HLC Opinion: ICTY Appeals Chamber Grants Šljivančanin’s Request for Review of Judgment on the Basis of Biased Witness’ Testimony

The Humanitarian Law Center, who represented the families of those persons executed at Ovčara before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court (hereinafter the War Crimes Chamber), believes that the ICTY Appeals Chamber gave undo trust  to a witness in the case.


HLC Opinion: ICTY Appeals Chamber Grants Šljivančanin’s Request for Review of Judgment on the Basis of Biased Witness’ Testimony

The Humanitarian Law Center, who represented the families of those persons executed at Ovčara before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court (hereinafter the War Crimes Chamber), believes that the ICTY Appeals Chamber gave undo trust  to a witness in the case.


We Have To Know: Paulin Dvor, December 11, 1991

Members of the 130th Battalion of the Croatian Army (CA) killed 18 Serb civilians in the village of Paulin Dvor, in the vicinity of Osijek, on December 11, 2010. The names of these civilians are: Milan Labus, Spasoje Milović, Bojo Grubišić, Božidar Sudžuković, Bosiljka Katić, Boško Jelić, Milan Katić, Dmitar Katić, Draginja Katić, Vukašin Medić, Darinka Vujnović, Anđa Jelić, Milica Milović, Petar Katić, Jovan Gavrić, Milena Rodić, Milka Lapčević, and Mariju Sudžuković.


Judgment for War Crimes in Zvornik Municipality Failed to Bring Justice for Victims or the Accused

After five years of trial, the Belgrade Higher Court War Crimes Department trial chamber, presided over by Judge Tatjana Vuković, rendered a judgment on November 22, 2010 which upset human rights defenders and deeply affected and offended families of victims.


2,000 PAGES OF SECRET SREBRENICA CABLES

INTELWIRE has exclusively published 2,000 pages of previously classified State Department documents on the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, considered a turning point in the Bosnian civil war.


The Supreme Court of Cassation Upholds the Decision in the Dejan Petrović Compensation Lawsuit

BELGRADE – The Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade denied the request of the Republic of Serbia to revise a decision handed down by the District Court in Belgrade confirming the first instance decision of the First Municipal Court, which orders the Republic of Serbia to pay one million RSD in non-pecuniary damages each to Radmila and Dragomir Petrović from Belgrade for their emotional suffering caused by the death of their son, Dejan Petrović, who died on the premises of the Internal Affairs Department (OUP) of the Vračar municipality.


The Supreme Court of Kosovo Sentences Former KLA Member Idriz Gashi to 14 Years in Prison for the Commitment of a War Crime

On November 25, 2010, the mixed Trial Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, presided by Justice Martti Harsia, upheld the judgment of the District Court of Peć/Pejë handed down on November 19, 2009 sentencing the accused Idriz Gashi to 14 years in prison for the war crime committed against a civilian.


Suva Reka Victims’ Family Members: We Can No Longer Trust the Courts in Serbia

Family members of victims of the crimes committed against women and children in Suva Reka, Kosovo, who monitored the war crimes trial held before the War Crimes Trial Chamber in Belgrade, agreed to attend the trial believing the assessment of the Humanitarian Law Center that the trial would be fair and professional to a certain extent.


Ten Years for the Execution of a Wounded Prisoner

On November 17, 2010 the War Crimes Trial Chamber of the High Court in Belgrade sentenced Darko Radivoj to 10 years in prison for war crimes committed against wounded prisoners of war in Tenja, Croatia.