(srpski) Potpuno suprotno o ‘Oluji’ i nakon više od dva desetljeća
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The 4th and 5th of August 2016 mark the 21st anniversary of Operation “Storm”, which will be commemorated this year in both Croatia and Serbia with state-sponsored events: in Croatia with a victory celebration and gratitude to its veterans, and in Serbia with a church service for the victims. Despite the declared commitments to victims of the “Storm” by Serbian state leadership ahead of each anniversary, these victims in Serbia have now remained completely deprived of their rights. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) uses this opportunity to call upon competent institutions to comprehensively resolve the issues of compensation and support to their citizens who have suffered, as civilians, grave violations of their basic rights during the armed conflicts of the 1990s.
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From February until June 2016 over 700 citizens of Serbia and Kosovo saw the documentary film “Depth Two”. The film was aired in Kragujevac, Čačak, Subotica, Pančevo, Belgrade, Novi Pazar, Niš, as well as in Pristina in Kosovo. Every screening was followed by a discussion with the authors, in which victims and their families, civil society activists, students, journalists, artists and other experts from various fields participated. This short video collage highlights some of the discussion moments and messages of citizens of Serbia and Kosovo to their compatriots and representatives of institutions.
The film, a co-production of HLC and Non Aligned Films, premiered at the 66th International film festival in Berlin (Berlinale) in February 2016, and was subsequently shown at festivals in Thessaloniki, Wiesbaden, Belgrade, Novi Sad and London.
It won the Award for Best Film Editing at the Beldocs International documentary film festival in Belgrade, and the Grand Jury Award at the Open City festival in London. In late July 2016 the film won the Critics Award at the Atlántida Film Fest in Spain.
The film is a part of the Batajnica Memorial Initiative, aimed at creating a memorial site for victims found in Batajnica.
On 18 July 2016, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (Commissioner) sent a request to the Government of the Republic of Serbia to ensure the execution of his decision of May 2014, which ordered the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) with information as to whether two officers of the Army of Serbia (VS) – Pavle Gavrilović and Rajko Kozlina – remained in active service after an indictment was raised against them for a war crime. The HLC believes that complying with the request of the Commissioner and ordering the MoD to communicate the information requested should be a priority for the Government, in order to make it clear that state authorities may not violate the public’s right to know the facts about past crimes and the role played by the state in these crimes, especially where people who are still in the public office have been involved in them.
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The new issue of the through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE bulletin brings an interview with the Regional Cooperation Council’s Secretary General Mr. Goran Svilanović, and the analysis of the victims’ rights in Serbia provided by Humanitarian Law Center’s Legal Analyst Mr. Relja Radosavljević.
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.
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