A new project aims to create a comprehensive database of all the prison camps and other wartime detention facilities across the country over the next five years.
On Thursday, 27th February 2014, it will be twenty-one years since the crime at Štrpci (BiH), where members of the Army of the Republic of Srpska (VRS) abducted 19 Bosniak civilians – citizens of the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – from a train travelling from Belgrade to Bar and subsequently killed them. Women in Black, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) reiterate that the responsibility for this crime lies with the institutions of the Republic of Serbia and condemn their present-day shameful treatment of victims of this crime by refusing to recognize them as civilian victims of war.
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In war crimes investigations, it is unusual to get a name. Victims and witnesses usually cannot distinguish between various forces – police, special police, special forces – let alone a unit. An individual’s identity is the rarest of all.
We are appalled at the utterly irresponsible statement the President of the Republic of Srpska made during the programme entitled Interview, broadcast on 12 February 2014 on the Radio-Television of Republika Srpska, suggesting that the Humanitarian Law Center is providing financial support to the current protests in Bosnia. We insist that this is a blatant untruth and a dishonorable attempt to deceive the general public in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the entire region.
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The Higher Court in Belgrade on 4 February 2014 passed a judgment convicting Đuro Tadić of the war crime against civilians committed on 23 September 1992 in the village of Duljci (municipality of Bihać, BiH), and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) points out that the judgment is based on convincing evidence presented at the trial, and that the accountability of Đuro Tadić was proved beyond reasonable doubt, but that the sentence imposed on him is an insult to the victims.
