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Subject: Re: A proud nation, beaten down by the Globalists...
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:33:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Vngelis <meberry68 at hotmail.com>
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On 24 Dec, 07:37, macphineas <macphine... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Court slams Bosnia for barring Jews, Roma from office
> AFP
> Published: Tuesday December 22, 2009
>
> The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday slammed Bosnia for
> barring Jews and Roma from running for high elected office in a ruling
> handed down Tuesday.
>
> The two plaintiffs in the case, Dervo Sejdic who is of Roma origin and
> Jakob Finci who is Jewish, both prominent Romanian public figures,
> filed suit in 2006 claiming discrimination and a breach of their human
> rights.
>
> According to the ruling, Finci inquired about running for parliament
> or the three-part presidency and was informed by Bosnia's central
> electoral commission in 2007 that he was ineligible because he was a
> Jew.
>
> The decision was based on a distinction made in the Bosnian
> constitution between two categories of citizen: "constituent peoples"
> -- Bosniacs, Croats and Serbs -- and "others": Jews, Roma and other
> minorities.
>
> Posts in the Bosnian parliament and its three-part presidency are
> reserved to the three so-called constituent peoples under the rules,
> which were intended to prevent ethnic strife in the wake of the
> 1992-95 war.
>
> The court upheld both plaintiffs' complaints, ruling that Bosnia had
> violated provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights
> prohibiting discrimination and upholding the right to free elections.
>
> Bosnia was ordered to pay 20,000 euros (28,500 dollars) to Finci and
> 1,000 euros to Sejdic in costs and expenses.
>
> The Bosnian constitution was an annex to the Dayton Peace accord that
> ended the 1992-95 conflict, splitting Bosnia into two entities, the
> Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation linked by a three-part
> presidency.
>
> The Strasbourg rights court acknowledged that the constitution had
> pursued "the legitimate aim of restoring peace" and that the time was
> "perhaps still not ripe" for Bosnia to move from power-sharing to
> majority rule.
>
> But it also noted that Bosnia had committed under an association
> agreement signed with the European Union in 2008 to bring its
> electoral rules into line with the European convention on rights.

Bosnia aint a nation. Its a US protectorate.
They cant even get multiculturalism right after they occupy the place.
All they are good at is creating ghettoes.
vngelis

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