“Depth two” video collage

From February until June 2016 over 700 citizens of Serbia and Kosovo saw the documentary film “Depth Two”. The film was aired in Kragujevac, Čačak, Subotica, Pančevo, Belgrade, Novi Pazar, Niš, as well as in Pristina in Kosovo. Every screening was followed by a discussion with the authors, in which victims and their families, civil society activists, students, journalists, artists and other experts from various fields participated. This short video collage highlights some of the discussion moments and messages of citizens of Serbia and Kosovo to their compatriots and representatives of institutions.

The film, a co-production of HLC and Non Aligned Films, premiered at the 66th International film festival in Berlin (Berlinale) in February 2016, and was subsequently shown at festivals in Thessaloniki, Wiesbaden, Belgrade, Novi Sad and London.
It won the Award for Best Film Editing at the Beldocs International documentary film festival in Belgrade, and the Grand Jury Award at the Open City festival in London. In late July 2016 the film won the Critics Award at the Atlántida Film Fest in Spain.
The film is a part of the Batajnica Memorial Initiative, aimed at creating a memorial site for victims found in Batajnica.

Srebrenica: Victims’ 21-years-long search for the truth and its acknowledgement

On the occasion of marking the 21st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) organized a debate dedicated to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. The panellists Nidžara Ahmetašević, Ivica Đikić, Florence Hartmann and Dejan Anastasijević discussed before a hall full of people at the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, the responsibility for the killing of several thousands of people in and around Srebrenica during July 1995, and the years’ long struggles of victims of this crime for the truth and its acknowledgement.

Open Letter to E.U. & U.S. Leaders

8 July 2016: To mark the 17th Anniversary of the Bytyqi murders, please read this Open Letter to European Union and United States leaders on the failures of Serbia’s war crimes processes and in the Bytyqi case. The letter is signed by nearly forty experts with considerable experience in government, academia, and within the NGO community on the Balkans.

Marking the 21st anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica

On the occasion of marking the 21st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the Humanitarian Law Center hereby invites you to join us in our endeavour to

Learn and Talk about Srebrenica

7 July 2016, Belgrade

 

13:00 – Media centar, 1st floor (Great Hall)

Presentation of an Interactive Narrative: SREBRENICA: GENOCIDE IN EIGHT ACTS

Speaker: Mirko Klarin, author of the narrative, Director of SENSE Agency

The events that took place over seven days in July 1995 in Srebrenica were the subject of the most extensive criminal investigation in Europe since World War II. The details of what transpired have been thoroughly reconstructed in the course of the dozen or so trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The testimonies of the survivors of the mass executions, the family members of the murder victims, of those who witnessed the crimes and those who carried them out, as well as the evidence of forensic experts who dug up the Srebrenica killing fields have been recorded in hundreds of thousands of pages of transcripts and saved in tens of thousands of hours of video footage from the courtroom. Countless seized military and police documents, transcripts of intercepted conversations between the perpetrators, video recordings and photos of the captured victims, aerial photographs of the detention, execution and burial sites, and so many other exhibits introduced into evidence make up the ICTY’s vast court files. All this material is public and at the disposal of those who may want to learn how the ICTY investigated, reconstructed and prosecuted the crimes committed in Srebrenica. The interactive narrative SREBRENICA: GENOCIDE IN EIGHT ACTS is a window onto this living historical archive. It contains, among other things, the full audio visual presentations produced by the SENSE Documentation Centre in Potočari.

19:00 – Center for Cultural Decontamination

A discussion with:

Ms. Florence Hartmann, journalist and former spokesperson of the ICTY Prosecutor’s Office, author of the recently published book „The Srebrenica Affair: The Blood of Realpolitik“

Mr. Ivica Đikić, publicist and writer, editor of Novosti (Croatia), author of the recently published documentary novel ’Beara’

Ms. Nidžara Ahmetašević, journalist and publicist from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr. Dejan Anastasijević, journalist from Serbia

The discussion will be moderated by Ms. Sandra Orlović, Executive Director of Humanitarian Law Center

We will discuss Srebrenica in July 1995, its meaning for Serbia in July 2016 and its meaning for the region and the international community. We will also discuss the post-war manipulation of facts; what the community of genocide survivors thinks and speaks about Srebrenica, who listens to them today and whether their words mean anything to anyone.

Simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided during both events.

The organization of these events is sponsored by the Swiss Embassy to Serbia and to Montenegro.

Glavonic’s Depth Two wins at Open City

The film investigates the story behind a mass grave discovered in 2001 in a suburb of Belgrade.

Review of Transitional Justice in Serbia

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented its triennial report “Transitional Justice in Serbia in the Period from 2013 to 2015” on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016. The aim of the Report is to inform the domestic and international public about the progress made in the implementation of transitional justice in this post-conflict society, by offering an analysis of the achievements and problems in the functioning of transitional justice mechanisms noted in Serbia in the period 2013-2015.

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN SERBIA in the period from 2013 to 2015

The aim of the report „Transitional Justice in Serbia in the period from 2013 to 2015“ is to inform the domestic and international publics on the progress of the process of establishing transitional justice in Serbia.

(srpski) Pamtimo žene silovane u ratu!

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Award for „Depth Two“ Film

The Jury of the 9th International Documentary Film Festival „Beldocs“ awarded Jelena Maksimović for the best edited documentary feature for „Depth Two“ Film because of „identifying the meaningful corelation between testimonies about a crime and a silent world of landscapes and objects, which seem as if they have remembered everything“.

“Depth Two” A Barrier To Contamination Of Memory of Victims

“Depth Two”, a film directed by Ognjen Glavonić, was screened at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade on May 13th, 2016, before a hall full of people. This was the première of the film in Belgrade, following the screenings at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and Festivals in Thessaloniki and Wiesbaden, as well as in other cities in Serbia and Kosovo.