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NGOs call on Serbian government to disclose mass graves dating from the Milošević regime

We support the foundation of a State Commission tasked with finding and marking all secret graves created after 1944, and we demand that the government of the Republic of Serbia establish another commission tasked with disclosing the remaining mass graves in Serbia, created during the time of the armed conflicts waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and also tasked with investigating allegations that bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims were incinerated in the Mačkatica factory, in the Obilić thermal-electric power plant, in Niš and Smederevo during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).


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Trbojevic verdict confirms murder of five prisoners

On December 4th 2009, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, which had found the accused Boro Trbojevic guilty of war crimes against the civilian population and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the war crimes prosecutor and the defence of the accused Trbojevic. In its reasoning the Supreme Court stated that the first-instance verdict does not contain the essential violation of the provisions of criminal procedure or criminal law that the second instance court considers ex officio.


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Pejović must be given police protection

We express serious concern for the security of Slobodan Pejović, a public witness of a war crime: the deportation of refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina from Montenegro to Republika Srpska Armed Forces in 1992.


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State obliged to pay damages to torture victim from 1993

On November 5th 2009, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) received a judgement rendered by the Belgrade First Municipal Court which ordered Serbia to pay 500,000 RSD in damages to Šefket Hukić, a Bosniak from the village of Ugao, in the municipality of Sjenica. Serbia is ordered to pay damages because of its responsibility for the torture suffered by Šefket Hukić at the hands of members of the Sjenica Police Department in December 1993. HLC, within its support programme for victims of past human rights violations, filed a compensation lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Šefket Hukić on April 18th 2007.


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Declare July 11th Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day

1/11/2009. Non-governmental human rights organizations from Serbia read out an invitation, in front of the Presidency of the Republic, to the President, Prime Minister and the presidents of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, calling on the National Assembly of Serbia to support the European Parliament Resolution, and pass a decision to designate July 11th 2010 Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day.


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Media in Serbia Silent about Biljana Plavšić’s Crimes

The media in Serbia reported on the release of the former President of Republika Srpska from prison and her arrival in Belgrade as if she were a pop star and not a war criminal found guilty of persecution and crimes against humanity.


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Belgrade District Court fails to establish Ilija Jurisić’s responsibility in the Tuzla Convoy Case beyond reasonable doubt

Belgrade — Belgrade District Court’s War Crimes Chamber, presided by Judge Vinka Nikićević-Beraha, sentenced the accused Ilija Jurisić to 12 years of imprisonment, for the criminal act of use of impermissible means of combat pursuant to Article 148 Para 2 in relation to paragraph 1 of the SFRY Criminal Code.


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