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FHP-SS-001 FUND: Court documents from trial of Albanians during the Slobodan Milošević era

PERIOD: 1991 – 2006

PRIMARY SOURCES: District Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Chamber, District Courts in Peć, Priština, Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Prokuplje, Požarevac, Vranje, Zaječar, Kraljevo, Leskovac, Negotin, Kuršumlija, Kladovo and Novi Pazar, Municipal Council of Municipality of Glogovac, Republic of Serbia Ministry of Justice – Belgrade

SCOPE AND MEDIUM:  18 archival boxes

CONTENTS:  The fund contains documents from trials of members of  the Albanian national group during the era of Slobodan Milošević, monitored by researchers and attorneys of the HLC. The trials were conducted on the territory of Serbia and Kosovo. The Fund covers the period from 1991 to the present. The Fund contains court documents (indictments, verdicts, appeals, decisions, records from  examinations of the accused, transcripts of trials, records from examinations of witnesses, official notes, trial reports, memoranda, motions for termination of detention, petitions, certificates, powers of attorney), newspaper articles, photographs, letters written by prisoners, lists of prisoners of war and accompanying documents.

ORGANIZATION SYSTEM:  boxes are organized geographically in accordance with the location of the court (alphabetically), and each case is organized chronologically (by date)

Additions to the Fund are expected

LANGUAGE:  Serbian, Albanian

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Box no. 1

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before District Court in Belgrade, District Court in Vranje, District Court in Glogovac, District Court in  Gnjilane, District Court in Zaječar, District Court in Kraljevo and District Court in Mitrovica. A total of 38 cases.

Box no. 2

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Leskovac. A total of 43 cases.

Box no. 3

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Niš. A total of 20 cases.

Box no. 4

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Novi Pazar. A total of 1 case.

Box no. 5

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 12 cases.

Box no. 6

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 67 cases.

Box no. 7

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Požarevac. A total of 13 cases.

Box no. 8

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Preševo and the District Court in Prizren. A total of 45 cases.

Box no. 9

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Priština. A total of 24 cases.

Box no. 10

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Priština and the District Court in Prokuplje. A total of 11 cases.

Box no. 11

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Montenegro, before the District Court in Bijelo Polje, the District Court in Belgrade, the District Court in Kuršumlija, the District Court in Prokuplje, the District Court in Negotin and the District Court in Kladovo. A total of 3 cases.

Box no. 12

  • Powers of attorney, petitions, HLC attorneys’ requests to visit convicts of Albanian nationality in prisons in Serbia, lists of Albanian convicts and the plan of visits of attorneys to district prisons in Belgrade, Smederevo, Niš, Zaječar, Zrenjanin and Ćuprija. A total of 134 cases.
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Presentations of the list of the dead, killed and missing

Between April 1st 2009 and May 31st 2010 HLC Kosovo and HLC organized 29 public presentations of current results of the list of the dead, killed and missing Albanians in municipalities of Suharekë/Suva Reka, Lipjan/Lipljane, Gjakovë/Đakovica, Gllogoc/Glogovac, Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, Obiliq/Obilić, Skenderaj/Srbica, Shtime/Štimlje, Istog/Istok, Klinë/Klina, Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, Pejë/Peć, Deqan/Dečani, Ferizaj/Uroševac, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Gračanica/Gracanicë, Prishtinë/Pristina, Malishevë/Mališevo, Kaqanik/Kacanik, Podujevë/Podujevo, Prizren, Vushtrri/Vučitrne and the villages in which mass crimes were committed: Velika Kruša/Krushë e Madhe [the municipality of Rrahovec/Orahovac], Mejë/Meja[the municipality of Gjakovë/ Đakovica] and Izbicë/Izbica [the municipality of Skenderaj/Srbica].

  1. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Suva Reka/Suharekkë, 18.04.2009.
  2. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Orahovac /Rrahovec, 13.06.2009.
  3. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Lipljan/Lipjan, 11.07.2009.
  4. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Glogovac/Gloggoc 23.07.2009.
  5. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Meja/Mejë, 21.08.2009.
  6. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Kosovo Polje/ Fushë Kosovë, 17.09.2009.
  7. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Obilić/Obiliq, 18.09.2009.
  8. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Izbica/Izbicë, 26.09.2009.
  9. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Srbica/Skenderaj, 28.09.2009.
  10. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Belgrade
  11. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Prizren, 28.10.2009.
  12. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Peć/Pejë, 25.11.2009.
  13. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Vučitrn/Vushtrri, 18.12.2009.
  14. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë, 19.01.2010.
  15. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Istok/Istog, 21.01.2010.
  16. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Gračanica/Graçanicë, 29.01.2010.
  17. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Gnjilane/Gjilan, Vitin/Viti, Kamenica/Kamenicë i Novo Brdo/Novobërde, 09.02.2010.
  18. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Mališevo/Malishevë, 16.02.2010.
  19. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Niš, 20.02.2010.
  20. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Uroševac/Ferizaj, 23.02.2010.
  21. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Klina/Klinë, 28.02.2010.
  22. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Podujevo/Podujevë, 16.03.2010.
  23. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Štimlje/Shtime, 17.03.2010.
  24. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Dečani/Deçan, 30.03.2010.
  25. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Podgorica, 01.04.2010.
  26. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Kačanik/Kaqanik, 05.04.2010.
  27. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Priština/Prishtinë, 27.04.2010.
  28. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Prokuplje, 27.05.2010.
  29. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Dubrava/Dubrave, 29.05.2010.
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Register of Croatian citizens of Serbian ethnicity, killed in the armed conflict in Croatia

