On February 18, 1993 members of the Užice Corps of the Yugoslav Army (YA) committed an artillery attack on the Kukurovići village, located along the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, on which occasion three people were killed: Uzeir Bulutović, Mušan Husović, and Fatima Sarač. Fearing for their lives, remaining residents fled the village, leaving their property behind to be destroyed and torched down.
Belgrade, February 9, 2011 – A new hearing was held before the High Court in Belgrade in the compensation proceedings for the former residents of the Kukurovići village near Priboj. The compensation lawsuit was filed by the Humanitarian Law Center in 2007 on behalf of 12 plaintiffs for the responsibility of the state for the destruction of their property during the attack of the members of the Užice Corps.
The War Crimes Trial Chamber of the Belgrade High Court, presided by Justice Snežana Nikolić-Garotić rendered a guilty verdict on January 21, 2011 in the case of nine individuals charged with war crimes against civilian population in Gnjilan/Gjilan, Kosovo. The accused are sentenced as follows: Agush Memishi, Selimon Sadiku, and Samet Hajdari to 15 years in prison; Faton Hajdari, Ahmet Hasani, and Nazif Hasani to 10 years in prison; Kamber Sahiti and Ferat Hajdari to 8 years in prison.
On December 15, 2010, the War Crimes Trial Chamber of the High Court in Belgrade handed down a new sentence in the case of Radojko Repanović, sentencing him to 20 years in prison for the war crime against the civilian population in Suva Reka/Suharekë. The Trial Chamber accepted the the opinion and arguments stated by Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Mioljub Vitorović in his closing argument.
The Humanitarian Law Center, who represented the families of those persons executed at Ovčara before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court (hereinafter the War Crimes Chamber), believes that the ICTY Appeals Chamber gave undo trust to a witness in the case.
Members of the 130th Battalion of the Croatian Army (CA) killed 18 Serb civilians in the village of Paulin Dvor, in the vicinity of Osijek, on December 11, 2010. The names of these civilians are: Milan Labus, Spasoje Milović, Bojo Grubišić, Božidar Sudžuković, Bosiljka Katić, Boško Jelić, Milan Katić, Dmitar Katić, Draginja Katić, Vukašin Medić, Darinka Vujnović, Anđa Jelić, Milica Milović, Petar Katić, Jovan Gavrić, Milena Rodić, Milka Lapčević, and Mariju Sudžuković.
After five years of trial, the Belgrade Higher Court War Crimes Department trial chamber, presided over by Judge Tatjana Vuković, rendered a judgment on November 22, 2010 which upset human rights defenders and deeply affected and offended families of victims.
BELGRADE – The Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade denied the request of the Republic of Serbia to revise a decision handed down by the District Court in Belgrade confirming the first instance decision of the First Municipal Court, which orders the Republic of Serbia to pay one million RSD in non-pecuniary damages each to Radmila and Dragomir Petrović from Belgrade for their emotional suffering caused by the death of their son, Dejan Petrović, who died on the premises of the Internal Affairs Department (OUP) of the Vračar municipality.
On November 25, 2010, the mixed Trial Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, presided by Justice Martti Harsia, upheld the judgment of the District Court of Peć/Pejë handed down on November 19, 2009 sentencing the accused Idriz Gashi to 14 years in prison for the war crime committed against a civilian.