The Kosovo Memory Book presented at the New School in New York

On November 15, 2011, at the New School for Social Research in New York, Natasa Kandic presented the first volume of theKosovo Memory Book to a number of students and representatives from the Consulate General of Kosovo and the American Council for Kosovo. The book contains the life narratives of 2,050 people who were killed, died or disappeared during the war in Kosovo in 1998. The audience strongly welcomed the publication of the list of all human losses in Kosovo. In registering the names of all casualties, the book is an instrument that has the potential to prevent the manipulation of numbers and denial of crimes.

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Additional evidence for camps in Vojvodina

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BELGRADE, November 10th, 2011 – Today, Vukovar 1991 Lawyers’ Association submitted an order issued by the former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army Security Department on October 10th, 1991 on the establishment of a camp in Stara Gradiška, to the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia, Vladimir Vukčević, as an annex to the criminal complaint filed in May 2008. As the President of the Association, Zoran Šugut, stated for the press, “camps Begejci, Stajićevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Niš, and Belgrade were also established on the basis of this order issued by the Department”, under the command of GeneralAleksandar Vasiljević.

 

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Artists from Kosovo visited HLC

BELGRADE, October 30th, 2011 – Group of four young artists from Kosovo visited Humanitarian Law Center last Sunday and there met with Sandra Orlović, Deputy Executive Director of HLC.


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20th Anniversary of the War Crime Committed in Lovas

LOVAS, October 18th, 2011 – Twenty years ago, on October 18th, 1991, after occupying the Croatian part of Srem, members of the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army and the Serbian paramilitary unit “Dušan Silni” (Dušan the Mighty) took 51 residents of the village of Lovas to a so-called “bloody grape harvest”. The residents, the youngest of whom was 19 years old and the oldest was 60 years old, were forced, under the threat of use of weapons, to go through a minefield. On this occasion, 21 residents of the village were killed and 14 were wounded. The proceedings before the Higher Court in Belgrade in this case have been pending for 3 years already.


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Peticija za odgovornu Srbiju!

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