Fifth Forum on Transitional Justice in Budva

The Fifth Regional Forum on Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries will begin on May 29th in Bečići, near Budva, and will end on Sunday May 31st. The forum is organized by the Centre for Civic Education and Human Rights Action from Montenegro on behalf of a Coalition of more than 200 non-governmental organizations and individuals from the region, who will use the forum to continue the debate on establishing a Regional Commission to investigate and disclose the facts about war crimes and other serious human rights violations (RECOM) on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.


HLC Annual Report 2008

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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) supports post-Yugoslav societies  in the promotion of the rule of law and acceptance of the legacy of mass human rights violations, and therefore in establishing the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators, serving justice, and preventing recurrence.

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Compensation Lawsuit for Victims from Podujevo Dismissed

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) lodged an appeal against the judgment of the First Municipal Court in Belgrade rendered on April 28th 2009 that dismissed the HLC’s lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia which HLC had filed on behalf of 14 Albanian victims of a war crime committed by members of the Scorpions – a reserve unit of the Serbian Ministry of Interior.


Trials for war crimes and ethnically and politically motivated crimes in post-Yugoslav countries

In 2008, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) monitored all trials held in Serbia for war crimes, murders and other criminal offences committed in the context of armed conflicts, all trials conducted in Kosovo for war crimes and ethnically or politically motivated criminal offences and selected war crimes trials in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of regional cooperation on monitoring war crimes trials before national courts.


Conviction of Gjelosh Krasniqi

Gjelosh Krasniqi, a member of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was sentenced on 29 April 2009 to seven years of imprisonment for a war crime against civilian population committed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1999. The court proceedings conducted before the Peć/Pejë District Court Trial Chamber presided by Judge Gjanfranco Gallo was fair, but the sentence was inadequately mild in comparison with the gravity of the crime committed.


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