BELGRADE, December 1st, 2011 – A group of journalists from Kosovo visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Thursday and met with Sandra Orlović, Deputy Executive Director of HLC. A presentation of Volume One of the Kosovo Memory Book (KMB) was organized on this occasion.
BELGRADE, November 30th, 2011.
The Court of Appeal in Belgrade has rendered a judgment denying the compensation lawsuit filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on behalf of Munir Šabotić, a victim of torture, which he was subjected to by members of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in Novi Pazar in August and September 1994. The Court of Appeal accepted the appeal filed by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Serbia and modified the judgment, which originally had granted Munir Šabotić compensation to the amount of 300,000 RSD and had ordered him to pay for litigation expenses to the amount of 20,000 RSD. The HLC believes that the Court of Appeal arbitrarily and unjustly denied the right to compensation for the violation of human rights, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, the laws, and various international conventions. For this reason, the HLC will file a complaint on behalf of Munir Šabotić with the Constitutional Court of Serbia.
BELGRADE, November 28th, 2011 – Jahir Krasniqi and Jakup Tahiri, victims of unlawful detention in 1999, gave statements on Monday, November 28th, 2011 before the First Basic Court in Belgrade in a compensation lawsuit that HLC initiated against the Republic of Serbia because of its responsibility for torture and unlawful detention. Jahir Krasniqi and Jakup Tahiri testified about the torture and unlawful detention they were subjected to in Serbian prisons in the period from 1999 to 2000 and medical consequences that they still suffer due to this torture.
VUKOVAR, November 19th, 2011. The City of Vukovar and the “Vukovar Mothers” Association of Victims’ Parents and Family Members organized the 20th annual commemoration of the victims from Borovo Naselje on Saturday, November 19th . The commemoration programme began with an address by the President of the “Vukovar Mothers” Association, Manda Patko, in front of the ruins of the “Borovo– Commerce” centre located inside the area of the “Borovo” Factory, after which wreaths were laid and candles lit in memory of the victims who died during the defence of Borovo Naselje.
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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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.