Additional evidence for camps in Vojvodina

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BELGRADE, November 10th, 2011 – Today, Vukovar 1991 Lawyers’ Association submitted an order issued by the former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army Security Department on October 10th, 1991 on the establishment of a camp in Stara Gradiška, to the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia, Vladimir Vukčević, as an annex to the criminal complaint filed in May 2008. As the President of the Association, Zoran Šugut, stated for the press, “camps Begejci, Stajićevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Niš, and Belgrade were also established on the basis of this order issued by the Department”, under the command of GeneralAleksandar Vasiljević.

 

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Artists from Kosovo visited HLC

BELGRADE, October 30th, 2011 – Group of four young artists from Kosovo visited Humanitarian Law Center last Sunday and there met with Sandra Orlović, Deputy Executive Director of HLC.


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20th Anniversary of the War Crime Committed in Lovas

LOVAS, October 18th, 2011 – Twenty years ago, on October 18th, 1991, after occupying the Croatian part of Srem, members of the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army and the Serbian paramilitary unit “Dušan Silni” (Dušan the Mighty) took 51 residents of the village of Lovas to a so-called “bloody grape harvest”. The residents, the youngest of whom was 19 years old and the oldest was 60 years old, were forced, under the threat of use of weapons, to go through a minefield. On this occasion, 21 residents of the village were killed and 14 were wounded. The proceedings before the Higher Court in Belgrade in this case have been pending for 3 years already.


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Peticija za odgovornu Srbiju!

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Clint Williamson visit to HLC

FHP_srb_logobezBELGRADE, October 25th, 2011 – Clint Williamson, Chief of the Special Investigative Task Forces, visited the Humanitarian Law Center today.

During their discussion with Nataša Kandić, representatives of the Task Force presented frameworks for war crimes and organized crime investigations, which entail verification of accounts referring to detention sites, missing persons, torture, killings and mass graves, and which relate to allegations in the report by Dick Marty for the period 1999-2000 in Kosovo.

The HLC gave its full support to the work of the Task Force, and stressed how important it is for victims’ families to resolve the issue of missing persons and mass graves.

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