On September 30 2014 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) will present the Analysis of War Crimes Prosecution in Serbia 2004-2013. The event will be held in Media Center Belgrade (2nd floor), from 12:00 a.m.
Film “Children After War” was produced by the Humanitarian Law Center after the discussion, organized in Belgrade on December 19th, 2013. Seven young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, who survived crimes and personal tragedies alone or together with their family members, participated at the roundtable. The roundtable was attended by 40 young students of elementary and high schools and university students from Serbia.
Students of the Alpbach Summer School on European Integration visited the Humanitarian Law Center on September 17, 2014. The School is organized by the Club Alpbach Belgrade and the students come from all countries of the Southeast Europe.
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The new issue of the bulletin through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE has been published!
The sixth issue brings to attention the discussion on rare war crimes indictments filed against high-ranking members of the military and police, as well as the possibility to prosecute for command responsibility and crimes against humanity.
A researcher from the Amnesty International, Sian Jones, poses the question as to why an adequate investigation of those suspected of planning, instigating, ordering and covering up war crimes in Serbia still does not exist despite its numerous announcements. Ivan Jovanović, a Consultant for international criminal and humanitarian law, argues whether command responsibility and crimes against humanity can be prosecuted in Serbia and why.
The News column provides an overview of the latest developments in the field of transitional justice and the European integration of Serbia.
Send us your opinion and comments on the bulletin and/or topics that it initiates to the e-mail address towardsJUSTICE@hlc-rdc.org. Discussion is also welcome on Twitter/#towardsJUSTICE.
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In an interview for the daily newspaper Večernje novosti, published on September 6, 2014 under the title “Ugljanin inventing Torture”, Suzana Paunović, the Director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights of Serbia, said that the claim made by the former Minister without portfolio, Sulejman Ugljanin, which stated that Bosniaks in Sandžak were victims of systematic torture, is inappropriate and unfounded.
The 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.
