Members of the Advisory Committee on the Archives of the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ACA) visited Belgrade at the end of December 2007 to discuss the future of the Hague Tribunal archive with representatives of the authorities and NGOs.
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A Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) attorney filed three compensation lawsuits against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Mušan Džebo, Enes Bogilović, Ahmet Kamenica, Mujo Vatreša, Selim Nuhanović, Halil Durmišević, Senad Jusufbegović, Fehim Dudević, and Fadil Čardaković [all from Žepa], because of the state’s responsibility for their detention in Šljivovica and Mitrovo Polje camps during the summer of 1995 and torture committed against them by members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior. The compensation lawsuits were filed on 23 November and 20 December as part of the support programme to victims of past human rights violation in exercising their right to reparation.
During the period: 1 October – 15 December 2007, the Humanitarian Law Center-Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) conducted research on the application of Anti-discrimination Law and the Law on the Use of Languages in Kosovo public companies. The research included the following companies: Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK)1, Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo (PTK)2, Kosovo Railways, Kosovotrans, Termokos, Town Central Heating Gjakovë/Đakovica, Priština/Prishtinë Airport, regional public companies for water supply and sewage, public utility companies, as well as companies for maintenance of parks, cemeteries and open market places. The research was conducted in all five regions of Kosovo (Prishtinë/Priština, Prizren/Prizren, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Peja/Peć i Mitrovicë/Mitrovica) in main offices and regional centres.
Application of Anti-discrimination Law and Law on the Use of Languages in Kosovo Public Companies
In view of the news published on the B92 web page on 12 December 2007, which stated that Jovan Mirilo “provided the Humanitarian Law Center non-governmental organization with the video tape” showing the execution of six Bosniaks from Srebrenica committed in July 1995, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) reiterates that it obtained the tape from Dušan Kosanović, a member of the Scorpions unit, in November 2004. Dušan Kosanović testified about this before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber on 11 April 2006.
Between 12 and 15 December 2007, Francisco Soberon was a guest of HLC in Belgrade and participated in the Seminar: Reparations – legal and moral obligations of the state, which HLC organized on 14 December in cooperation with the International Center for Transitional Justice with the financial support of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
On 13 December 2007, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD) organized in Belgrade, Serbia, a screening of the Marcel Schüpbach film: Carla’s List, followed by a panel discussion in which Serbian human rights activists and journalists discussed the impact of the ICTY, and specifically the role of Carla Del Ponte as one-time Chief Prosecutor, on Serbia’s attempts, or lack thereof, to deal with the past. On the same day, Carla’s list was also screened in Sarajevo by Association Pravo Ljudski in cooperation with the Research and Documentation Center, in Zagreb by Documenta, and in The Hague by Stichting Movies That Matter.