Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Çeku ‘s Support to War Crimes Perpetrator is Contrary to Respect for the Law and Independent Judiciary

The HLC office in Kosovo expressed its utmost concern due to the Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Çeku’s statements and behaviour surrounding conviction (first instance verdict) of General Selim Krasniqi for war crime committed against civilian population. HLC Kosovo believes that this behaviour is contrary to the principles of the rule of law and independent judiciary, which are the goals of independent Kosovo.


HLC on War Crimes Trials in Serbia

Press Release composed in view of the US Ambassador for the War Crimes Issues, John Clint Williamson’s visit


Podujevo 1999 – Beyond Reasonable Doubt

The book in front of you portrays the court truth about the responsibility of Saša Cvjetan, charged with the war crime against civilian population committed on 28 March 1999 in Podujevo, Kosovo. The documents, chronologically sorted, show how a trial, initiated on a factually incomplete and selective indictment, grew into a serious process against denial, lies, and impunity.

The great merit in this process belongs to Judge Biljana Sinanović who was led in this proces exclusively by the law, as well as to the surviving children, whose words in the courtroom we listened to with the feeling of shame not being able to look them in the eye.

Humanitarian Law Center Requests Prime Minister to Dismiss Mileta Novakovic

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.