The HLC on the disappeared persons in the OSCE meeting

A side event dedicated to the fight against enforced disappearances in the OSCE region was held on Friday, 25 September 2015, as part of the annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of OSCE Participating States. The meeting, under the title of Combatting Enforced Disappearances in the OSCE Region – Progress and Way Forward, was organized by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. On behalf of the Humanitarian Law Center, Jelena Krstic presented the efforts to determine the fates of the people who went missing in the context of the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the Western Balkans region. The meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Professor Emmanuel Decaux, a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo and former chairman of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Mads Andenaes, and Bayram Shikhmuradov from Turkmenistan.

SIT Students’ Visit

Students of the School for International Training (SIT) visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Tuesday, 29 September 2015. The students attend various universities in the US, and they are staying in Serbia as part of the SIT Peace Study Programme organized within the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications.  

(srpski) Da li će žrtve ratnih zločina dočekati obeštećenje?

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(srpski) Nedopustivo ratnohuškačko novinarstvo devedesetih

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The debate on Srebrenica: Recognition is necessary for reconciliation

A documentary film entitled “Statement 710399” was shown last night in Belgrade Center for Cultural Decontamination. Following the screening there was a debate on the legacy of the genocide in Srebrenica, the possibilities of building trust and common remembrance, and the importance of court-established facts. Taking part in the debate were the film’s author and former spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Refik Hodzic, director of the SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice Mirko Klarin, a culturalist and activist from Banja Luka Srdjan Susnica, chief editor of the publishing house “Fabrika Knjiga” and columnist of the portal “Pescanik” Dejan Ilic and professor at the Faculty of Law of Union University in Belgrade Vesna Rakic Vodinelic.

(srpski) Srebrenica nije posledica rata, već cilj

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Presentation entitled “The ICTY’s investigation, reconstruction and prosecution of crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995“ is opened

An audio-visual presentation called „The ICTY’s investigation, reconstruction and prosecution of crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995“ was opened at the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD) on 14 September 2015, organized by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice in Pula. The exhibition was opened by Sandra Orlovic, executive director of the HLC, Mirko Klarin, director of SENSE, Munira Subasic of the Association of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, and Borka Pavicevic, director of the CZKD.

(srpski) Sudnica mala za generala i novinare

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Belgrade on Srebrenica Genocide Map

SENSE Center for Transitional Justice has produced an audio visual presentation, which has now been exhibited in the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade. In a brief and systematic way, the presentation shows the key facts about the Srebrenica genocide adjudicated by the Tribunal in The Hague. The work has been exhibited in collaboration with the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade and the SENSE Center for Transitional Justice in Pula

The Court illegally excluded the public from the trial of Nataša Kandić and the HLC in the lawsuit of Chief of Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces

At today’s hearing (15 September 2015) Judge Gordana Aranđelović, Presiding Judge in the lawsuit against Nataša Kandić and the HLC [General Diković’s lawsuit for libel and violation of honor], decided to exclude the public on the grounds of the courtroom being small and having no place for journalists. The first defendant, Nataša Kandić, legal representative of the HLC, Sandra Orlović, and lawyer Vladimir Gajić left the courtroom, saying that the decision was not based on the grounds prescribed by law adding it was a serious breach of the lawsuit and the principle of public hearing. Today, Nataša Kandić was planned to ask questions to General Diković.

Here you can see the lawsuit filed by Ljubisa Diković, as well as the minutes of the hearing held on 18 February 2015 and 19 May 2015 (available only in Serbian).