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NGOs call on Serbian government to disclose mass graves dating from the Milošević regime

We support the foundation of a State Commission tasked with finding and marking all secret graves created after 1944, and we demand that the government of the Republic of Serbia establish another commission tasked with disclosing the remaining mass graves in Serbia, created during the time of the armed conflicts waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and also tasked with investigating allegations that bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims were incinerated in the Mačkatica factory, in the Obilić thermal-electric power plant, in Niš and Smederevo during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).


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Speech made by Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling at the presentation of the Schwarzkopf prize award to Natasa Kandic, Vesna Terselic, Mirsad Tokaca and Sandra Orlovic in Berlin, December 2nd 2009.

Welcome

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Mr. Klein (– Head of Representation of the Federal State of Hamburg) Host

Dear Mr. Scharff, (Executive Director of the Schwarzkopf Foundation)

Dear Board Members of the Schwarzkopf-Foundation,
(Herrn Dr. Schmitz-Schwarzkopf, Dieter Kosslick, Dr. Klaes, Dr. Nümann, Herr Koll, Herr Schwarzkopf, Herr Bütow, Herr Dr. Schweitzer, Herr Dreger)

And last but not least: dear Prizewinners – Nataša Kandić, Vesna Teršelić and Mirsad Tokača.

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Balkan Insight: Call for Cross-border War Crimes ‘Truth Commission’

An interview with HLC Executive Director, Natasa Kandic

By: Pedja Obradovic in Belgrade

A broad regional coalition of civil society associations from the countries of the former Yugoslaviais planning to pressure the succession countries into forming a regional commission to establish the facts on war crimes and other severe violations of human rights.


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Trbojevic verdict confirms murder of five prisoners

On December 4th 2009, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, which had found the accused Boro Trbojevic guilty of war crimes against the civilian population and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the war crimes prosecutor and the defence of the accused Trbojevic. In its reasoning the Supreme Court stated that the first-instance verdict does not contain the essential violation of the provisions of criminal procedure or criminal law that the second instance court considers ex officio.


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Deutsche Welle: If Mladic is not made to answer, why should anyone else?

The arrest of Ratko Mladic was one of the conditions of the international community for visa liberalization. Yet Serbian citizens will in a few days be able to travel without a visa in Europe, and Ratko Mladic remains at large. In an interview with Deutsche Welle radio, Natasa Kandic, executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center, said:


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Conference held on European integration and transitional justice

Conference “European integration and transitional justice: perspectives and strategies for the establishment of restorative justice in the Western Balkans” was held on Tuesday December 1st in Brussels, organized by the Center for the Study of Global Governance (London School of Economic) and the Humanitarian Law Center.


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Telegraph: Kosovan death toll is its argument for independence

A decade after the Kosovan conflict, activists are still trying to establish the number of victims. Analysts believe that this could be an important argument for a pro-independence ruling by a UN court.

Analysis by an AFP reporter in Pristina

Published: 2:25PM GMT 30 Nov 2009


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