dominated by dogmatic and anti-modern ideologies on the left and the right of the political spectrum, their opposition to the concept of human and minority rights being the common denominator for both.” HOPS also objects the media promotion of intellectuals that advocate the ideas represented by fascist collaborators in occupied Serbia in the WWII, but also the prohibition of NGOs financed by “Sorosz-ian, Jewish lobby”. The Committee also criticized the Serb Orthodox Church, for its canonization of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic, who considered Adolf Hitler the “greatest statesman of the 20th Century”. "Last, but not the least, hundreds of publications and reprints of books first printed during the Nazi occupation, but authors who joined fascist and similar organizations, are printed in Serbia today”, says the HOPS release.