Radio Free Europe: New investigations of crimes in Zvornik

RFE-logoThe Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor submitted a request to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Chamber of Belgrade District Court to conduct an investigation against six persons, suspected of having committed war crimes against Roma civilians in the villages of Skočići, Malešić, Petkovci and Drinjaca, in the municipality of Zvornik in 1992.


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State obliged to pay damages to torture victim from 1993

On November 5th 2009, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) received a judgement rendered by the Belgrade First Municipal Court which ordered Serbia to pay 500,000 RSD in damages to Šefket Hukić, a Bosniak from the village of Ugao, in the municipality of Sjenica. Serbia is ordered to pay damages because of its responsibility for the torture suffered by Šefket Hukić at the hands of members of the Sjenica Police Department in December 1993. HLC, within its support programme for victims of past human rights violations, filed a compensation lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Šefket Hukić on April 18th 2007.


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Declare July 11th Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day

1/11/2009. Non-governmental human rights organizations from Serbia read out an invitation, in front of the Presidency of the Republic, to the President, Prime Minister and the presidents of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, calling on the National Assembly of Serbia to support the European Parliament Resolution, and pass a decision to designate July 11th 2010 Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day.


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Media in Serbia Silent about Biljana Plavšić’s Crimes

The media in Serbia reported on the release of the former President of Republika Srpska from prison and her arrival in Belgrade as if she were a pop star and not a war criminal found guilty of persecution and crimes against humanity.


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