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20th Anniversary of the War Crime Committed in Lovas

LOVAS, October 18th, 2011 – Twenty years ago, on October 18th, 1991, after occupying the Croatian part of Srem, members of the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army and the Serbian paramilitary unit “Dušan Silni” (Dušan the Mighty) took 51 residents of the village of Lovas to a so-called “bloody grape harvest”. The residents, the youngest of whom was 19 years old and the oldest was 60 years old, were forced, under the threat of use of weapons, to go through a minefield. On this occasion, 21 residents of the village were killed and 14 were wounded. The proceedings before the Higher Court in Belgrade in this case have been pending for 3 years already.


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Peticija za odgovornu Srbiju!

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Clint Williamson visit to HLC

FHP_srb_logobezBELGRADE, October 25th, 2011 – Clint Williamson, Chief of the Special Investigative Task Forces, visited the Humanitarian Law Center today.

During their discussion with Nataša Kandić, representatives of the Task Force presented frameworks for war crimes and organized crime investigations, which entail verification of accounts referring to detention sites, missing persons, torture, killings and mass graves, and which relate to allegations in the report by Dick Marty for the period 1999-2000 in Kosovo.

The HLC gave its full support to the work of the Task Force, and stressed how important it is for victims’ families to resolve the issue of missing persons and mass graves.

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19th Anniversary of the Crime in Sjeverin

PRIBOJ, October 22nd, 2011 – 19th anniversary of the war crime committed in Sjeverin, in which 16 Bosniak civilians, citizens of the Republic of Serbia were killed, was marked on Saturday, October 22nd. Victims’ families and friends laid flowers and paid respect to their closest family members and friends in the village of Mioče (BiH), where they were taken off the bus by members of the paramilitary formation “Osvetnici” (Avengers). Representatives of political parties, representatives of Bosniak cultural and religious institutions from Sandžak and several representatives of non-governmental organizations (including representatives of the Humanitarian Law Center) attended the commemoration.


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Dossier “The 10th Sabotage Detachment of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska”

Dossier “The 10th Sabotage Detachment of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska”

10dive-dosije-enThe 10th Sabotage Detachment, unit of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) participated in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. It has been established that members of this detachment took part in two mass executions of Muslims from Srebrenica.

On 16 July 1995, at the Branjevo Military Farm in the village of Pilice, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), eight members of the 10th Sabotage Detachment, acting on orders issued by Dragomir Pećanac and Milorad Pelemiš, executed approximately 1,200 Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica. The firing squad included Franc Kos, Marko Boškić, Aleksandar Cvetković, Dražen Erdemović, Brano Gojković, Vlastimir Golijan, Zoran Goronja, and Stanko Savanović.

The second mass execution was conducted on 23 July 1995 in the village of Bišina, when members of the 10th Sabotage Detachment, following orders issued previously by Petar Salapura and Milorad Pelemiš, killed at least 39 Muslim prisoners. The identity of the soldiers who conducted this execution remains unknown.

Dossier “The 10th Sabotage Detachment of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska” can be downloaded here.

Digital narrative based on the dossier can be seen here.

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