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Serbia's State-Run TV RTS Says Sorry Last Week To The Publics Of The Previous Yugoslavia For Serving As A Disinformation Tool Of Wartime Serbian Leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Serbias state-run TV RTS apologized last week to the publics of the previous Yugoslavia for serving as a indoctrination tool of wartime Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
This move is likely to be followed by apologies from other state broadcasters in the countries of the previous Yugoslavia as all of them share responsibility for enflaming ethnic animosity, even though RTS maybe more pointedly served the interests of glad-handers.
It's a significant development on an ethical level, though it's not likely to result in any major effects for journalism or any major improvements in the field : no editors or correspondents were held answerable for their fake and biased reporting, and indeed a lot of them keep active and influential.
The apology is the 1st ever issued by Serbias state broadcaster, which was one of the symbols of Milosevics time marked by wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
The stations newly delegated managing board said its statement that in the tragic events of the 1990s, RTS with its reporting on innumerable occasions hurt the feelings, moral integrity and grace of the Serbian voters, intellectuals, members of political opposition, correspondents, ethnic and spiritual minorities, as well as certain local peoples and states.
The statement also said the content of RTS programs at the time had been purposely built to discredit the Serbian opposition and its leaders.
The apology will definitely represent a very positive step toward improved relations among the nations of the Western Balkans "across the region media played a firm role in the violence. The big issue is whether the RTS apology "or the possible future apologies by state broadcasters in Croatia and Bosnia "is enough ; whether the key players in those media outlets should be attempted for war crimes, as their propaganda encouraged many murders.
When he attained power in the latter 1980s, Milosevic designated trusted associates to head the national broadcaster and turned it into his systems tool all till two thousand when he was toppled. From the beginning of the conflicts in 1991, RTS management and newshounds portrayed Serbs as the subjects of ethnic attacks in the previous Yugoslavia. This propaganda led many Serbs to volunteer for the frontline, looking for revenge.
In 1991, while reporting from the Croatian frontlines, RTS journalists fueled anti-Croatian hysteria by mentioning that Croatian fighters were cutting off Serb childrens fingers and making necklaces out of them. They also reported that Croats were suffocating Serb babies with plastic bags in a nursery in eastern Croatia. The reports were later proved to be fake, but the damage was done.
One witness, a Serb paramilitary volunteer, testified in the Vukovar war crimes trial he had joined Serb paramilitary forces in Croatia after watching a news program in Serbia. When Vukovar slid to the Serbs, paramilitaries grabbed prisoners, taking some two hundred of them to a pig farm in Ovcara where they were beaten, tortured and rubbed out. Their bodies were later found in mass graves.
In 2009, Serbian prosecutors initiated investigations against several newshounds and editors from pro-Milosevic media for inflaming reporting in the 1990s.
Serbias Special War Crimes Prosecutors Office has launched an initial investigation into the task of newshounds in provoking war crimes in the previous Yugoslavia in the 1990s, concentrating on reporting on atrocities in Vukovar in Croatia, and the Bosnian city of Zvornik. While prosecutors related they might have preliminary results inside 2 months, in late 2009, the job proved more challenging than anticipated. The Serbian Prosecutors Office said the aim wasn't to persecute reporters, but to build whether there were elements of criminal activity in reporting.
Of course, it wasn't only RTS that made a contribution to the spreading of ethnic hate ; several media outlets like daily newspapers Politika and Vecernje novosti, and the Tanjug reports agency served as the as mouthpieces of the Milosevic regime. They enjoyed all the entitlements of the regime, including the exclusiveness of reporting from war zones.
Neither was Serbian media alone in this practice.
Though no debate has been launched on this issue in Croatia and Bosnia, there is no doubt that the wartime media outlets in both nations will also have to answer some tough questions. With the RTS apology out there, the world community will expect others to follow. Serbia is working conscientiously to win EU candidate status this year and is under stress to show that it's moving away from the nationalist impulses that drove those wars.
Most likely, ex-Yugoslavian media will not face any war crimes probes at the Hague-based Global Criminal Tribunal for the previous Yugoslavia (ICTY), as media did in the case of the genocide in Rwanda. It might be tricky for prosecutors to build firm links between wartime reporting and war crimes, and the issue of proving that journalists purposely provoked atrocities in previous Yugoslavia will likely go unmet.
Most recently, a Bosnian investigative hack was sacked after footage was released on the internet of him reporting for the Bosnian Serb radio station from Srebrenica on the day the city was overwhelmed by the Bosnian Serb military. In the pictures, Slobodan Vaskovic and his associates were interviewing an aged Bosnian Muslim prisoner, driving him to say the Bosnian Serb military was liberating the town from the mujahideens and that the Bosniak military had committed atrocities against Serbs in the towns surrounding Srebrenica.
It would be bigoted to accuse Vaskovic and other writers for the Srebrenica massacre, but such reporting definitely could have influenced members of the Serb regular and paramilitary forces to find revenge and escalate the conflict. Many of those wartime writers and editors remain public figures, some working in media outlets as writers, newshounds and trainers of a younger generation of reporters, while the others are professors and even ambassadors. The inquiry into the extent of their role in the conflicts definitely should be conducted completely and the public should be aware of who they are. This is vital as public broadcasters in all 3 nations continue to produce biased, unsourced and highly picky reporting, especially when it comes to issues of war crimes and their neighbours.
Excerpts from previous Yugoslav wartime media :
-"It seems that Muslim extremists invented the most terrifying crime on the planet. Last night they fed Serb kids to the lion at the Sarajevo Zoo." RTS broadcasted this story by their Bosnian correspondent, Rada Djokic, in 1992 after a tipoff from Bosnian Serb infantrymen from the frontline.
-"Muslims are still in Makarska." Bosnian Croat Smiljko Sagolj reported this for Croatian TV after many Bosnians sought sanctuary in the Croatian resort city after the beginning of the Bosniak-Croat war. One day after the tale was broadcast, a bomb went off in a Bosnian refugee camp near Makarska.
-"Every Muslim should pick a Serb to kill when the time comes." A Bosniak ( Bosnian Muslim ) reporter wrote this in the mag "Zmaj od Bosne," which is associated with the primary Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA).
-"Turk women claim that we rape them, but just latterly in a refugee camp one of the rape victims gave birth to a black child." Bosnian Serb anchor Risto Djogo said in a Bosnian Serb TV (SRT) reports broadcast as reported tagza.com.
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