Serbia won't allow history revision, defence minister says

Vulin was carried as saying that the history of civil wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia was “a history of brutal distortion of facts in real time.”

Speaking at a debate called “Attempts of revising the history” held at the Defence Ministry’s stand, the minister assessed that “the facts stopped being obligatory” and are “brutally violated.”

According to Vulin, this is why the Media Centre, the ministry’s body in charge of communication and publishing activities, has published “The Warrior” edition.

The edition of seven books contains the diary of the former Yugoslav army commander Nebojsa Pavkovic and the book of memories written by the Pristina corps commander Vladimir Lazarevic, who were sentenced before The Hague-based tribunal for the crimes against humanity.

Vulin said that the public did not even debate the book or the authors but the right of the authors to write at all.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights asked Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to halt the launch and print of the Pavkovic’s book and assessed that the launch of “The Warrior” was “the most open kind of support of the state bodies to the convicted war criminals” during her term.