On March 9th 2010 HLC Kosovo presented the results of the record of killed and missing in the area of the municipality of Podujevo/Podujevë between January 1st 1998 and June 14th 1999. The presentation, held at the Podujevo/Podujevë municipal assembly, was attended by the media and over 130 family members of the killed and missing. Families gave HLC Kosovo large number of relevant documents and photographs of the victims.
In its legally binding ruling of March 11th 2010, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia upheld the acquittal of Rahim Ademi and commuted Mirko Norac’s prison sentence for crimes committed against Serbian civilians and prisoners of war in the Medak pocket (Medački Džep). This caused new anguish for the families of the victims and convinced them that the Court has more empathy for those who commit war crimes than for their victims. From a human rights perspective, it is very difficult to accept the fact that the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia demonstrated more concern for the mental health of the accused Mirko Norac than for the suffering of the victims’ family members. In that regard, the following statement contained in the disposition of the Supreme Court’s ruling that “a high level of exposure to a war environment in circumstances of conducting a legitimate defensive war against the aggressor, lead to damage to his mental health which affected his ability to show good judgment” has political implications which should be avoided by any court.
On February 9th 2010, in the Gnjilane/Gjilan Municipal Assembly, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC – Kosovo) presented the interim results of the record of killed and missing Albanians in the municipalities of Gnjilane/Gjilan, Viti/Viti, Kamenica/Kamenica and Novo Brdo/Novobërde in the period from January 1st 1998 until June 14th 2000. Seventy family members of the killed and missing, media representatives from Serbia and Kosovo and representatives of KFOR attended the presentation.
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.
More than 140 family members of victims of the conflict in Kosovo in 1999 attended the presentation of data on the killed and missing in the municipality of Peć/Pejë organized by the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) on November 25th 2009.
More than 130 family members of the killed, dead and missing in the municipality of Prizren, attended the presentation of data on those killed, missing and victims in the municipality of Prizren/Prizren, organized by the Humanitarian Law of Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) on October 28th 2009.
Approximately 100 victims’ family members attended a presentation held in the Belgrade City Hall on October 6th 2009 where the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented the results of the list of the killed, dead, and missing Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in the period from 1998 until 2000. Ombudsman Saša Janković, representatives of the Republic of Serbia Government Commission on Missing Persons, a representative of the Republic of Serbia Ministry of Defence and a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross also attended the presentation besides victims’ family members.
HLC-Kosovo organized a presentation of the register of killed and missing on September 26th 2009 in the village of Izbica/Izbicë, in the municipality of Srbica/Skenderaj, were it presented data on the killed and missing in that village between March 27th and 29th and on May 11th 1999.
More than 400 victims’ family attended a presentation about the killed and missing in Srbica/Skenderaj municipality which was organized by HLC-Kosovo in that municipality on September 29th 2009.
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