Nevladine organizacije i porodice žrtava obeležile 15 godina od zločina u Štrpcima
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Government Should Unequivocally Condemn and Quell Violence
(Brussels, February 27, 2008) – Serbia’s government should act quickly to reduce the dangerously hostile climate for human rights groups, independent journalists and ethnic minority communities in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mr Bernard Kouchner
Minister of Foreign and
European Affairs
37 Quai d’Orsay
75351 Paris Cedex 07
Paris, 27 February 2008
Appeal addressed to the French authorities requesting them to take action to promote the freedom of expression and protect human rights defenders in Serbia
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On Wednesday, 27 February, it will be 15 years since the kidnapping and killing of 18 Bosniaks and one Croat, all citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, who travelled on the Belgrade-Bar train. Only one perpetrator has been convicted of this crime. Families are still searching for the bodies of their closest family members.
On 21 February 2008, around 22:00, after the protest against the independence of Kosovo, unidentified persons threw a flare at, and damaged, the doorstep and the door of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) office. The security guard of the company next door to the HLC office prevented the fire from spreading; putting out the fire after the attackers left the scene. HLC heard from eyewitnesses that police conducted an investigation into this event the same night around midnight. Even though HLC had asked the police, through the office of Police Director Milorad Veljović, to provide security for the HLC office, not a single police officer could be seen either during or after the protest or the mass held at the St. Sava Temple located in the vicinity of the HLC office.
Your Excellency,
Front Line is deeply concerned following information received of threats against human rights defenders, including Natasa Kandic, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre, and human rights organisations operating in Serbia, in the context of the official declaration of Kosovo’s independence.