August 21st 2009 – At Korićanske stijene near Vlašiću, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, victims’ families and former camp detainees commemorated the 200 non-Serb civilians from Prijedor killed, 17 years after the massacre. On August 21st 1992, they were taken from the camp at Trnopolje and killed at Korićanske stijene. The exhumation of their mortal remains from the chasm into which they were thrown commenced this year.
The Serbian Supreme Court overruled the judgement of the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber which had acquitted Sinan Morina, a one-time member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), of all charges that he had committed a war crime against Serbian civilians in Kosovo in 1998.
Non-governmental organizations from Serbia fully support the request by Žanka Stojanović and the Association of families of victims of the NATO bombing of the Serbian TV headquarters (RTS) in 1999, for the renewal and extension of court proceedings regarding the death of 16 RTS workers that the families believe were sacrificed by the state and military authorities of Serbia. The request was submitted to the Special prosecutor’s office for organised crime in Belgrade.
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Nataša Kandić, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) was awarded the annual Schwarzkopf Europe Prize this year, along with Vesna Teršelič, the Leader of Documenta from Zagreb, and Mirsad Tokača, the Director of the Research and Documentation Centre from Sarajevo.
The UN Committee Against Torture (”the Committee”) has considered the case of violence and racial abuse against a Roma man and as of May 8th 2009 has issued a decision finding Serbia to have been in violation of a number of provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (‘CAT’).
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