The Director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro, Milka Tadić Mijović, pointed out yesterday that the articles by Marko Vešović and Šekio Radončić published by the state Pobjeda for years are unprecedented hate speech, full of untruths, slander and calls for violence against all who represented independent media.
She assessed this at the trial she initiated with her former colleague, Monitor editor Milena Perović Korać, due to insults and hate speech in the texts of Pobjeda from June 2011 to April 2012. The proceedings are being conducted against the state, Pobjeda and the then editor Srđan Kusovac.
Tadić, testifying in the Basic Court in Podgorica, explained that in those texts there was no controversy at all with what the two of them were publishing at that time, but they were reduced to the grossest insults to her and her family.
"It was aimed at destroying my private life and the life of my family. It disturbed me so much, I felt desperate, it was an unprecedented length of campaign for someone".
She also assessed that this long-term campaign was a prelude to what later happened to the executive director of MANS, Vanja Ćalović.
She also stated that it was particularly insulting that she was called a Chetnik, because she has been fighting against nationalist and war ideologies all her life.
"First, they humiliated me as a woman, mother and wife, and then attacked my views," concluded Tadić Mijović.
She added that she appealed to the then Prime Minister Igor Lukšić to stop that brutal campaign, because the entire DPS was then in the Steering Committee of Pobjeda.
He claims that he told her that there was nothing he could do about it.
She also stated that she filed a criminal complaint against the authors of the texts, but that it was never acted upon.
"It was a bunch of untruths, and the kind of language they used in the texts should not be allowed in public," she concluded. The trial continues on March 6, when Perović Korać is scheduled to be heard.
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