” “Condemning the Serbian paramilitaries "is a duty and is the least one can do before such serious crimes". With these words, father Vladislav Varga, director of Caritas in Serbia-Montenegro, comments with SIR the sentence passed a few days ago by the Serbian Tribunal for War Crimes against four members of the special "Scorpion" taskforce, who have been found guilty of slaughtering six Muslims at the time of the massacre of Srebrenica, in 1995. While on one side "an excessive nationalism would make us only think of ‘our people’ and forget the victims", on the other side "people are aware of the savagery of the crimes they committed, and it is important for everyone to take responsibility". This sentence, according to the Serbian priest, is therefore "an epoch-making event for historical memory, because the Serbians are slowly becoming aware of their own mistakes, before which they cannot escape".” “
