Thursday, March 30, 2011, marks the 12th anniversary of a crime committed against 34 Albanian civilians in the Jović/Joviq village, Mališevo/Malishevë municipality by members of the Yugoslav Army (YA) and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia (MUP Serbia).
On March 28, 1999, during the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a reserve unit of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia (MUP Serbia) known as “Scorpions” killed 14 members of Bogujevci and Duriqi families in an operation of ethnic cleansing of Albanians from Podujevo.
On March 25 and 26, 1999 members of Serbian armed forces killed 114 Albanian men in the village of Mala Kruša/Krushë e Vogël, Prizren municipality, Kosovo.
The War Crimes Trial Chamber of the High Court in Belgrade sentenced Čeda Budisavljević, Mirko Malinović, Milan Bogunović, and Bogdan Gruičić to 12 years in prison each for war crimes committed against the civilian population in October 1991 in Lički Osik, Croatia. The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Croatia transferred this case to the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia based on the Agreement on Cooperation in Prosecuting War Crimes Perpetrators.
Nataša Kandić
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor’s office is experiencing problems initiating proceedings against Bosnian nationals because the world sees Serbia as the aggresor in Bosnia and Bosnia as the martyr of the 1990s, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević told Politika in an interview on 6 March 2011, following the arrest of retired Bosnian Army general Jovan Divjak on a warrant from Serbia.
Irregularities and Abuse of Power in War Crimes Proceedings in the Republic of Serbia , exmple: Case of the 37th Battalion of Special Police Units-, Confidential Report of November 15, 2010, released on March,10, 2011.
On March 3, 2011, Austrian authorities arrested retired Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Army general Jovan Divjak at the Vienna airport on an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia, identical to the one used in the arrest of Ejup Ganić.
18 years ago, on February 27, 1993, 19 civilians (18 Muslims and one Croat) were abducted from a train 671 going from Belgrade to Bar.
The Republic of Srpska Army, under the command of Milan lukić, killed Nijaz Ličina, Fehim Baki, Rifat Husović, sixteen-year-old Sead Dečević, Ismet Babačić, Halil Zupčević, Adem Alomerović, Rasim Ćorić, Fikret Memetović, Fevzi Zeković, Nijazim Kajević, Muhedin Hanić, Safet Preljević, Džafer Topuzović, Jusuf Rastoder, Zvezdan Zulčić, Tomo Buzov, and nineteen-year-old Esad Kapetanović.
Mortal remains, which were identified in a DNA analysis to belong to Halil Zupčević, were found on the bank of lake Perućac, in the village of Sjedača, located some 30 km from Srebrenica. Last summer, after the inspection of Lake Perućac, mortal remains of Rasim Ćorić from Prijepolje and Jusuf Rasoder from Berane were identified.
ICTY rendered a first instance judgment convicting Milan Lukić for crimes committed in Višegrad, but not for the crime committed in Štrpci.
A main hearing in the compensation case against the Republic of Serbia filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on behalf of Omer Čavić and another eight plaintiffs, former prisoners in the Šljivovica (Čajetina municipality) and Mitrovo Polje (Aleksandrovac Municipality) detention camps was held on February 18, 2011 before a Trial Chamber of the First Basic Court in Belgrade.