War Crimes Prosecutor supports RECOM initiative

The Republic of Serbia War Crimes Prosecutor supports the initiative to form a commission mandated to investigate facts about war crimes (RECOM).

Saopštenje Koalicije protiv diskriminacije i partnerskih organizacija: Za efikasnu i pravnu državu

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Deutsche Welle: Serbo-Croat argument over camps in Stajićevo and Begejci

Members of the association of families of injured veterans from Zrenjanin have reached day three of their hunger strike in protest at plans to place a memorial plaque on the site in Stajićevo and Begejci where detention camps for Croats once stood.

Neodržavanje Povorke ponosa je neuspeh države

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FHP poklanja transkripte sa suđenja Slobodanu Miloševiću

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Beta: Media not interested in war crime trials

Beta, 22.09.2009. – Trials for war crimes before courts in Serbia are conducted professionally but there are few indictments, and these are mainly against low-ranking perpetrators, concluded a report prepared by a regional war crime trial monitoring team.

Radio Free Europe: Police acquitted of Bytyqi brothers murder

22.09.2009 – The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court acquitted two former members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, who were charged with torture and violating the Bytyqi brothers’ right to fair trial.

Završna reč na suđenju Iliji Jurišiću, predmet “Tuzlanska kolona”

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Organizacije za zaštitu ljudskih prava traže poštovanje prava i sloboda svih pojedinaca

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New issue of Forum for Transitional Justice

Forum for Transitional Justice is the Humanitarian Law Center’s publication with reviews, which deals with the problems and aspects that are important for transitional justice in post-conflict societies of the Western Balkans. The Fo­rum fo­r tran­si­tio­n­al justi­ce publishes articles about national war crimes trials and criminal/legal aspects of the ICTY, mechanisms for truth-seeking and truth-telling, reparations, and institutional reforms in countries of the Western Balkans, as well as presenting experiences of other post-conflict societies in dealing with past crimes.

The third issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice (September 2009) is dealing with the issue of the European Union and transitional justice: from retributive to restorative justice in the Western Balkans.