On July 8th 2009 the Association of families of prisoners and missing persons from Zvornik Municipality organised a gathering in the village of Đulići on war crime trials and investigations into war crimes committed against the civilians of Đulići and other Bosniak villages of the Municipality of Zvornik in 1992.
Fifteen students from the Netherlands, Kosovo and Serbia, participants in the “Our future – European Integrations” project, visited the office of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and talked with Sandra Orlović, HLC deputy executive director, and Jelena Simić, regional coordinator of the initiative for RECOM project.
Over 140 people attended the presentations of the interim record of killed and missing in the territory of Kosovo municipalities of Đakovica and Orahovac. The two presentations, organized by HLC-Kosovo, took place at the Pastrik Hotel in Đakovica and the Cultural Center in Velika Kruša on July 4th and 5th respectively.
The French journalist Florence Hartmann, a former spokesperson of the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, is charged with “knowingly and wilfully interfering with the administration of justice by disclosing information in violation of an order of the Appeals Chamber dated 20 September 2005 and an order of the Appeals Chamber dated 6 April 2006, through means of authoring for publication a book entitled Paix et Châtiment, and by authoring for publication an article entitled “Vital Genocide Documents Concealed.”
BEOGRAD, 23 June 2009 – The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, presided by Judge Vesko Krstajić, found Damir Sireta guilty of the criminal act of a war crime against prisoners of war from Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (KZ SRJ), in relation to Article 22 of the KZ SRJ, and sentenced him to 20 years’ imprisonment.
BELGRADE, 22 June 2009 – The Office of the Republic Attorney General has submitted a request for revision of the Belgrade District Court’s judgement which confirmed the judgement rendered by the First Municipal Court relating to the lawsuit filed by Radmila and Dragomir Petrović from Belgrade against the Republic of Serbia. The First Municipal Court judgement had awarded Radmila and Dragomir Petrović RSD one million each in non-material damages due to psychological suffering caused by the death of their only son. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed the compensation lawsuit on behalf of Radmila and Dragomir Petrović on December 26th 2002.
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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and the Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms organized a seminar titled Transitional Justice – Basic Mechanisms, Challenges and Problems on June 18th in Novi Pazar. Approximately 40 participants, representatives of non-governmental organizations, associations of victims and ethnically cleansed citizens of the Priboj municipality, student associations, local media and individuals, attended the seminar.
BELGRADE, 18 June 2009 — The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, presided by Judge Snežana Nikolić-Garotić, found four members of the Scorpions, a reserve unit of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, guilty of committing a war crime against Albanian civilians on March 28th 1999 in Podujevo, Kosovo, and sentenced Željko Đukić, Dragan Medić and Dragan Borojević to 20 and Miodrag Šolaja to 15 years’ imprisonment.