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Origin of Video Footage of Execution of Six Bosniaks from Srebrenica

In view of the news published on the B92 web page on 12 December 2007, which stated that Jovan Mirilo “provided the Humanitarian Law Center non-governmental organization with the video tape” showing the execution of six Bosniaks from Srebrenica committed in July 1995, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) reiterates that it obtained the tape from Dušan Kosanović, a member of the Scorpions unit, in November 2004. Dušan Kosanović testified about this before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber on 11 April 2006.


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Bulletin – Experience of Peru: Interview with Francisco Soberon

Between 12 and 15 December 2007, Francisco Soberon was a guest of HLC in Belgrade and participated in the Seminar: Reparations – legal and moral obligations of the state, which HLC organized on 14 December in cooperation with the International Center for Transitional Justice with the financial support of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.


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Serbia must hold the Yugoslav People’s Army accountable for crimes committed at Ovčara

On 20 November 2007, it will be sixteen years since the war crime at the Ovčara farm near Vukovar was committed. Not a single person has been convicted for the commission of this crime and Serbian state institutions have not yet revealed the entire truth about the former Yugoslav Peoples Army’s (YNA) role in this crime.


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Bulletin: Interview with Carla del Ponte

HLC: In light of your recent visit to Belgrade, 25-26 October 2007, how would you assess the authorities’ level of cooperation with your Office?


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Bulletin: An interview with Fatos Bytyqi

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor raised an indictment on August 23, 2006 against Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, members of Special Police Units of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, for the murder of three Bytyqi brothers, all US citizens, after 8 July 1999 when they were taken from the jail in Prokuplje by unidentified members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior.


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UNMIK and Kosovo Institutions Responsible for Journalists’ Security in Kosovo

Vesna Bojičić, a Voice of America journalist, has been physically assaulted in Kosovo for the fifth time since June 1999. She was assaulted for the first time after the international troops deployed to Kosovo in late June 1999 in her apartment in Pristina. The second time was in April 2000 in the Pristina Media House building.


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Press statement of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Hina Jilani, issued the following statement on her preliminary findings of her official visit to the Republic of Serbia.


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Human rights NGOs call on President of Serbia to Exclude War-Mongering State Officials from the Political Life of Serbia

Cultural Decontamination, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Women in Black and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, have appealed to Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica to start proceedings to determine the accountability of Aleksandar Simić, Adviser to the Prime Minister, and Dušan Proroković, State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo, for their undiplomatic and belligerent comments in relation to Kosovo and Montenegro. By assuming the right to give statements on behalf of Serbia and its citizens that Montenegro “does not qualify as being on a civilized level …”.


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Request to Access Information of Public Importance Related to the Bombing of the RTS Building

On 10 September 2007 the Humanitarian Law Center, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Women in Black and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights submitted a request to the Ministry of Defence, on the basis of article 15, clause 1 of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 120/04), to disclose information of public importance connected to the bombing of the building of Radio-Television Serbia (RTS).


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