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The Belgrade War Crimes Chamber reached and announced the verdict on 12 June 2008, finding defendants Dragan Slavković, Ivan Korać, and Siniša Filipović guilty of committing a war crime against the civilian population in the Municipality of Zvornik, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the period from April to July 1992 pursuant to Article 142 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ). Slavković was sentenced to 15 years in prison; Korać to 13, and Filipović to 3 years in prison. Defendant Dragutin Dragićević was acquitted of all charges.
The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest ordered the Republic of Serbia Ministry of Interior (MoI) on 23 May 2008 to inform the Humanitarian Law Center, without any delay and at the latest within three days from receiving the decision, if it possesses a document or other legal act concerning detention camps in Šljivovica and Mitrovo Polje for Bosniaks from Žepa and to deliver the list of MoI officers that worked in these camps. HLC received the Commissioner’s decision on 29 May 2008.
On 6 June 2008 Priština District Court International Trial Chamber, presided by international judge Hajnalk Karpati, found Florim Ejupi guilty of terrorism for his role in an a attack on the Niš-Express bus in Livadice in the vicinity of Podujevo on 16 February 2001 in which 11 Serbs were killed and 46 wounded, and convicted him to 40 years in prison.
The trial of two Croatian generals, Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, for crimes committed against civilians and prisoners of war in theMedak Pocket was conducted with efficiency and a high degree of professionalism; the Presiding Judge prevented the politicisation of the trial and gave the victims who participated in the trial dignity. However, the verdict reached on 30 May 2008, though it established that war crimes against Serbian civilians and prisoners of war had been committed in 1993, ignored the facts pointing to the responsibility of the defendants.
The Požarevac District Court confirmed the verdict reached by the Veliko Gradište Municipal Court, which ordered the father of the juvenile I.Ž, as the legal guardian of I.Ž, to pay 550,000 Dinars in damages to I.R, a juvenile Roma boy from Miljević [Golubac Municipality] in compensation for sexual abuse committed against him by I.Ž. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the Center for Minority Rights (CMR), and the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) initiated the compensation lawsuit on behalf of I.R. on 22 March 2005.
After careful consideration of available evidence about the murder of several dozens of Kosovo Albanians (42 victims have been identified so far) on March 25, 1999 in Trnje/Ternje village, Suva Reka municipality, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) has cause to believe that Božidar Delić, a retired major-general and another 10 persons, mostly members of the 549th motorized brigade of the Yugoslav Army (YA) under his command and a number of members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (MUP Serbia) acted in accordance with a preconceived plan and agreement and committed these murders thus becoming criminally responsible for committing a war crime against the civilian population from Article 142, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (KZ SRJ), in connection with Article 22 of the KZ SRJ as co-perpetrators, while some of them are charged as instigators according to Article 23 of the KZ SRJ and accomplices according to Article 24, paragraph 2 of the KZ SRJ.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and HLC-Kosovo call on the government of Kosovo to order an investigation into the Human Rights Watch (HRW) allegations that after June 1999 Serbs kidnapped in Kosovo were held in detention camps in Albania and that some of them had their internal organs removed. HLC and HLC-Kosovo urge the UNMIK administration to publicly disclose the report titled Court Investigation and Fact Finding in Albania from February 2004 regarding the removal of internal organs of Serbian prisoners in northern Albania.