The European Commission (EC) published the Serbia 2015 Progress Report on November 10th, 2015. The Report follows the progress that Serbia has made in meeting the political and economic criteria for membership in the European Union. The findings of the Report related to establishing responsibility for the war crimes committed and a resolution of the legacy of the armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, follow to a great extent the recommendations from last year’s report.
The new issue of the through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE bulletin brings an interview with the Ambassador of Switzerland to Serbia and to Montenegro, Mr. Jean-Daniel Ruch, and an article authored by the Director of the Policy Center, Dragan Popović.
With Ambassador Ruch we discussed the establishing of regional stability and reconciliation in the Western Balkans, Serbia’s priorities during its chairing of the OSCE, Serbia’s achievements in the field of dealing with the past and the potential contained in the European integration process for further improvements in this area, as well as the contribution of the ICTY towards establishing the facts about the crimes committed and reconciliation between the different communities in the region.
Dragan Popović explained how important it is to include transitional justice topics in the process of the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo. He stated that it is necessary that the Brussels negotiations include the topics of establishing the truth about war crimes, the prosecution of individuals responsible, the implementation of institutional reforms, reparation measures of many kinds, and disclosing the fate of missing persons.
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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At the trial of two Serbian officers charged with killing 27 people in the Kosovo village of Trnje in 1999, a witness recalled how Yugoslav Army troops shot her seven-year-old son dead.
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The trial against an officer and a non-commissioned officer in the Serbian Army, Pavle Gavrilović and Rajko Kozlina, for the crime committed against a civilian population in the village of Trnje in March 1999, continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 27th and 28th, 2015, in Courtroom 2 of the Special Court. After the postponement of the previous five main hearings, victims and eyewitnesses of the crime will appear for the first time to testify in the trial session.
