The Court of Appeal in Belgrade has quashed the interim judgment of the Higher Court in Belgrade, which found the Yugoslav Army (YA) responsible for the war crime which occurred in the village of Kukurovići on 18th February 1993, and remanded the case for retrial. The Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) notes that this decision shows that Serbian courts are continuing with their practice of shielding the state institutions from responsibility for past human rights violations.
Professors from several universities in the US, whose students attend the School for International Training (SIT) of the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications, visited the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014.
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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, acting upon the appeal filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), has found that the practice of anonymization of judgments is in violation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law on Personal Data Protection. In his Decision, the Commissioner issued an order to the Higher Court in Belgrade to deliver to the HLC the judgment without illegal anonymization, under the threat of the imposition of a fine.
In Serbia (without Kosovo) and Montenegro, 275 people lost their lives as a result of the NATO bombing: 180 civilians, 90 members of the Yugoslav Army (YA) and five were members of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior (MUP). Except three Chinese nationals, all were citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
In Kosovo, 484 people were killed: 267 civilians (209 Albanian and 58 non-Albanian), 171 members of the YA, 20 members of the Serbian MUP and 26 members of the KLA (19 of whom died in the NATO bombing of the Dubrava prison, near Istok).
Here you can see list of names of people who lost their lives in NATO bombing.
Monday, 24th March, marks fifteen years since the Serbian army and police waged its systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and violence directed against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population during the NATO intervention against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) calls on the state institutions of the Republic of Serbia to secure justice for the victims of the crimes in Kosovo and their family members, by prosecuting all those responsible, regardless of their rank at the time of the commission of crimes or within the current hierarchies of power, and by providing just satisfaction to the victims for the suffering they endured.
With the goal to allow the public to learn about the facts and evidence concerning the crimes committed during the Kosovo war, as well as the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the HLC presents the Zone of (non)responsibility – an interactive web presentation of the crimes committed in the areas of responsibility of Serbian armed forces in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, for which no one has been held responsible. In addition to the descriptions of the crimes, which are based on witness statements, the website presents excerpts of authentic military documents related to the crimes, as well as the police and military hierarchy of units in whose areas of responsibility these crimes were committed.
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