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HLC – Kosovo presents data on the missing and killed in Gračanica/Graçanicë

On 29 January 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) held a public presentation of the interim results of the record of killed and missing Serbs, Roma, Montenegrins, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in Kosovo in the period from January 1998 until December 2000. The presentation took place in the in the Gračanica/Graçanicë Cultural Center and was attended by around 100 family members of the victims, representatives of associations of victims, representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), and the media.


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Tanjug: RECOM model for overcoming the past

An interview with HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic

HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic, said today that the initiators of the initiative for the formation of a Regional Commission to establish the facts about war crimes and other serious violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM) believe that such a commission is the only way to overcome the past and that without dealing with the past there can be no the democratic future for the region. Kandic in interview with Tanjug said that about 500 NGOs, associations of victims, veterans, women and youth groups launched the initiative and are working intensively on drafting the statute and RECOM model, whose formation will made by decision of the successor states to the former Yugoslavia.


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Presentation of the list of killed and missing in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë

More than 80 family members of the killed and missing attended a presentation of the interim results of the record of the killed, dead and missing in the municipality of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë on January 19th 2010 which was organized by the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) in the Rexhep Mitrovica Cultural Center.


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The Supreme Court of Kosovo upholds the decision in the Gani Hazeraj case

n January 19, 2010, a mixed panel of the Supreme Court of Kosovë/Kosovo, presided by EULEX-appointed judge Emilio Gatti, upheld the first-instance judgment of the District Court in Prizren sentencing the accused Gani Hazeraj to six (6) months jail sentence suspended for one year for participation in the March 2004 violence in Prizren. The sentence will not be executed if the accused does not commit another criminal offense during the twelve-month period starting on the day the sentence became legally binding.


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Bedri Krasniqi Convicted to 27 Years in Prison for Murder of Kosovo Police Officers

A mixed trial chamber of the Kosovo Supreme Court, presided by international judge Gerrit-Marc Sprenger, confirmed on January 1st 2010 the first instance judgement rendered by the Peć/Pejë District Court and sentenced Bedri Krasniqi to 27 years of imprisonment for the murder of two and attempted murder of one member of the Kosovo Police Service.


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Transitions Online: Acts of War – Judge Not …

A new initiative aims to seek the truth about the Yugoslav wars, not necessarily reconcile old enemies.

by Tihomir Loza


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Letter of support – Dr. James Lyon

Sarajevo, 8 January 2008

To Whom It May Concern,

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am writing in support of the Humanitarian Law Center’s proposal for funding from the United States Institute of Peace, to conduct mapping of public memorials in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. First let me speak to the merits of the Humanitarian Law Center, an organization whose work I have followed closely for over a decade. While working in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia over the last 17 years, I have had ample opportunity to work with the HLC and with its director, Natasa Kandic.

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B92: Stanje Nacije

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