The Appellate Court in Belgrade refused the compensation request of Ryva, Gani, Nimetullah, Hakia, Lumnia, and Asman Gigollaj, wife and children of the late Behram Gigollaj, who was beaten to death by unidentified assailants on March 24, 1999 in Mataruška Banja.
On November 1, 2010 the War Crimes Trial Department of the High Court in Belgrade sentenced Stanko Vujanović to nine years in prison for war crimes committed against the civilian population in Vukovar, Croatia.
Members of the Dušan Silni volunteer unit from Serbia and Serbs from the village of Lovas, with the artilery support of the Second Guard Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), attacked the undefended village of Lovas on October 10, 1991, killing 21 Croatian civilians: Mirko Grgić, Mato Adamović, Danijel Badanjak, Cecilija Badanjak, Antun Jovanović, Anka Jovanović, Katarina Pavličević, Juraja Poljak, Josip Kraljević, Alojzije Polić, Mato Keser, Josip Poljak, Ivan Ostrun, Drago Pejić, Mijo Božić, Tomo Sabljak, Vido Krizmanić, Stipe Mađarević, Pave Đaković, Stipe Pejić, and Živan Antolović.
Eighteen years ago, on October 22, 1992, Muslims from Sjeverin were on their way to Priboj, taking care of their daily business, riding on a bus from Rudo to Priboj across the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, just like any other day.
On its decision of October 5, 2010 rendered in a retrial, the District Court in Gjilan/Gnjilan pronounced unified sentences for the accused Shefket Musliu and Besim Tahiri charged with the commission of the criminal act of kidnapping under Article 64 paragraphs 1, 2, and 4 of the CCS and an attempted criminal act of extortion under Article 180 of the CCS. The accused Musliu was sentenced to a unified prison sentence of 10 years and six (6) months in prison while Besim Tahiri was sentenced to six (6) years and nine (9) months in prison.
BELGRADE, November 30th, 2011.
The Court of Appeal in Belgrade has rendered a judgment denying the compensation lawsuit filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on behalf of Munir Šabotić, a victim of torture, which he was subjected to by members of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in Novi Pazar in August and September 1994. The Court of Appeal accepted the appeal filed by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Serbia and modified the judgment, which originally had granted Munir Šabotić compensation to the amount of 300,000 RSD and had ordered the Republic of Serbia to pay for litigation expenses to the amount of 20,000 RSD. The HLC believes that the Court of Appeal arbitrarily and unjustly denied the right to compensation for the violation of human rights, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, the laws, and various international conventions. For this reason, the HLC will file a complaint on behalf of Munir Šabotić with the Constitutional Court of Serbia.
In the Croatian armed forces offensive on Mrkonjić Grad municipality on October 10, 1995, 480 Serbs were killed or disappeared. Up to this date, only 219 bodies were found and identified.
According to the data the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) obtained in March and April 1996 during the exhumation of bodily remains buried in the Orthodox Christian’s cemetery in Mrkonjić Grad, the remains of 181 were found in that location. On that occasion forensic experts identified 136 bodies: 34 civilians (nine women and 25 men) and 102 members of the Army of Republika Srpska. Seven unidentified bodies were in civilian clothes (two women and five men) and the remaining 38 unidentified bodies were in military uniforms.
Out of 136 identified bodies 25 were civilians between the age of 60 and 88 years. The oldest indentified male victim was Jovan Lazendić from Podbrdo, who was 91 years old when he was killed, and the oldest female victim was Ljubica Oroz from the village of Bočac, Mrkonjić Grad municipality, who was killed at the age of 90.
On September 16, 2010 the Municipal Court in Peć/Pejë convicted Bekim, Engjell, and Prenk Luli of acts of perjury and sentenced them to suspended jail sentences of five months. In a separate trial, the court convicted Gjerg Luli and Kole Krasniqi of the same crimes. Kole Krasniqi is the only one whose jail sentence was not suspended and must be serevd.
Serb forces killed 27 civilians, including children, in Gornje Obrinje / Obri e Epërme, Kosovo on September 26, 1998.