The Trial Of Dr. Djura Djurović in 1974 And The State Of Yugoslav Communist Judiciary  Cover Image

Suđenje Đuri Đuroviću 1974. Godine i stanje jugoslovenskog pravosuđa sedamdesetih godina 20. veka
The Trial Of Dr. Djura Djurović in 1974 And The State Of Yugoslav Communist Judiciary

Author(s): Slobodan G. Marković
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd

Summary/Abstract: The paper sketches the life of Dr. Djura Djurović, a pre WW2 lawyer and a member of the Yugoslav Home Army during WW2. He was convicted to 20 years in prison in 1945 as a member of the Central National Committee (CNK) of the Yugoslav Home Army. The paper compares trial to the leadership of CNK in 1945 and the second trial of Djurovićin 1974. On the basis of Djurović’s file from the SDB (Yugoslav communist secret service) the author analyses the ways how indictment against Djurovićwas staged in 1973, and a show-trial that followed. By comparing his verdict and report from an independent observer from the Amnesty International who witnessed the tiral the author analyses the trial and warns on traps in analyses of cases from that time. The author concludes that in the period of 30 years (1945-1974) Yugoslav judiciary advanced very little in the field of political criminal cases regarding the rule of law. In 1974 equaly as in 1945 there was a bond between secret service,the office of the public prosecutor and court panels dealing with criminal law.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 9-40
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Serbian