Marko Prelec

Consulting analyst of Bosnia-Herzegovina and All the Balkans with the International Crisis Group among others.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@OKesic0430 Yeah ... there's a Groundhog Day quality to Bosnia-Herzegovina politics.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

He’s not wrong!

[Jasmin Mujanović @JasminMuj]

The structural reason why the Bosnian election campaign has felt so stilted this year is because every major political concept in the country - including Dodik’s secessionism - is exhausted.

No one has the capacity to realize their top-line aims. But they also lack the courage to compromise or to hand over the reins to new generations. In sum, a categorical lack of vision and courage as the defining quality of an entire political culture.

That would be frustrating at the best of times but especially given the state of regional and world politics, it’s a devastating signal to Bosnian voters. They’re being literally abandoned by their leaders.

I make no partisan predictions but if turnout cracks 50% it will be a minor miracle.

[Željana Zovko @ZovkoEU]

Na Nacionalni dan borbe protiv nasilja nad ženama prisjećamo se triju žena ubijenih 22. rujna 1999. na Općinskom sudu u Zagrebu – Gordane Oraškić, Hajre Prohić i Ljiljane Hvalec – te teško ranjene Stanke Cvetković.

Njihova tragedija trajna je obveza cijeloga društva da nasilje prepoznamo, spriječimo i odlučno sankcioniramo.

@VladaRH je posljednjih godina dodatno ojačala zakonodavni okvir i zaštitu žrtava s jasnim ciljem: svaka žena mora imati povjerenje da će, kada prijavi nasilje, biti saslušana, zaštićena i sigurna.

Naša je zajednička odgovornost graditi društvo nulte tolerancije prema nasilju – društvo u kojem žrtve nisu same, a počinitelji odgovaraju.

Foto: Vlada RH

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

Very good and important observation! Not a new problem but unquestionably far worse now.

[The Tirana Examiner @TiranaExaminer]

Three Americans spoke on the Hague judgment this week. One spoke for the United States. He was the one nobody quoted.
There is now a secondary market in American authority in the Balkans. Ardit Rada asks whether Washington knows who is running it.
by @arditrada

@USEmbassyTirana @USEmbassySJJ @USEmbassySerbia @USEmbPristina

https://t.co/5Oduyo7kzv

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

Have candidates with 5/6 discourage votes in a straw poll nonetheless been elected SG? I ask you @RichardGowan1

[Bronwyn Jones @sharenao]

Actually the BHRC report was flimsy, didn’t take into account publicly known facts and reporting & instead went on a lot of what seemed like it was told by the Ombudsman. I did a breakdown here: https://t.co/CH6J0rIiUx and btw I have worked at ICTY on Kosovo.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

Kosovo's right to independence, like Croatia's, isn't and can never be in the dock. Acting like it is just makes us look bad. END

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

A lot of the Kosovo commentary on the Specialist Chambers judgment reminds me of Croatian reactions to ICTY cases about "our generals" and besmirching the Homeland War. 1/6

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

Though to be fair I think international justice has some responsibility too, because it used joint criminal enterprise too expansively, and unnecessarily mixed the ('clean') ends with the criminal means used to reach them. 5/6

[Miguel Roán @miguelroan1]

Serbia expels @maxmoratti69, @BalcaniCaucaso correspondent in Belgrade.

My solidarity with Massimo. He has dedicated many years to Serbia, defending human rights and working in international cooperation.

https://t.co/o4XBbnjykG

[Bronwyn Jones @sharenao]

Actually I interviewed ex EULEX judge Simmons who was fired for judicial misconduct & several other judges, prosecutors & panelists about this decision. Simmons was accused of prejudicing Limaj & other defendants. The article is here: https://t.co/ZZMnWdopLr

[Milan Vujić @MilaNS__]

1/7 I’ve always considered Agon one of the brightest minds in the region, which is why I find this thread hard to understand. The judgment does not say what your summary suggests.

[Bronwyn Jones @sharenao]

Me in @Euractiv on the Thaci verdict. First report

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@Andric1961 @mbrajshori @EULEXKosovo Indeed, one more good reason for Kosovo to be part of the Council of Europe.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@AgonMaliqi There’s a big difference between superior responsibility and co-perpetration (‘joint criminal enterprise’).

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@AgonMaliqi I don’t think it was solely or even partly on basis of chain of command. Thaçi and some of the others were personally involved in some of the incidents. The judgment was based on common purpose to fight for a ‘clean’ end with dirty means.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@Andric1961 I mean, if one murder in a national system is 15-20 years, what's 100 murders? At some point it stops making sense.

[Marko Prelec @mprelec]

@Andric1961 On the sentences, it's widely discussed in the int'l courts that none of them make sense. I mean, everyone should get life w/o parole. But there's a felt need to calibrate them somehow.