The Humanitarian Law Center and SENSE – Center for Transitional Justice will host the opening of the Audio-Visual Presentation The ICTY’s investigation, reconstruction and prosecution of crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995, to be held in Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade on September 14th 2015, at 6 p.m.
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared
The International Day of the Disappeared is marked on 30 August, and is aimed at raising awareness about the destiny of forcibly disappeared persons. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) draws attention to the fact that, according to the findings in 2015 of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (Committee), Serbia has failed to investigate and punish those responsible for the mass graves holding bodies of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia, including high-ranking persons involved, and has failed to provide reparations to the families of the victims.
A meeting between representatives of the Coalition Against Discrimination and the Coalition For Access to Justice, on one side, and Brankica Janković, Commissioner for Protection of Equality, on the other , was held August 25th, 2015, in the premises of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC).
The 10th issue of the bulletin through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE has been released!
This issue features an interview with Dr Vladimir Orlić, Chairman of the EU-Serbia Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee and a MP of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. In it Mr Orlić answers our questions about whether Serbia has recognised the importance of addressing the grave legacy of the past, how the Committee he chairs approaches this subject and in what way the National Assembly can contribute towards reconciliation in the Western Balkans.
Goran Miletić, Western Balkans Programme Director at Civil Rights Defenders, analyses whether and to what extent Serbia has met the political criteria for becoming an EU member.
The News section highlights current developments in the areas of transitional justice and Serbia’s EU integration process, and the War Crimes Trials section offers an overview of recently held trials and rulings delivered.
Send us your opinions and comments on the newsletter and/or the topics discussed to the e-mail address towardsJUSTICE@hlc-rdc.org. Discussion is also welcome on Twitter/#towardsJUSTICE.
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On 17 August 2015, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed criminal charges against two unidentified members of the 86th Detachment of the Special Police Unit (SPU) of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia (MoI), on reasonable suspicion that they killed 53 ethnic Albanian civilians, including 24 women and 23 children, on 17 April 1999 in the village of Poklek (Municipality of Glogovac). Criminal charges were also filed against Dragan Obradovic, former commander of the 86th Detachment of the SPU, and against the commander of the company which the perpetrators belonged to, on the charges of not preventing the crime and not punishing the perpetrators.
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