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The fifteenth issue of the Bulletin “through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE”

In the new issue of the through ACCSESSION towards JUSTICE Bulletin, Attorney at Law Mr. Mihailo Pavlović, discusses a new attempt by Serbia to legally regulate the provision of free legal assistance. Free legal assistance represents more than a required obligation for harmonization with EU Acquis, but also an obligation towards society’s vulnerable citizens, who would be the greatest beneficiaries of this assistance: a number of which include victims of war crimes.

The News section highlights current developments in the areas of transitional justice and Serbia’s EU integration process, and the War Crimes Trials section offers an overview of recently held trials and rulings delivered.

Send us your opinions and comments on the newsletter and/or the topics discussed to the e-mail address towardsJUSTICE@hlc-rdc.org. Discussion is also welcome on Twitter/#towardsJUSTICE.

Download your copy of the bulletin here.

(srpski) Dan bijelih traka: Prijedor ne odobrava spomenik ubijenoj djeci

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The exhibition on the destruction of cultural heritage sites opened in Belgrade

On Saturday, May 27th 2017 the exhibition titled “Targeting monuments-Targeting history and memory” was opened in Belgrade. The exhibition consists of photographs, videos, eyewitness testimonies and documents that speak of the enormous scale of destroyed cultural heritage during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The exhibition is based on the eponymous narrative, which shows how serious crimes against the cultural, historical and religious heritage committed during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo were investigated, reconstructed and prosecuted before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

(srpski) Provodeći ostatak života između dva mezara

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(srpski) Kalesić o Tuzlanskoj kapiji: Prkosilo se tokom cijelog rata

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(srpski) Zločini u logorima u Srbiji nezapočeta priča

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(srpski) Gde smo bili kad si bio niko

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Are war crimes trials in Serbia dying out?

On Thursday May 18th 2017, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented its sixth report on war crimes trials in Serbia. The report includes an analysis of 28 cases that were conducted before the courts in Serbia in 2016, placing them in the socio-political context that affects their processing.

INVITATION: Exhibition and the debate on the destruction of the cultural heritage in the former Yugoslavia

SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice and Humanitarian Law Center

in cooperation with  Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past, History Museum of BiH and Europa Nostra

cordially invite you to join us at the exhibition

 „Targeting monuments – Targeting history and memory“

and the opening talk attended by

PhD Milena Dragićević Šešić,  professor at Faculty of Dramatic Arts

PhD Olga Manojlović Pintar, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia

Mina Vidaković, SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice

on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 19:00

at the Center for Cultural Decontamination (Birčaninova 21, Belgrade).

The exhibition „Repression of history and memory“ shows the tremendous scale of the destruction of the cultural heritage during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, which reached the level of becoming the greatest devastation on European soil since World War II. The destruction of historical, religious and cultural buildings and sites was deliberate, part of the execution of the policy of persecuting communities from those areas the conquest of which was the aim. In that way, buildings that once unified the nations became places that separated them, often even after their restoration. The exhibition is designed to contribute to the public debate on the scope and consequences of the destruction of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, to expand horizons beyond the prosecution of those crimes by the Hague Tribunal, and to contribute to a more comprehensive discussion of the importance of cultural, religious and historical treasures in our region.

Prominent war photographers, numerous archival and museum institutions, and such renowned international experts on cultural heritage as Helen Walasek, Andras Riedlmayer and Colin Kaiser, have participated in the setting and realisation of this exhibition. The curator of the exhibition is Branka Benčić from Croatia.

 Live stream is available here

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