By pressuring the Beobuk publisher to withdraw the book: The Jewel of Medina and by requesting an apology and repentance, the Islamic Community in Serbia has prescribed what books must not be read, thus violating every citizen’s right to freely make their own judgment.
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The BiH Court War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo, presided by local judge Hilmo Vučinić, rendered a guilty sentence on 29 July 2008 convicting seven defendants, former members of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of Interior, for genocide committed against Muslims in Srebrenica. The primary defendant Miloš Stupar was sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment, Milenko Trifunović to 42, Aleksandar Radovanović to 42, Brano Džinić to 42, Slobodan Jakovljević to 40, Branislav Medan to 40, and Petar Mitrović to 38 years of imprisonment. Velibor Maksimović, Dragiša Živanović, Milovan Matić, and Miladin Stevanović were acquitted of all charges.
The First Municipal Court in Belgrade rendered a verdict on 12 June 2008 ordering the Republic of Serbia to pay damages to Ryvi, Gani, Haki, Lumnije, and Asman Gigollaj, the wife and children of late Behram Gigollaj, who was beaten to death by unidentified assailants on 24 March 1999 in Mataruška Banja, in the amount of three million dinars, because of the state’s responsibility for failing to prevent the assault.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a compensation lawsuit on 30 June 2008 against the Republic of Serbia, on behalf of Esed Avdagić, Omer Čavčić, Sabrija Ćesko, Zajko Imamović, Amir Mednolučanin, Munib Omanović, Šemso Ramić, Suljo Salić, and Galib Vatreš [Bosniaks from Žepa, BiH], because of the state’s responsibility for their detention in Šljivovica and Mitrovo Polje camps during the summer of 1995 and the torture members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior committed against them.
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The verdict rendered by the Osijek County Court [7 July 2008] convicting Antun Gudelj to the maximum sentence of twenty years of imprisonment is only the first step towards the clarification of the murder of peacekeepers. The state is obliged to investigate whether the murder of Josip Reihl Kir, Goran Zobundžija, and Milan Knežević and the attempted murder of Mirko Tubić were planned in order to obstruct negotiations and possible multinational solution as an alternative to the war. We would like to remind that the negotiators were killed on 1 July 1991, just prior to the escalation of the war in Croatia.
On July 8th, 2008, the War Crimes Trial Chamber of the Belgrade District Court presided by Justice Snežana Nikolić-Garotić handed down a decision sentencing Zdravko Pašić to 8 (eight) years in prison for war crimes committed against the civilian population. This case was transferred from the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia to the Office of the War Crimes Trial Chamber of the Republic of Serbia.
On the eve of the 13th Anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, human rights organizations demand