Origin of Video Footage of Execution of Six Bosniaks from Srebrenica

In view of the news published on the B92 web page on 12 December 2007, which stated that Jovan Mirilo “provided the Humanitarian Law Center non-governmental organization with the video tape” showing the execution of six Bosniaks from Srebrenica committed in July 1995, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) reiterates that it obtained the tape from Dušan Kosanović, a member of the Scorpions unit, in November 2004. Dušan Kosanović testified about this before the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber on 11 April 2006.


Bulletin – Experience of Peru: Interview with Francisco Soberon

Between 12 and 15 December 2007, Francisco Soberon was a guest of HLC in Belgrade and participated in the Seminar: Reparations – legal and moral obligations of the state, which HLC organized on 14 December in cooperation with the International Center for Transitional Justice with the financial support of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.


Carla’s List

On 13 December 2007, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD) organized in Belgrade, Serbia, a screening of the Marcel Schüpbach film: Carla’s List, followed by a panel discussion in which Serbian human rights activists and journalists discussed the impact of the ICTY, and specifically the role of Carla Del Ponte as one-time Chief Prosecutor, on Serbia’s attempts, or lack thereof, to deal with the past. On the same day, Carla’s list was also screened in Sarajevo by Association Pravo Ljudski in cooperation with the Research and Documentation Center, in Zagreb by Documenta, and in The Hague by Stichting Movies That Matter.

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Serbia must hold the Yugoslav People’s Army accountable for crimes committed at Ovčara

On 20 November 2007, it will be sixteen years since the war crime at the Ovčara farm near Vukovar was committed. Not a single person has been convicted for the commission of this crime and Serbian state institutions have not yet revealed the entire truth about the former Yugoslav Peoples Army’s (YNA) role in this crime.