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Military conscription and war participation under a state-falsified identity (1993–1999)

Ministry of Defence certificates showing military service in 1993, completion of service in 1996–1997, and war participation in 1999 under the Petrović identity produced after the second adoption.

Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia 2026-04-02
This document is not a neutral military-service record. It proves the adult consequence of the identity substitution chain. Serbia did not restore origin, father, name, language, inheritance or biological continuity. But the same state treated the falsified Petrović identity as sufficient for military obligation, restricted movement, forced completion of service, and war mobilization. The identity did not produce rights. It produced obligations. Author’s note The author obtained these certificates solely as evidence. He used the stated administrative purpose of regularizing pensionable service to make the state itself confirm the data in its own records in writing; for him, this was the only available way to obtain those official records. He never intended to use these certificates to claim pension or any other rights, has never used them for that purpose, and never will, because doing so would lend legitimacy to the conduct he challenges. The author also emphasizes that his military service and wartime participation were not voluntary: reporting for service was compulsory, and failure to report was punishable by imprisonment. The author’s legal conclusion is that imposing military obligations and wartime mobilization under a state-falsified identity was itself unlawful. The author attributes responsibility to the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and to the Republic of Serbia as its successor. He demands that the state identify the responsible authorities and individuals and establish what information they held. In his argument, the internal division of responsibilities cannot excuse the consequences he suffered.
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1993: military service begins under the falsified Petrović identity
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1996–1997: forced completion of service under the falsified identity
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1999: war mobilization under a falsified identity
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The plaintiff’s final submission: void adoption, violent assimilation and the continuing breach — 12 January 2026
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The author reserves separate claims for military and wartime consequences under the contested identity. The linked official service records distinguish documented service from his legal argument about state responsibility.

## Source page 22 - whether today’s Centre has the right to behave as the owner of a child’s identity and origin; and - whether, through its silence, the Court agrees to be an accomplice in this. ### XI. RESERVATION OF THE RIGHT TO DAMAGES AND FURTHER PROCEEDINGS I fully maintain Section IX of my submission of 27 October 2025, entitled “Reservation of the right to costs and damages”, without changing the relief sought: - I reserve the right to seek compensation for material and non-material damage in separate proceedings; - I reserve the right, once the obstacle created by full adoption is removed, to commence proceedings to establish paternity and obtain corresponding corrections to civil registers; - I consider that the defendant should bear the costs of these proceedings, while any question of recourse against third parties, such as heirs, concerns exclusively the defendant’s relationship with those persons and is not a burden for the plaintiff. I particularly emphasize that the falsified identity, founded upon unlawful full adoption and forced administrative assimilation, had direct consequences for my life and bodily integrity. As a person constructed on paper as a “domestic” citizen with an assigned majority identity, during the wars of the 1990s, including the 1999 war, I was legally and effectively exposed to obligations of military service, mobilization and wartime measures precisely in the state that had previously falsified my identity. Had I grown up with truthful knowledge of my Hungarian–Croatian origin, actual family connections and opportunities to establish ties with other legal orders, I would never have voluntarily agreed to become that state’s soldier or to have my life used as a resource in its wars. I therefore consider that all obligations the state imposed on me precisely through that unlawfully constructed identity — including military obligations and being taken into a war zone — were substantively founded upon a void act of full adoption and forced assimilation. I leave the question of the legal consequences of that nullity for those obligations, and the scope and method of compensation for endangering my life, to separate proceedings that I reserve the right to initiate after this dispute ends. **Proposal to the Court:** - To take note of this submission and add it to the case file. - In accordance with previous orders, to establish which evidence the defendant has failed to supply and draw adverse evidentiary inferences in that respect. - In deciding the case, to apply the law in force at the time of the acts — the 1974 Constitution of the SFRY, the 1976 Adoption Act of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, the ICCPR and ICERD — and assess the defendant’s present conduct, including failure to supply files, denial of the violation and maintenance of an unlawful state, in light of current law: the 2006 Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, minority legislation, the Anti-Discrimination Act and relevant international conventions. - To deliver a clearly and fully reasoned judgment confronting the facts and documents as a whole, rather than the selective quotation practised by the defendant.
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