ODGOVORNOST MEDIJA ZA ZLOČINE
THE CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: In the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, media had been considered as one of the most significant means for promoting the violent dissolving process outcome of something formerly known as the Socialist Federative republic of Yugoslavia. Media were also active participants in these events, by instigating or causing many human rights violations, crimes against humanity, even atrocities committed in these regions culminating in the criminal intent –genocide. It was manifested most often through the hate speech that can be treated as a mean of opressing a certain group of people. On this basis media workres are subjected to the criminal responsibility within the joined criminal enterprise representing the intitutions of the international custom law that are accepted by internbational agreements’ ratification. This claim’s founding is found in the international documetns and veen within the national legislations, which are prohibiting the war propaganda as a mean of opressing a certain group of people.

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