The Mayor of Lovas, Mr. Stjepan Milas, has written to Natasa Kandic and the Humanitarian Law Center, expressing the gratitude of the Municipality of Lovas and that of the families of victims and survivors, for their support during the war crimes before the Higher Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Department, for crimes committed in Lovas.
A group of students and professors from the New York University Centre for Global Affairs Graduate Programme, visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Sunday, July 1st, 2012. Marijana Toma and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC presented the Kosovo Memory Book project, the RECOM Initiative, war crimes trials’ monitoring, and the Diković Dossier to the students. They also discussed the work of the HLC and public reactions to the results achieved by the HLC. They also discussed war crimes trials in Serbia, the witness and victim protection programme, the problems of ‘denial’ in all of the societies of the former Yugoslavia, and the RECOM consultative process.
Mirko Kovačić, a member of the Vukovar Mothers Association and himself a member of a victim’s family, stated that the failure of key witnesses and the army leadership in particular, to appear before the court had had a great impact on the final judgment. “The Army is in some way protected and nobody dares touch it,” he said. However, Kovačić noted that at least some satisfaction had been achieved; he added that it was important to talk about crimes and that this crime had not been neglected by the law. “Maybe this trial will prompt some other trials, and by some other trials, I primarily mean the crimes committed at Velepromet in Vukovar, which is still considered a taboo.”
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Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo has published the analyses from the trial “Arben Krasniqi et al”, known as “Klecka case”.
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A group of American academicians visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Friday, May 25th, 2012 as part of their political study visit, which is aimed at researching of how Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed after the toppling of Milošević. The study group is lead by Nicholas Wood, a former New York Times reporter in the region, and it gathers journalists, publicists, businessmen, and former ambassadors. In her opening address, Nataša Kandić, the HLC Executive Director, spoke about the current political situation in the country and the need for the society to deal with the past as soon as possible.
Students from Kosovo, who attend the Young Leaders School organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Priština/Prishtinë visited the Humanitarian Law Center on April 17th, 2012. They talked to Marijana Toma, who manages the Transitional Justice Education programme, and Dušan Jovanović, a member of the HLC team working on the identification of perpetrators of war crimes.
A group of students from The New School for Public Engagement from New York visited the Humanitarian Law Center. The students will stay in the region for two months during which they will do internships in non-governmental organizations and state institutions in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Albania. Sandra Orlović, the HLC Deputy Executive Director, Dušan Jovanović, a member of the HLC team working on the identification of perpetrators of war crimes, and Katarina Janković, who is in charge of the HLC Outreach activities, talked to the students.
A group of EULEX prosecutors and investigators for war crimes and organized crime visited the Humanitarian Law Center today. Nataša Kandić, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), presented the work of the HLC in her opening address. The HLC also presented the Kosovo Memory Book, the Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia in 2011, and Ljubiša Diković Dossier to the EULEX representatives. Upon the request of the EULEX representatives, the HLC handed them certain information relevant to the investigation of a case of war crime, and they also discussed future cooperation with regard to other cases.