BELGRADE, October 25th, 2011 – Clint Williamson, Chief of the Special Investigative Task Forces, visited the Humanitarian Law Center today.
During their discussion with Nataša Kandić, representatives of the Task Force presented frameworks for war crimes and organized crime investigations, which entail verification of accounts referring to detention sites, missing persons, torture, killings and mass graves, and which relate to allegations in the report by Dick Marty for the period 1999-2000 in Kosovo.
The HLC gave its full support to the work of the Task Force, and stressed how important it is for victims’ families to resolve the issue of missing persons and mass graves.
PRIBOJ, October 22nd, 2011 – 19th anniversary of the war crime committed in Sjeverin, in which 16 Bosniak civilians, citizens of the Republic of Serbia were killed, was marked on Saturday, October 22nd. Victims’ families and friends laid flowers and paid respect to their closest family members and friends in the village of Mioče (BiH), where they were taken off the bus by members of the paramilitary formation “Osvetnici” (Avengers). Representatives of political parties, representatives of Bosniak cultural and religious institutions from Sandžak and several representatives of non-governmental organizations (including representatives of the Humanitarian Law Center) attended the commemoration.
The 10th Sabotage Detachment, unit of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) participated in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. It has been established that members of this detachment took part in two mass executions of Muslims from Srebrenica.
On 16 July 1995, at the Branjevo Military Farm in the village of Pilice, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), eight members of the 10th Sabotage Detachment, acting on orders issued by Dragomir Pećanac and Milorad Pelemiš, executed approximately 1,200 Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica. The firing squad included Franc Kos, Marko Boškić, Aleksandar Cvetković, Dražen Erdemović, Brano Gojković, Vlastimir Golijan, Zoran Goronja, and Stanko Savanović.
The second mass execution was conducted on 23 July 1995 in the village of Bišina, when members of the 10th Sabotage Detachment, following orders issued previously by Petar Salapura and Milorad Pelemiš, killed at least 39 Muslim prisoners. The identity of the soldiers who conducted this execution remains unknown.
Dossier “The 10th Sabotage Detachment of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska” can be downloaded here.
Digital narrative based on the dossier can be seen here.
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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia against more than 30 individuals, members of the former Territorial Defense (TO) and police station in Tenja (Croatia), as well as a number of members of the Novi Sad Corps of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), members of military and civilian secret services, and groups under the command of Željko Ražnatović Arkan for war crimes committed in Tenja in 1991 against the civilian population and prisoners of war.