According to a number of independent assessments, between 21,000 and 23,000 people were killed or disappeared during the conflict in Croatia.  That number includes 14,000 -16,000 (largely) ethnic Croatian civilians and members of Croatian Armed Forces, and approximately 7,000 ethnic Serb civilians and members of armed forces (members of the former JNA and the armed forces of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, most of whom were ethnic Serbs), who were living in Croatia during the war.

 

The first statements relating to the murder and disappearance of ethnic Serbs during and immediately following Croatia’s military operations were taken by the HLC’s researchers over the second half of 1995.  They gathered 45 statements from witnesses and families of ethnic Serbs that were killed or who disappeared in May 1995 during the Bljesak military operation conducted by Croatia’s armed forces.  107 statements were taken in August 1995 from the survivors and victims’ family members fleeing Oluja – another military operation conducted by Croatia’s police and armed forces.  The process of gathering statements and other data continued in March of 2012.  As of August 31, 2012, a five-member research team had conducted interviews with 266 witnesses and family members of those killed or who disappeared, all of whom are now living in Serbia. Over that period, they also gathered 306 documents and 250 victims’ photos.

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Human Losses in the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia

The project was envisaged as a record of all war crimes victims, soldiers killed in combat and persons that disappeared during, or in connection with the conflict. According to a number of independent assessments, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia led to more than 130,000 deaths. According to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) records – as of August 30, 2012, the remains of 12,656 persons have yet to be recovered. The remains of 1,762 disappeared have been located (but not exhumed), while the fate of 10,894 persons remains unknown.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8,603 individuals are still listed as missing. The Republic of Croatia is still searching for 2,282 persons that disappeared between 1991 and 1995. According to the ICRC, during the Kosovo conflict, a total of 1,771 persons disappeared, although the Humanitarian Law Center’s records set that number at 1,842. The HLC’s records also show that, among the disappeared were 1,326 ethnic Albanians and 516 from other ethnic groups, mainly Serbs and Roma.

The process of listing all individuals killed or who disappeared during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia is being conducted as a regional project, involving the HLC, its Kosovo branch (HLC Kosova), the Center for Research and Documentation (CRD) and Dokumenta. The CRD completed its list of persons killed or missing during the war in B&H in August of 2012. According to its records – more than 95,000 citizens of B&H were killed or went missing between 1992 and 1995 in connection with the war in Bosnia.

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Pravo komandne odgovornosti

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Education

Since the year  2001, the Humanitarian Law Center has been organizing various programmes of informal education concerning international humanitarian law, in relation to the past and transitional justice, in order to enhance  knowledge about transitional justice and support for the process of reconciliation in the region.

 

In the period 2001-2003, the HLC organized a series of trainings for representatives of the Judiciary in Serbia in the area of international humanitarian law, in which representatives of the ICTY and World experts in international law held lectures. Several dozen representatives of the Judiciary in Serbia were thereby trained to apply international humanitarian law and prepared for war crimes trials.

 

During the summer of 2005 and 2006, the HLC organized two regional schools, where approximately 60 young students and human rights activists from BiH, Serbia and Croatia learned about the processes and mechanisms of dealing with the past.

 

The HLC has been organizing the Transitional Justice School since 2011, in which students and teachers of social sciences have an opportunity to hear about ICTY trials, out-of-court mechanisms for fact-finding about  crimes committed in the past, the right of victims of human rights violations to reparations, and the contribution of  archives and the media to  establishing  the truth and indicating accountability,  preserving collective memory, and assisting reconciliation in post-conflict societies.

 

In addition to these activities, the HLC periodically issues  publications about experiences of post-conflict and post-authoritarian states in the region of the Western Balkans and the World. It has also regularly published reports on the progress of transitional justice in the region, thus informing the public about war crimes trials, official and non-governmental fact-finding initiatives, administrative and court reparations, memorials and institutional reform. In its magazine entitled Forum for Transitional Justice, the HLC publishes articles written by relevant authors about challenges to the application of transitional justice mechanisms in the post-conflict societies of the Western Balkans and throughout the world.

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