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HLC Demands Investigation on Svetozar Andrić and Tom Kovač Be Initiated

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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HLC Demands that Slobodan Borisavljević be Removed from Ministry of Interior and Filed Criminal Charges Against Him

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.


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The defendant confessed his participation in the crime at Ovčara

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.


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DECLARATION ON THE STATE OF SERBIA’S OBLIGATION TO UNDERTAKE ALL MEASURES AIMED AT PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE VICTIMS OF WAR CRIMES, PARTICULARLY THE RIGHTS OF THE VICTIMS OF THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

The draft of a Declaration on Srebrenica put forth to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia by the following non-governmental organizations: Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Civic Initiatives, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Women in Black, Belgrade Circle, Humanitarian Law Center and Youth Initiative for Human Rights. On the strength of Article 72, paras 1.1, 1.2, 1.6, 2, and Article 73, para 1.2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, and Articles 130 and 156 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.

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Jedanaest godina od otmice u Štrpcima

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