Despite a chilly turn in the weather, a wonderfully warm and determined @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket today.
No to drastic cuts; no to compulsory redundancies!
Proud to stand with a great bunch of colleagues, including over 25 from the School of Law today. 💪
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JUDGE ANTONETTI: [Interpretation] Just a minute. General Praljak, the Prosecutor has emphasised the issue of religion, the influence that the Catholic Church exercised, and we can see in the list, at page 18 in the English version, the role of someone called Alojzije Stepinac. As you are well aware, he was a cardinal in Zagreb, he was declared a martyr by the Pope, but in 1946 the Yugoslav authorities convicted him for having collaborated with the Ustasha. This is a well-known public fact. So having referred to him in a document intended for use by soldiers who, a priori, have no particular confession, even if most of them were Catholic, well, the fact that this
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was done, doesn't it mean that a signal is being given? Why is this reference made to the cardinal?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z2oc4iiedgavndovfo6vq62q/bafkreic6wun7twzdx4bq26hptgz4k4geckphr2uqyozqcl4oksmnmgcfpq)
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THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] For his moral position, Judge Antonetti. Naturally, I know about the work and the life of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, I know a lot about that. His stance in the course of the Second World War, his stance after the Second World War, his stance at trial -- well, later he was poisoned in prison, and he died as a result of this poisoning, but his guardian in prison, the guardian of all those prisons at the time the cardinal was there, well, it was Mr. Manolic, who has testified here. So he was beatified. And because of his moral position expressed in court in relation to all other counts, and he stated that his conscience was clear, and I'll repeat this before this Court, although naturally I can't compare myself with the cardinal, well, because of this position this is the reason for which we -- or, rather, I wanted to make a reference to this moral position. And under item 7, it says you have to be dedicated... (extract ends)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z2oc4iiedgavndovfo6vq62q/bafkreigowxzcjqeiyy42jptvnwgbyei5kraus4glp6pqtiml3twn6ivnwm)
