War Crimes Documentation Centre Opens in Kosovo
The Humanitarian Law Centre has opened a war crimes documentation centre in Pristina with information from five Kosovo-related trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
The Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo said it opened the new documentation centre in Pristina so people can become better informed about crimes committed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo.
“Even though we always hear people saying that they know what happened during the war, if you ask for more details, only few of them know the exact data,” Bekim Blakaj, the executive director of HLC Kosovo, told BIRN.
The main trial before the War Crimes Department of the High Court in Belgrade in the Trnje case, which was scheduled for September 13 2017, was not held because the defendant Pavle Gavrilović did not appear before the Court, again, because he allegedly fell ill on the day of the trial. His absence was, as in previous occurrences, justified on the basis of medical records issued by the Military Hospital in Niš. The second defendant, Rajko Kozlina, used to use a similar tactics of absence from the trial, with the only difference that he received confirmation of hospitalization from the Belgrade Military Medical Academy. Both defendants are still 
