Serbia must renounce Milosevic’s system of evil

In an interview with Dani, the Director of the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Center talks about the NGO’s 20-year history and explains why Zagreb and Sarajevo have forgiven Boris Tadic for something that they would never forgive Tomislav Nikolic.


Serbia is a Nicely Packaged Bomb


Knowledge of what happened denied, victims concealed, ignorance of   victims’ names – these are the factors that constantly encourage new crimes. Hence my constant preoccupation with putting a name to the victims, because a name can serve in the Balkans as an instrument to prevent denial, lies, manipulation of numbers. * The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor has been tasked with the protection of  the former criminal state by protecting its military generals. Today, this institution has no strategy to prosecute  war crimes. Instead, it protects the politicians who in certain situations arrest  citizens of other nationalities for political reasons. * When will the question of the responsibility of the police, the army, the media, the banking system which had funded the procurement of weapons and war volunteers,  be on the agenda? Never – because crime has been totally revitalized here, and the prevailing opinion is that these persons and institutions were only defending the Serbian government and the Serbian people. No one even mentions that these state institutions  acted illegally to the detriment of  society.


Patrick Ball gave a lecture to students of the Transitional Justice School

Patrick Ball from the Benetech organization Human Rights Data Analysis Group held a lecture to the students of the Transitional Justice School on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012. Patrick Ball spent 20 years creating databases and implementing quantative analyses of the gathered data on human rights violations for the purposes of truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, and international missions of the United Nations in El Salvador, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Peru, East Timor, Kosovo, and other countries.


The Coalition for Access to Justice greatly concerned over statements of current and former Presidents of Serbia regarding Srebrenica

The Coalition for Access to Justice has expressed great concern over the statements of Serbia’s current President Tomislav Nikolic, and its former President Boris Tadic, which deny the facts established by courts about the genocide in Srebrenica. The Coalition would like to direct the current and former Presidents’ attention to Serbia’s obligation as a member of the UN, of the Council of Europe and of the OSCE, to respect court verdicts, and to request that in their public appearances and statements they cease bringing  the Republic of Serbia into disrepute and doing harm to the process of reconciliation in the region.


Students from Preševo and Bujanovac Visited the HLC

Students from Preševo and Bujanovac, who were staying in Belgrade as part of the „Public Advocacy for Civil Society“ project, visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Monday, October 29th, 2012. The project is implemented by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in cooperation with the USAID Institute for Sustainable Communities. The youth from Preševo and Bujanovac had an opportunity during this visit to learn more about the work of civil society organizations, institutions, cultural centres and media.


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