HLC Executive Director presents RECOM Initiative to Banja Luka students

Banjaluka, BiH, March 27, 2010

On March 27th 2010, Nataša Kandić, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) addressed students at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka, BiH, upon an invitation by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Center for Student Democracy, and the Faculty of Philosophy. In a lecture prepared for this occasion, Ms. Kandić said that dealing with our past and our own crimes is a prerequisite for the democratization of society and in that context she talked about war crimes trials before national jurisdictions and the RECOM process.


Presentation of the record of killed and missing in Podujevo/Podujevë

On March 9th 2010 HLC Kosovo presented the results of the record of killed and missing in the area of the municipality of Podujevo/Podujevë between January 1st 1998 and June 14th 1999. The presentation, held at the Podujevo/Podujevë municipal assembly, was attended by the media and over 130 family members of the killed and missing. Families gave HLC Kosovo large number of relevant documents and photographs of the victims.


Seminar o reparacijama u Novom Pazaru

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Panel discussion – Dealing with the Past: the experience of Chile and Peru

On behalf of the Coalition for RECOM, the Humanitarian Law Center will hold a panel discussion on:

Dealing with the Past: the experience of Chile and Peru

on

Thursday 18th March between 1400 and 1600

at the Center for Cultural Decontamination

(Birčaninova 21, 11000 Belgrade).


The Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia shows more understanding for officers responsible for war crimes than for the victims of these crimes

In its legally binding ruling of March 11th 2010, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia upheld the acquittal of Rahim Ademi and commuted Mirko Norac’s prison sentence for crimes committed against Serbian civilians and prisoners of war in the Medak pocket (Medački Džep). This caused new anguish for the families of the victims and convinced them that the Court has more empathy for those who commit war crimes than for their victims. From a human rights perspective, it is very difficult to accept the fact that the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia demonstrated more concern for the mental health of the accused Mirko Norac than for the suffering of the victims’ family members. In that regard, the following statement contained in the disposition of the Supreme Court’s ruling that “a high level of exposure to a war environment in circumstances of conducting a legitimate defensive war against the aggressor, lead to damage to his mental health which affected his ability to show good judgment” has political implications which should be avoided by any court.


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.


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