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The Court of Appeals in Belgrade: Serbia is responsible for the torture and inhumane treatment of Bosniaks in the Šljivovica concentration camp

The Court of Appeals in Belgrade: Serbia is responsible for the torture and inhumane treatment of Bosniaks in the Šljivovica concentration camp

Logo_FHPThe Court of Appeals in Belgrade (Court of Appeals) amended the judgment of the First Basic Court in Belgrade and rendered a final judgment stating that Serbia is responsible for the torture and inhumane treatment of the Bosniaks Enes Bogilović and Mušan Džebo from Žepa, committed by members of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI). Bogilović and Džebo were detained in the concentration camp Šljivovica (municipality Čajetina) in 1995 and 1996. The Court of Appeals also obliged the State to pay them compensation to the amount of 600,000 RSD. Although the amount awarded may not constitute fair compensation for the victims, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) points out that the final court assessment of the treatment of captured Bosniaks in the camp Šljivovica by members of the MOI represents the first institutional recognition of the atrocities committed against Bosniaks in the concentration camps at Šljivovica and Mitrovo Polje.

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International Day of the Disappeared 2014: More than 11000 still missing in the Western Balkans

International Day of the Disappeared 2014: More than 11000 still missing in the Western Balkans

ICRC_logoThe past conflicts in the Western Balkan left thousands of missing people. The ICRC registered more than 34 000 cases related to the conflicts in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. More than 23 000 were already resolved, but over 11 000 families remain without an answer about the fate of their missing relatives.

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Coalition for RECOM: Finding the bodily remains of ‘the missing’ is a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of the past

Coalition for RECOM: Finding the bodily remains of ‘the missing’ is a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of the past

zarekom_ruke_postSome 23 years after the outbreak of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the bodies of 13,000 victims remain unaccounted for. On the occasion of the International Day of Missing Persons, the Coalition for RECOM calls on the governments of the post-Yugoslav countries in the region, national commissions and other competent bodies to confirm that the discovery of the bodily remains of involuntarily missing persons is a priority, and a key element of their regional cooperation. In so doing, they will lay a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of their common past.

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Students of the “Hands on the Balkans” Programme Visit HLC

Students of the “Hands on the Balkans” Programme Visit HLC

DSCF5921 On Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 participants of the “Hands on the Balkans” programme, organized by the Thessaloniki Center for Democracy and Reconciliation, visited the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC). The participants in the program are young students and researchers from faculties of political sciences from across Europe, who during their two-week stay in the Western Balkans region, are learning first-hand about sustainable development and democratization in the region.

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Include victims’ rights to reparation in Chapter 23

Include victims’ rights to reparation in Chapter 23

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The European Commission (EC) Screening Report for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Human Rights, does not contain information on the rights of victims of the war crimes and of mass violations of human rights committed during the 1990’s to material compensation and other types of reparation. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) calls upon all participants in Serbia’s European Union (EU) accession negotiations to include all norms and international standards relating to the rights of victims of human rights violations, including the requirements of the EU Acquis, into the process of the harmonization of domestic regulations with  EU law.

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War Crimes Department in Belgrade is hampering the trial for crimes committed in the village of Terrnje

War Crimes Department in Belgrade is hampering the trial for crimes committed in the village of Terrnje

fdh_kosovo_logoFamilies of the victims of Terrnje village, Municipality of Suva Reka, informed the Head of Department for War Crimes in Belgrade, Judge Mirjana Ilic, who is also the presiding judge in the case against officers Rajko Kozlina and Pavle Gavrilovic for the murder of 27 women, children, and the elderly on 25th March 1999, that they will not take part in further proceedings due to her decision to exclude the representatives of injured parties (lawyers from Kosovo) on the grounds that they are not registered with the Serbian Chamber of Advocates.

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