Members of the Advisory Committee on the Archives of the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ACA) visited Belgrade at the end of December 2007 to discuss the future of the Hague Tribunal archive with representatives of the authorities and NGOs.
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A Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) attorney filed three compensation lawsuits against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Mušan Džebo, Enes Bogilović, Ahmet Kamenica, Mujo Vatreša, Selim Nuhanović, Halil Durmišević, Senad Jusufbegović, Fehim Dudević, and Fadil Čardaković [all from Žepa], because of the state’s responsibility for their detention in Šljivovica and Mitrovo Polje camps during the summer of 1995 and torture committed against them by members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior. The compensation lawsuits were filed on 23 November and 20 December as part of the support programme to victims of past human rights violation in exercising their right to reparation.
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PERIOD: 2005-2006.
PRIMARY SOURCE: War Crimes Chamber of Belgrade District Court, Republic of Serbia.
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 8 archival boxes.
CONTENT: The fund contains documents from the trials of members of the paramilitary unit known as „Yellow Wasps“, who committed crimes against civilians in Zvornik in breach of International Law during time of war and in breach of the Geneva Convention.
The fund contains transcripts of audio recordings made at the main hearing.
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically by date.
The fund is expected to expand.
PERIOD: 2003-2006.
PRIMARY SOURCE: Zagreb County Court (Croatia), War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade (Serbia), Department for Fight Against Organized Crime, Ministry of the Interior (Serbia).
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes.
CONTENT: The fund contains documents from the trials of member of the paramilitary formation known as the “Scorpions”, who killed 6 Muslim prisoners during the war in the then Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the place called Gordinjske bare near Trnovo, in breach of the provisions of International Law, and in breach of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Hence, they committed a criminal act of war against a civilian population. The fund contains court documents (indictments, verdicts, records from the main hearing, transcripts of audio recordings of the main hearing) from two separate trials: the trial of Slobodan Divković before the Zagreb County Court (Croatia) and the trial of Slobodan Medić, Pera Petrašević, Aleksandar Medić, Aleksandar Vukov and Branislav Medić before the War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade (Serbia).
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date.
The fund is not expected to expand.
LANGUAGE: Serbian, Croatian.
LIST OF CONTENTS:
Box no. 1
• Slobodan Davidović Case – Zagreb County Court, Republic of Croatia,
September 8th, 2005 – December 16th, 2005.
• Slobodan Medić et al Case – court documents – War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade , Republic of Serbia, December 20th, 2005 – March 15th, 2006.
• Photos of members of the “Scorpions” unit.
Box no. 2
• Slobodan Medić et al Case – court documents – War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, April 11th, 2006 – July 5th, 2006.
Box no. 3
• Slobodan Medić et al Case – court documents – War Crimes Chamber of the District Court in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, photos, report by the Military History Institute in Belgrade, verdict.
February 22nd, 2006 – September 17th, 2007
PERIOD: 1993 -1997
PRIMARY SOURCE: District Court in Belgrade (Serbia), Higher Court in Bijelo Polje (Montenegro), Commission of the Government of Montenegro for Collection of Information about Abduction of Passengers from Train 671 in Štrpci, various newspapers
VOLUME AND MEDIUM: 2 archival boxes
CONTENTS: The fund contains documents from the separate trials of Milan Lukić and Nebojša Ranisavljević, members of a paramilitary formation which, during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, attacked a train of the Yugoslav Railways in the village of Štrpci, from which, in violation of international humanitarian law, they abducted civilians, whom they executed, thus committing a war crime against the civilian population
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: Chronologically, by date
The fund is not expected to grow
LANGUAGE: Serbian
LIST OF CONTENTS:
Box no. 1
• Case of Milan Lukić – criminal complaint, examination records, verdict, decision on dismissal of the Defence Counsel’s appeal – District Court in Belgrade, the Supreme Court of Serbia
• Slučaj Ranisavljević – court documents (investigation order, records from the main trial, witness examination records, appeals, verdicts) – Higher Court in Bijelo Polje (Republic of Montenegro)
Box no. 2
• Strictly confidential material of the ŽTP
• Documents of the Commission for the Collection of Information about the Abduction of Passengers on Train 671 in Štrpci, established by the Parliament of Montenegro
• Various memoranda relating to the abduction of passengers
• Petitions for help and various memoranda by family members of the kidnapped (1993 – 1996)
• Newspaper articles – deportation of refugees, Case of Milan Lukić, abductions
• Powers of attorney
• Miscellaneous