The Humanitarian Law Center, who represented the families of those persons executed at Ovčara before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court (hereinafter the War Crimes Chamber), believes that the ICTY Appeals Chamber gave undo trust to a witness in the case.
PERIOD: 1990 – 1999
PRIMARY SOURCES: Politika – daily newspaper, Večernjenovosti – daily newspaper
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 45 binders
CONTENT: The Humanitarian Law Center researchers regularly followed the columns in Politika and Večernjenovosti daily newspapers, analyzing them and selecting articles containing direct and concealed war propaganda and incitement to religious and national hatred, and thereby instigating war crimes .
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by source.
The fund is not expected to expand
LANGUAGE: Serbian
PERIOD: 1988-1991
PRIMARY SOURCE: Politika Daily newspaper
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 1 CD
CONTENT: ‘How People Spoke’ represents edited material from the ‘Echoes and Reactions’ column, which was published in the Politika daily newspaper from July 1988 until March 1991, in which Politika’s readers were at the same time authors of articles in which they presented their opinions and reactions to the news published in Politika’s columns relating to internal, foreign, cultural and sports affairs.
The ‘Echoes and Reactions’ column is of essential significance for an understanding of the manner in which the public in Serbia and those parts of Yugoslavia inhabited by Serb populations was systematically prepared for the directed future deconstruction of the country and the wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, finally, Kosovo. Ten years after the sudden end which was as sudden as the beginnings (July 1988 – March 1991), the column remains in the memory of contemporaries as a symbol of the political instrumentalization of the media for the purpose of an orchestrated manipulation of the public, a testimony to the professional downfall of the editors of Politika, a very influential daily newspaper; and also as an indelible record of the dishonourable role of intellectuals in the development and rationalization of ethnic stereotypes, incitement to national hatred and revision of history. This was a preparation for much more serious political and military undertakings that followed.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date.
The fund is not expected to expand.
LANGUAGE: Serbian.
PERIOD: 2011-2012
PRIMARY SOURCE: War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes.
CONTENT: The Fund contains documents and transcripts from trials of members the Yugoslav Army Peć Military Territorial Detachment 177th Platoon, namely, the trials of Toplica Miladinović, Srećko Popović, Slaviša Kastratović, Boban Bogićević, Zvonimir Cvetković, Radoslav Brnović, Vidoje Korićanin, Veljko Korićanin, and Abdulah Sokić, because they committed the war crimes of murder, persecution and looting of the Albanian civilian population in the villages of Ćuška, Zahać and Plavljan.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date.
The fund is expected to expand
LANGUAGE: Serbian
PERIOD: 2009-2010
PRIMARY SOURCE: War Crimes Chamber of Belgrade District Court, Republic of Serbia.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes.
CONTENT: Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, members of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, were charged with the fact that in July 1999 in Petrovo Selo, Serbia, they deprived members of the Atlantic Brigade in the KLA armed services volunteer unit in Kosovo, Ali, Agron and Mehmet Bytiqi, of the right to regular and fair trial, and then killed them by execution.
The fund contains court documents (records of the examination of the defendants and witnesses, official notes, court experts’ reports) and transcripts from trials.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date.
The fund is expected to expand.
LANGUAGE: Serbian.
PERIOD: 2008-2012.
PRIMARY SOURCE: War Crimes Chamber of Belgrade District Court.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 13 archival boxes.
CONTENT: Documents containing transcripts from the trials of Ljuban Devetak, Milan Devčić, Milan Radojčić and Željko Krnjajić, members of Territorial Defence and the de facto civilian and military government established in the Municipalities of Lovas and Tovarnik, as well as transcripts from the trials of Jovan Dimitrijević, Saša Stojanović, Dragan Bačić, Zoran Kosijer and Aleksandar Nikolaidis, members of the Dusan the Mighty volunteer armed group, and of members of Territorial Defence units from Valjevo, Miodrag Dimitrijević, Darko Perić, Radovan Vlajković and Radislav Josipović, who launched an attack against the civilian population of Croatian nationality in Lovas in 1992.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically.
The fund is not expected to expand.
LANGUAGE: Serbian.
PERIOD:1995-2003.
PRIMARY SOURCE: Government of the Republic of Srpska, Ministry of the Interior of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ICMP, ICTY, ICRC
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes
CONTENT: The documents are split into two parts, according to sources. One part of the documents is composed of lists of missing persons and exhumation reports made during the work of international organizations relating to the search for the missing (ICMP, ICRC, ICTY). The second part encompasses witness statements, reports on the transfer of prisoners of war, records on the transfer of persons, official notes made during the implementation of the decision by the Republic of Srpska Government and the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of the Interior to conduct an investigation into the events in Srebrenica in 1995.
OGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically and by source
Additions to the Fund are not expected
LANGUAGE: Serbian
PERIOD: 1997
PRIMARY SOURCES: Radio Television of Serbia, Studio B, Politika (daily newspaper), Naša Borba (daily newspaper)
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes
CONTENT: During the electoral campaign for the 1997 Presidential Elections in Serbia, the Humanitarian Law Center researchers followed the broadcasts from the Radio Television of Serbia and Studio B, and the printed media, including Politika, Blic, and Naša Borba. The documents contain the analysis of the media appearances of the presidential candidates, with a special focus on direct and concealed propaganda and hate speech, and an overview on the extent of success of the equal presentation of candidates and parties as one of the main prerequisites of a free and democratic electoral process.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically and by source
Additions to the Fund are not expected
LANGUAGE: Serbian
SUBFUND FHP-NP-012-1: Claims for Restoration of Tenancy Rights of Persons Displaced in Kosovo
SUBFUND FHP-NP-012-2: Claims for Restoration of Tenancy Rights of Persons Displaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina
PERIOD: 1995-1996, 1999-2000
PRIMARY SOURCES: Family members whose property was forcibly confiscated and who were displaced from the territory of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 40 archival boxes
CONTENT: The Fund contains statements given by injured parties relating to the circumstances under which their movable and immovable property was confiscated; and they are accompanied by various documents proving the right to the confiscated property – personal identification cards, temporary residence registrations, agreements on exchange of real estate, decisions on modifications made in the cadastre, apartment lease agreements, apartment allocation decisions, copies of passports, court certificates, agreements on purchasing real estate, certificates of property rights registration requests, contracts on maintenance for life, title deeds, displaced persons’ identification documents, decisions on paying fees for construction lots, records on evaluation of housing units, the gift of real estate agreements, copies of plans, copies of certificates of title, decisions on permit to build an outhouse, official surveyor’s certificates.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: According to the geographic principle, by municipalities
Additions to the Fund are not expected
LANGUAGES: Serbian, Bosnian
PERIOD: 1999-2011.
PRIMARY SOURCES: Republic of Serbia Ministry of Interior, Prokuplje Secretariat of the Interior, District Court in Prokuplje, District Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Chamber, the Republic of Serbia District Public Prosecutor’s Office, Court of Appeals in Belgrade, Bogujevci family.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 3 archival boxes
CONTENT: The Fund contains court documents and written evidence from trials of accused Saša Cvjetan and Dejan Demirović for the murder of Bogujevci family members committed in Podujevo in 1999, documents originating from the criminal proceedings against Željko Đukić et al. conducted before the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade, transcripts of testimonies given in the trial in the Case of ŽeljkoĐukić et al., documents obtained from the Prokuplje Secretariat of the Interior and the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Prokuplje, report on the engagement of reserve units for the needs of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, memoranda, powers of attorney, newspaper articles, media documents, letters sent by Bogujevci family members.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date
Additions to the fund are not expected
LANGUAGE: Serbian, Albanian