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A panel discussion on the role of archives in the protection and promotion of human rights was organized as part of the Central European University Summer course on the ‘Policy and Practice in Access to Digital Archives’ held in the period July 2nd-6th, 2012 in Budapest. Archivist Stana Tadić represented the Humanitarian Law Center at this gathering. Other participants in the panel discussion were Gabrijela Gavran, the Manager of the War Crimes Database at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Law, Gabriella Ivacs, Chief Archivist of the Open Society’s Archive in Budapest, Nikola Mokrović, an archivist from Documenta,Zagreb, and Alice Nemcova, an OSCE researcher-coordinator.
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The Mayor of Lovas, Mr. Stjepan Milas, has written to Natasa Kandic and the Humanitarian Law Center, expressing the gratitude of the Municipality of Lovas and that of the families of victims and survivors, for their support during the war crimes before the Higher Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Department, for crimes committed in Lovas.
On June 26, 2012 the Trial Panel of the Higher Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Department, presided over by judge Olivera Andjelkovic, delivered its judgment on fourteen defendants, convicted for having ordered or carried out an attack on Croat civilians in the village of Lovas, in the Republic of Croatia, during October and November 1991. The fourteen were convicted for having committed crimes of inhuman treatment, torture, violation of bodily integrity (beating, wounding or causing serious bodily harm) and murder, which resulted in the killing of 40 and the wounding of 11 Croat civilians.
Five ethnic Albanian men, suspected by the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, for the kidnapping and murder of Serb civilians during the internal conflict in South Serbia between 1999 and 2001, were released on May 9, 2012, following the suspension of legal activity against them. The HLC believes that the arrests, detention and their eventual release were politically motivated.
On June 19th, 2012, the trial chamber of the Higher Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Department, presided over by Judge Dragan Mirković, convicted four persons indicted for the commission of war crimes against Croat civilians in the Beli Manastir municipality between August 1991 and later the same year. Zoran Vukšić was sentenced to 20 years in prison Slobodan Strigić to 10 years, Bransko Hrnjak to 5 years and Velimir Bertić to 1 year and 6 months.