The Humanitarian Law Center sent a letter of request to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to dismiss Mileta Novakovic, a member of Gendarmerie special unit, from service in the Ministry of Interior due to his responsibility for human rights abuses in 1994 and 2006.
The Serbian Supreme Court verified on 18 May 2006 the verdict handed down by the Belgrade District Court, by which four members of the “Osvetnici” (Avengers) armed group within the Republic of Srpska Army were convicted to imprisonment because of the kidnapping and murder of 16 Bosniaks from the village of Sjeverin, which took place in the place called Mioče, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in October 1992. Milan Lukić, Dragutin Dragičević, Oliver Krsmanović, and Đorđe Šević were convicted for this crime.
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The Humanitarian Law Center addressed a letter to the War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević on 3 February 2006 demanding that he opens investigation on the former Republic of Srpska Army General, Svetozar Andrić and former Republic of Srpska Deputy Minister of Interior Toma Kovač because there is reasonable suspicion that they are criminally liable for the grave breeches of Geneva Conventions committed during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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On 23 January 2006 the Humanitarian Law Center demanded that the Republic of Serbia Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica remove the War Crimes Investigation Department Chief from the Ministry of Interior (MUP). The HLC also filed criminal charges with the War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office against Borisavljević because there is reasonable doubt that in the period from 1 January 1999 to 20 June 1999 he abetted the commission of war crimes against civilian population as per Article 142 Paragraph 1 of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Criminal Code (CC FRY) in conjunction with Article 24 of the CC FRY.
The confession of the defendant, Ivan Atanasijević, at the trial of 16 persons accused of war crime against prisoners of war committed at the Ovčara farm (Croatia) on 20 November 1991, before the War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade, is the first confession of guilt before a domestic court.