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Charter of Helsinki Committee for Srdjan Aleksic

The Steering Board of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously decided on 26 March 2007, in line with the Rulebook on Awards, to posthumously award Srdjan Aleksic with the Charter of Helsinki Committee for exceptional contribution to protection of human rights and their promotion.

Srdjan Aleksic had sacrificed his own life to protect another person’s life on 21 January of the wartime year of 1993.

In the centre of Trebinje, then a 27-year-old, Srdjan Aleksic stood in the way of intentions of uniformed and armed criminals, who had attacked his Bosniak neighbour Alen Glavovic. Having helped Alen to literary escape death, Srdjan became the victim of abusers. He died in hospital seven days later of wounds inflicted by beating.

The family of late Srdjan Aleksic will be handed over the greatest award of the Helsinki Committee for contribution to protection of human rights and their promotion at the next Assembly of Helsinki Committee.

Srdjan Dizdarevic
Chairman of Helsinki Committee
in Bosnia and Herzegovina

No.: 07-03/2007
Sarajevo, 27 March 2007

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