Members of the association of families of injured veterans from Zrenjanin have reached day three of their hunger strike in protest at plans to place a memorial plaque on the site in Stajićevo and Begejci where detention camps for Croats once stood.
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Forum for Transitional Justice is the Humanitarian Law Center’s publication with reviews, which deals with the problems and aspects that are important for transitional justice in post-conflict societies of the Western Balkans. The Forum for transitional justice publishes articles about national war crimes trials and criminal/legal aspects of the ICTY, mechanisms for truth-seeking and truth-telling, reparations, and institutional reforms in countries of the Western Balkans, as well as presenting experiences of other post-conflict societies in dealing with past crimes.
The third issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice (September 2009) is dealing with the issue of the European Union and transitional justice: from retributive to restorative justice in the Western Balkans.
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On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, August 31st 2009, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented the interim results of the record of killed and disappeared Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in the period from January 1st 1998 to December 31st 2000 at the media Center in Belgrade.
August 21st 2009 – At Korićanske stijene near Vlašiću, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, victims’ families and former camp detainees commemorated the 200 non-Serb civilians from Prijedor killed, 17 years after the massacre. On August 21st 1992, they were taken from the camp at Trnopolje and killed at Korićanske stijene. The exhumation of their mortal remains from the chasm into which they were thrown commenced this year.
Nataša Kandić, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) was awarded the annual Schwarzkopf Europe Prize this year, along with Vesna Teršelič, the Leader of Documenta from Zagreb, and Mirsad Tokača, the Director of the Research and Documentation Centre from Sarajevo.
On July 8th 2009 the Association of families of prisoners and missing persons from Zvornik Municipality organised a gathering in the village of Đulići on war crime trials and investigations into war crimes committed against the civilians of Đulići and other Bosniak villages of the Municipality of Zvornik in 1992.