(srpski) Suđenja za ratne zločine: Na redu komandni kadar
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Families of the victims of Terrnje village, Municipality of Suva Reka, informed the Head of Department for War Crimes in Belgrade, Judge Mirjana Ilic, who is also the presiding judge in the case against officers Rajko Kozlina and Pavle Gavrilovic for the murder of 27 women, children, and the elderly on 25th March 1999, that they will not take part in further proceedings due to her decision to exclude the representatives of injured parties (lawyers from Kosovo) on the grounds that they are not registered with the Serbian Chamber of Advocates.
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The fifth issue of the bulletin through ACCESSION towards JUSTICE published!
This issue triggers discussion on the significance of creating the Regional Commission for Establishing the Facts about War Crimes and Other Gross Violations of Human Rights Committed on the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia (RECOM). It also reminds us about one rather forgotten issue – the rights of the citizens who were forcibly mobilized after fleeing to Serbia from the war zones in Croatia and B&H.
And, at the end, there are columns in the Bulletin offering an overview of events and war crimes trials in the period following June 15th, 2014.
The bulletin wishes to underline how important it is for a country aspiring to join the community of European nations, but also for the EU itself, to initiate the process of dealing with the past. History has shown that unresolved issues of the past are always present, hampering the functioning of a political system, be it a state or a community of states. Therefore, both the Republic of Serbia and the EU Member States have an obligation to secure a stable political and legal system for their citizens, a system governed by the rule of law, which will guarantee the protection of and respects for human rights of its citizens.
Please send any comments on the Bulletin to the following email address towardsJUSTICE@hlc-rdc.org and join the discussion on Twitter /#towardsJUSTICE.
Download your copy of the bulletin here.
The Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) considers that the results, to date, of the investigations of the Special Task Force, led by Prosecutor Clint Williamson, convincingly show that, after the war ended in Kosovo, there began a prosecution campaign against Serbs, Roma and other ethnic minorities, as well as KLA opponents, which is known of in Kosovo, but not talked about for safety reasons.
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The Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) was set-up in 2011 to conduct an independent criminal investigation into the very serious allegations contained in the Council of Europe (CoE) report of January 2011 by Senator Dick Marty entitled: “Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo”. The mandate of the SITF is to investigate and, if warranted, prosecute individuals for crimes alleged in the report.
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The War Crimes Department of the Court of Appeals in Belgrade (Court of Appeals Department) has quashed the judgment rendered by the Higher Court in the Belgrade War Crimes Department (Higher Court Department), by which seven members of “Simo’s Chetnicks”, a paramilitary unit, were found guilty of committing war crime in the village of Skočić (in the Municipality of Zvornik, B&H), and sent the case back for a new trial. The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) holds that the judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals contains a number of controversial findings, and that the rationale based on racist positions are particularly unacceptable and utterly inappropriate for a court, as well as being highly offensive to the victims.
