The compensation lawsuit that the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) initiated in August 2008 against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of sisters Saranda, Jehona and Lirie Bogujevci, who were seriously injured in the war crime committed in Podujevo/Podujevë on March 28th, 1999 by members of the Scorpions unit, which is a reserve unit of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, continued before the Higher Court in Belgrade.
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A First Instance Court in Belgrade has delivered a judgment requiring the Republic of Serbia to pay the sum of RSD360,000 (Serbian Dinars) to Sead Rovčanin, a Bosniak from the village of Gračanica, in the municipality of Prijepolje. The court found the state responsible for the torture inflicted on Mr. Rovčanin in October 1993 by members of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Interior (MOI). The Humanitarian Law Center believes that this judgment, should it become final, will bring only partial satisfaction to Mr. Rovčanin as he has waited 19 years for recognition of the injustice that he suffered and because the perpetrators have have yet to be punished and are still working as police officers.
A meeting between representatives of civil society organizations and the delegation of the Kingdom of Norway in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe led by the Head of the delegation. Ms. Karin Woldseth and the Deputy Head of the delegation, Ms. Lisa Christoffsen was held on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Vesna Petrović from the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Vladimir Petronijević from Group 484, Dušan Janjić from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Ivana Stanković from Praxis, and Milan Antonijević from YUCOM attended the meeting besides Nataša Kandić and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC.
A group of participants in the program Youth Reconciliation Ambassadors organized by the Youth Education Committee from Belgrade visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. The program gathers young individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia who exchange experiences of their societies in the processes of transition and reconciliation, with a special focus on the European integration as a supplemental mechanism in these processes.
Law on Amendments to the Law on Non-Contentious Procedure, adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on 31st August 2012, prescribes a procedure for determination of date and place of birth of persons not registered in birth registry books. Thus, the first step was made towards solving the problem of several thousands of legally invisible persons in Serbia. Through the aforementioned procedure, the persons who do not fulfil conditions for registration in birth registry book in an administrative procedure will be able to exercise their rights through a separate court procedure which recognizes the particulars of the problems they are facing.
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, the Coalition for RECOM calls on the governments of post-Yugoslav countries to break the silence about secret graves, because that silence is the major contributor to the public culture of silence about what happened in the past.