The radicalization of the Serbian political scene since Kosovo’s declaration of independence on Sunday has put the country’s few, though dedicated, human rights defenders and liberally-oriented politicians at risk. Not since 1999, when Serbian forces under Slobodan Milosevic’s direction were ethnically cleansing Kosovo of its Albanian inhabitants, have Serbian human rights defenders been so vulnerable.
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Amnesty International is calling on the Serbian authorities and specifically Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and President Boris Tadić to urgently condemn attacks on human rights activists and on ethnic minorities in the country.
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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the Research and Documentation Center (RDC), and Documenta, are organizing a Third Regional Forum on Mechanisms of Truth-seeking and Truth-telling about War Crimes Committed in the former Yugoslavia (Forum) on 11 and 12 February 2008 in Belgrade.
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I am aware that I do not have support in Serbia for what I do and that there are a lot of people within the state insititutions who are attacking me in order to draw public attention away from the misdeeds they committed in the past. Vojislav Šešelj and his ultra-nationalist party, Serb Radical Party [SRS] are among these people. The trial of Vojislav Šešelj for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, began in The Hague in December 2007. During the main hearing, held in January 2008, defendant Šešelj started revealing information concerning my privacy and confidential contacts with witnesses of war crimes.
War crimes trials in Serbia are being held before the War Crimes Trials Chamber of the Belgrade District Court founded in July 2003. In addition, two members of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia (MUP Serbia) are being tried before the District Court in Požarevac for war crimes committed in Kosovo (Orahovac Case). The Niš District Court brought a first instance decision in the trial of two members of MUP Serbia for a murder committed during the armed conflict in Kosovo (the Emini Case), while in the Pakšec Case the Novi Sad District Court brought a first instance decision for the criminal offences of murder and rape.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) helps societies in the territory of the former Yugoslavia to establish the rule of law and to come to terms with the legacy of massive human rights violations in order to prevent their recurrence, establish the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators and ensure that justice is done.