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Transitional Justice Should Be Part of Serbia’s Accession to the EU

Transitional Justice Should Be Part of Serbia’s Accession to the EU

logo_ICTJThe European Union has played a pivotal role over the last decades in ensuring respect for human rights and the rule of law in a long list of new member states running from the Baltic to the Aegean. It has done so by requiring candidate states to undertake difficult reforms, including tackling past and present human rights abuses. Serbia, which now is a candidate for EU membership, has much to do to address its long and troubling legacy of human rights violations before it can claim this prize.


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Responsibility for the camps in Serbia rests with the JNA

Responsibility for the camps in Serbia rests with the JNA

danas_logoAlmost everything is known about the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) camps for Croats set up in the territory of Serbia after the fall of Vukovar in the autumn of 1991. Civilians were taken to them from the area of Vukovar in contravention of an agreement reached between the JNA and the Croatian side. There were women and children among the detainees. Some 5,000 or so detainees were subjected to daily torture, including humiliation, starvation and inhuman conditions. These facilities were referred to as ‘camps’ even by JNA officers.


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Bosnia to Map Wartime Detention Camp Locations

Bosnia to Map Wartime Detention Camp Locations

BalkanInsight_logoA new project aims to create a comprehensive database of all the prison camps and other wartime detention facilities across the country over the next five years.


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