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It is with deep sorrow that the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) must now inform the public that our long-time associate and friend, Attorney Dragoljub Todorović, passed away on May 14th, 2015.
Dragoljub had represented victims and victims’ family members on behalf of the HLC, since the beginning of the war crimes trials in Serbia. He persistently advocated the protection of their rights, thereby offering his contribution to the substantiation of the truth about the kidnapping in Štrpci, the brutal execution of the Bogujevci family in Podujevo, and the crimes committed at Ovčara, Zvornik, Trnovo, and elsewhere. During 1999 and 2000, Dragoljub, together with the HLC’s team of attorneys, defended the Kosovo Albanians unlawfully detained in politically motivated proceedings.
Oleksii Bida, an activist from the Center for Audio-visual Art, was abducted in early May 2014 in his hometown of Luhansk. Members of pro-Russian forces unlawfully detained, interrogated and tortured him for hours. He was released the following day and left Lugansk immediately. Oleksii had previously organized and participated in a number of events in support of the unity of Ukraine. Apart from this engagement, he was not involved in politics nor did he take part in the conflict. This was only one of many instances of human rights violations committed in the territories under the control of pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
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Representatives of the ‘Justice for Peace in Donbas’ Coalition, comprising several human rights organizations from East Ukraine, began their study visit to the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Monday, May 11th, 2015. The organizations comprising the ‘Justice for Peace in Donbas’ Coalition have been working intensively on gathering and documenting information on human rights violations and on advocating the rights of the victims of the conflict currently ongoing in the east of Ukraine. Owing to the armed conflict, most of them have been forced during the past year to leave Luhansk and Donetsk and to continue working on documenting human rights violations in the refuge.
On Friday April 24th, 2015, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) held a conference History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation? The HLC’s aim was to contribute to the debate on the role of education in the process of dealing with the past and overcoming its heavy legacy, and the actualization of the issue to do with the contents of history textbooks regarding the wars and war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s. Experts in the fields of history, political studies, law, sociology, and philosophy, many of whom have already made their contributions to the analysis of the content of history textbooks, were invited. The participants were invited to offer their answers to the problem of how historiography today values the judicial facts about war crimes, why most of the textbooks ignore these facts, which historical sources are relevant for the wars waged during 1990’s, and what the role of the voluminous material now available about war crimes, collected by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), might be in the creation of a common historical memory of all societies in the former Yugoslavia.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) sent today to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia the comments regarding the third draft Action Plan for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights. The HLC’s comments relate to the development of measures from the Action Plan for the purpose of creating conditions for a more comprehensive prosecution of war crimes and protection of victims’ rights.
On the occasion of National Day of Missing Persons, the Humanitarian Law Center of Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) requires from the Government of Kosovo more commitment in shedding light on the fate of the missing persons, also requires from the relevant institutions to do more in addressing the criminal responsibility.
