- Kosta Čavoški
Kosta Čavoški (born 1941 in
Banatsko Novo Selo ) is a professor at theUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Law . He is an outspoken critic of theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and is a Serbian nationalist.He was one of the thirteen initiators of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party in
Serbia onDecember 11 ,1989 . He was one of the leading members ofthe Founding Committee of the Democratic Party who drafted the first party political program of the Democratic Party published as the Letter of Intent (Pismo o namerama) on 18 January 1990. However, within a year he left the Democratic Party along with Professor Nikola Milošević and others to found his own political entity, theSerbian Liberal Party .Kosta Čavoški had been a dissident since the 1970s when as an assistant law professor at
University of Belgrade in 1973 he published an article critical of the communist system entitled "Which values are protected by our laws?”. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and thrown out of the Law School. In 1990 he was readmitted to the Law School as a full-time professor, and at the beginning of 1996 the President of Bosnia’sRepublika Srpska Radovan Karadzic appointed him a Senator of the entity.On February 23rd 2007, Čavoški was briefly questioned by the police in Republika Srpska after visiting the family of Radovan Karadžić, a fugitive accused of
war crime s inBosnia and Herzegovina during theBosnian War . He is also a well known supporter of Serbianultranationalist organizations such asObraz ,Nacionalni stroj andNomokanon .In June 2008 he was declared "
persona non grata " byBosnia-Herzegovina because of his connections, and he was banned from entering the country again. [ [http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=06&dd=04&nav_id=50797 Bosnia to expel Serbian professor] , "B92 ", June 4, 2008]References
* [http://www.pravi-cavoski.rs/ Facts on Kosta Čavoški]
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* [http://www.danas.co.yu/20070224/hronika4.html#2 Danas — Teško gošćenje]
* [http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/autori/cavoski.kosta/ Balkan Archive - about ICTY]
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