Open letter regarding support of Dragan Čović and leadership of the HDZ BiH for convicted war criminal Dario Kordić
In firm belief that dealing with the past and decrying of war crimes are the very foundation of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that we all have responsibility to continually fight against ideologies and policies that are responsible for a hundred thousands killed and millions displaced, we want to draw attention to the behavior of leadership of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) and their attendance at the welcoming rally for Dario Kordić, a convicted war criminal, in Zagreb and Busovača.
Such actions of the leadership of the HDZ BiH clearly show the lack of their will to distance themselves from the political and military leadership they were linked to in the nineties, which was found responsible for committing war crimes.
We would also like to emphasize that there is a clear responsibility of the leadership of the HDZ BiH for creating the atmosphere in which physical assault against professor Slavo Kukić occurred, as the attack hapenned because of his criticism of Dragan’s Čović support for Dario Kordić at the Busovača rally.
Such actions are not in accordance with the basic civilization standrards and ideas shared by political movements with a European perspective. With that in mind, we ask the parties within the European People’s Party Group, to initiate proceedings to officially exclude the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina from EPP’s structures.
We also ask those foundations and networks which support the work of the HDZ BiH in any way, to take a public stand on the actions of Dragan Čović and other high officials of the HDZ BiH and, provided they don’t agree with those actions, to introduce appropriate sanctions towards political party under his leadership. We ask that they deny any further support to HDZ BiH until the party carries out internal reform which would demonstrate a change of its current course towards one that would be in line with the civilized and civic values of non-discrimination, integration, respecting diversity and protection of human rights of all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europe as a whole.
We believe that witholding support and distancing themselves from persons responsible for war crimes represent a minimum of basic civilizational values that such a change of course would have to bring.
Signatories
- Adnan Pripoljac
- Aida Bećirović
- Aida Ajanović
- Adis Arapović
- Ahmed Burić
- Aida A. Hozić
- Aida Omanović
- Aleksandar Hemon
- Alisa Karović
- Alma Mašić
- Almin Kaplan
- Amer Bahtijar
- Amer Tikveša
- Amila Kahrović Posavljak
- Andrej Grubačić
- Anes Makul
- Anna Kuliberda
- Ante Lešaja
- Arnej Misirlić
- Asim Mujkić
- Azra Hromadžić
- Azra Šehović
- Behdžet Mesihović
- Belma Buljubašić
- Bjanka Badrov
- Bojan Baća
- Bojan Bilić
- Boris Brkan
- Boris Pavelić
- Boro Kontić
- Dalio Sijah
- Damir Arsenijević
- Damir Banović
- Damir Dajanović
- Damir Krčum
- Danijela Majstorović
- Dario Čepo
- Darko Brkan
- Darko Cvijetić
- David Pettigrew
- Demir Mahmutćehajić
- Denis Kajić
- Dennis Gratz
- Dinko Sijerčić
- Dino Abazović
- Dino Mustafić
- Dragan Markovina
- Dragan Zelić
- Drago Pilsel
- Dražen Lalić
- Đani Bohm
- Edina Bećirević
- Emir Hodžić
- Emir Suljagić
- Enes Ćerimagić
- Faruk Džiho
- Feđa Fajić
- Goran Marković
- Goran Beus Richembergh
- Goran Sarić
- Goran Simić
- Goran Zorić
- Gordan Bosanac
- Haris Imamović
- Haris Ljevo
- Hrvoje Batinić
- Hrvoje Tutek
- Husein Oručević
- Igor Štiks
- Ines Tanović
- Irena Koblaš
- Ismet Lisica
- Ivana Jordanovska
- Ivica Mladenović
- Jadranka Miličević
- Jaroslav Pecnik
- Jasmin Mujanović
- Jasminko Halilović
- Jelena Berković
- Jelena Svilar
- Josip Mićković
- Kristina Tina Ćorić
- Ladislav Babić
- Larisa Kurtović
- Luna Kalaš
- Ljiljana Gehrecke
- Ljubo Manojlović
- Maja Dujković
- Maja Zećo
- Marina Škrabalo
- Mario Mažić
- Marko Dragičević
- Marko Attila Hoare
- Marko Vrljić
- Maša Galić
- Mašenjka Bačić
- Melina Kamerić
- Mili Šestić
- Miljenko Jergović
- Mirnes Kovač
- Muhamed Mešić
- Muhamed Pivić
- Muharem Hindić
- Nađa Škaljić
- Nedim Jahić
- Nedžad Ibrahimović
- Nenad Memić
- Nerin Dizdar
- Nermin Hamzagić
- Nermina Mujagić
- Neven Anđelić
- Nijaz Hlivnjak
- Nikola Vučić
- Nives Miošić
- Olga Lalić-Krowicka
- Oliver Frljić
- Paulina Janusz
- Peđa Kojović
- Pero Jurišin
- Predrag Blagovčanin
- Predrag Lucić
- Radomir Lazić
- Refik Hodžić
- Reuf Bajrović
- Robert Jandrić
- Sabina Ćudić
- Sadžida Tulić
- Sandra Benčić
- Sanel Huskić
- Sanja Sarnavka
- Sanjin Bužo
- Saša Gavrić
- Saša Madacki
- Saša Oručević
- Sead Kreševljaković
- Sergio Šotrić
- Slobodanka Dekić
- Smiljana Vovna
- Snježana Banović
- Sonja Srdanović
- Srđa Pavlović
- Srđan Puhalo
- Srđan Šušnica
- Srđan Vuletić
- Sudbin Musić
- Svjetlana Nedimović
- Štefica Galić
- Tanja Miletić Oručević
- Tijana Cvjetićanin
- Tin Lemac
- Uroš Desnica
- Vedad Pašić
- Vesna Teršelić
- Viktor Ivančić
- Vjeran Pavlaković
- Zdenko Mandušić
- Zlatko Jelisavac
- Zoran Ćatić
- Zoran Pusić
- Zoran Vučkovac
- Zoran Zokster Janić
- Zvonimir Nikolić