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.


HLC Demands Allegations on Bombing of RTS Building be Investigated

The Humanitarian Law Center addressed a letter to the Republic of Serbia Minister of Interior, Dragan Joić, on 19 January 2006 demanding Aleksandar Petkanić’s allegations be investigated. He said that the highest state authorities and some other persons, including Marko Milošević knew that the RTS building was going to be bombed.


Fate of the Missing Albanians in Kosovo

The report was composed on the basis of the statements given by witnesses and family members of the missing persons, data and observations of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Monitors who regularly followed the exhumation and autopsies of the bodies found in the mass graves in Serbia, as well as data on bodies that were identified and handed over, received from the families or Belgrade War Crimes Chamber Investigative Judge who signs the Record on Identified Mortal Remains Hand Over.


List of Items Discovered in Mass Graves in Serbia

1. Batajnica 01 [BA 01]    

1.1 Exhumation and forensic examination of the bodies: 12 – 27 June, 2001.

1.2 Forensic team of the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Belgrade: 
Professor Dr Dušan Dunjić, Dr Tanja Atanasijević, Dr Vesna Đokić, Dr Đorđe Alempijević, Professor Slobodan Savić, anthropologists Profesor Dr Marija Đurić and her assistant Dr Danijela Đonić, and archaeologist Andrej Starović, Research Station Petnica.

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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.