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Constitutional Court: Right to Fair Trial Violated In Case of Families of Victims from Sjeverin

Constitutional Court: Right to Fair Trial Violated In Case of Families of Victims from Sjeverin

logo_fhp_postThe Constitutional Court of Serbia established that the right of the family members of the victims of the war crime in Sjeverin to a trial within a reasonable time, in the compensation lawsuit initiated by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on their behalf in 2007 against the Republic of Serbia, was violated. With this ruling, the Constitutional Court of Serbia granted compensation of 600 Euros to each of the 22 applicants.


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Presentation of Dossier: “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army”

Presentation of Dossier: “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army”

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented the Dossier: “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army” on Friday, October 11th, 2013. This Dossier describes 10 crimes in which members of the 125th Motorized Brigade of the YA, under the command of Dragan Živanović, or subordinate units of the 125th Mtr.Br., participated, and in which 301 civilians were killed, including seven women and 19 children.


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Dossier on “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army”

Dossier on “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army”

The Dossier presents the operation of this Yugoslav Army unit during the war in Kosovo and the crimes committed in  this unit’s zone of responsibility, where 1,813 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed, 216 of whom are still registered as missing. None of the perpetrators of these war crimes have been prosecuted to date.


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Criminal Report against Officers and Members of YA and MUP on account of Crime Committed Against 78 Kosovo Albanians

Criminal Report against Officers and Members of YA and MUP on account of Crime Committed Against 78 Kosovo Albanians

#IzSudnice - Sajt  - 4The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) has filed a criminal complaint against six identified officers and members of the 125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army (125th YA MtBr), the Commander of the 24th Detachment of the Special Police Units (SPU), a number of unidentified members of the YA and the 24th Detachment of the SPU, owing to the reasonable suspicion that they ordered or executed the murder of 78 men – Kosovo Albanians – in the village of Kraljane (the Municipality of Đakovica) on April 4th, 1999. Among the accused are Dragan Živanović, the then Commander of the 125th YA MtBr,  Žarko Braković, the then Commander of the 24th Detachment of the SPU, Đorđe Nikolić, the Chief of Staff of the Command of the 125th YA MtBr, and Robert Šmajcelj, the Deputy Commander of Combat Group 5 of the 125th YA MtBr.


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Criminal Report against Officers and Members of YA and MUP on account of Crime Committed Against 78 Kosovo Albanians

Criminal Report against Officers and Members of YA and MUP on account of Crime Committed Against 78 Kosovo Albanians

#IzSudnice - Sajt - 4The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) has filed a criminal complaint against six identified officers and members of the 125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army (125th YA MtBr), the Commander of the 24th Detachment of the Special Police Units (SPU), a number of unidentified members of the YA and the 24th Detachment of the SPU, owing to the reasonable suspicion that they ordered or executed the murder of 78 men – Kosovo Albanians – in the village of Kraljane (the Municipality of Đakovica) on April 4th, 1999. Among the accused are Dragan Živanović, the then Commander of the 125th YA MtBr,  Žarko Braković, the then Commander of the 24th Detachment of the SPU, Đorđe Nikolić, the Chief of Staff of the Command of the 125th YA MtBr, and Robert Šmajcelj, the Deputy Commander of Combat Group 5 of the 125th YA MtBr.


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Presentation of the Dossier on “125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army”

The Humanitarian Law Center will present its Dossier on “The 125th Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav Army” (Dossier) on Friday, October 11th, 2013 at 13:30. The Dossier presents the operation of this Yugoslav Army unit during the war in Kosovo and the crimes committed in  this unit’s zone of responsibility, where 1,813 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed, 216 of whom are still registered as missing. None of the perpetrators of these war crimes have been prosecuted to date.


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