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Studentas from New York University in HLC

A group of students and professors from the New York University Centre for Global Affairs Graduate Programme, visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Sunday, July 1st, 2012. Marijana Toma and Dušan Jovanović from the HLC presented the Kosovo Memory Book project, the RECOM Initiative, war crimes trials’ monitoring, and the Diković Dossier to the students. They also discussed the work of the HLC and public reactions to the results achieved by the HLC. They also discussed war crimes trials in Serbia, the witness and victim protection programme, the problems of ‘denial’ in all of the societies of the former Yugoslavia, and the RECOM consultative process.

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Mediji o presudi za Lovas

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Reactions to the Judgment in the Lovas Case

Mirko Kovačić, a member of the Vukovar Mothers Association and himself a member of a victim’s family, stated that the failure of key witnesses and the army leadership in particular, to appear before the court had had a great impact on the final judgment. “The Army is in some way protected and nobody dares touch it,” he said. However, Kovačić noted that at least some satisfaction had been achieved; he added that it was important to talk about crimes and that this crime had not been neglected by the law. “Maybe this trial will prompt some other trials, and by some other trials, I primarily mean the crimes committed at Velepromet in Vukovar, which is still considered a taboo.”


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Diskriminisane žrtve

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Serbian Courts Award Derisory Compensation to Non-Serb Victims

The First Primary Court in Belgrade delivered a judgment obliging the Republic of Serbia to pay the amount of 1.3 million Serbian Dinars (RSD) in damages to five Kosovo Albanians in compensation for their unlawful detention lasting from eight to 17 months, and for torture inflicted on them by members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior and the Yugoslav Army. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that courts in the Republic of Serbia continue to award derisory, humiliating and unjust material compensation for past human rights abuses. The HLC will file an appeal against this judgment on behalf of the five, and will demand that the new Government establishes a level of just compensation for past human rights violations, which will abolish the de facto discrimination against non-Serb victims.


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