FHP-OV-003 FUND: Court documents from trials of members of Vukovar Territorial Defence and the Leva Supoderica paramilitary unit for war crimes against prisoners of war

PERIOD: 1997 – 2006

PRIMARY SOURCES: District Court in Sombor (Serbia), Military Court in Belgrade (Serbia), Serbian Ministry of Interior Agency for Fight Against Organized Crime, District Court in Novi Sad (Serbia), County Court in Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber (Republic of Serbia)

VOLUME AND MEDIUM:  8 archival boxes

CONTENT:  The Fund contains documents from trials of members of Vukovar Territorial Defence, which was part of the then Yugoslav People’s Army, who killed a total of 192 persons at Ovčara Farm near Vukovar in Croatia, in violation of international humanitarian law and in violation of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, thus committing a war crime against prisoners of war.

The Fund contains court documents (indictment, transcripts of trials, records from examinations of the accused and witnesses, official notes, etc.), reports by court experts, the UN Expert Commission’s Final Report, a list of identified mortal remains exhumed at Ovčara, media reports, photos, correspondence with HLC, etc.

ORGANIZATION SYSTEM:   Chronologically, by date

Additions to  the Fund are expected

LANGUAGE:  Serbian, Croatian

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Box no. 1

January 9th, 1997 – January 18th, 2006

 

  • Court documents of the District Court in Sombor, Republic of Serbia
  • Court documents of the Military Court in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
  • Documents of the Serbian Ministry of Interior Agency for Fight Against Organized Crime
  • Court documents of the District Court in Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
  • Court documents of the Zagreb County Court, Republic of Croatia
  • Court documents of the Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber, Republic of Serbia

 

Box no. 2

1991 – 2005

 

  • Report of the Government Commission on Humanitarian Issues and Missing Persons, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  • Court experts’ report
  • United Nations Expert Commission’s Final Report
  • Mass gravesite – Ovčara
  • List of identified mortal remain exhumed at Ovčara
  • Media reports, photos, etc.

 

 

Box no. 3

December 4th, 2003 – October 27th, 2004

  • District Court in Belgrade, War Crimes Chamber – indictment filed on December 4th, 2003
  • Transcripts of the main trial from March 9th, 2004 until October 27th, 2004.

 

 

Box no. 4

October 28th, 2004 – December 17th, 2004

 

  • District Court in Belgrade,  War Crimes Chamber – transcripts of the main trial from October 28th, 2004 until December 17th, 2004.

 

Box no. 5

January 24th, 2005 – April 22nd, 2005.

 

  • District Court in Belgrade,  War Crimes Chamber – transcripts from the main trial from January 24th, 2005 until April 22nd, 2005.

 

Box no. 6

May 23rd, 2005 – July 8th, 2005

 

  • District Court in Belgrade,  War Crimes Chamber – transcripts of the main trial from May 23rd, 2005 until July 8th, 2005

 

Box no. 7

September 12th, 2005 – October 18th, 2006

 

  • District Court in Belgrade,  War Crimes Chamber – transcripts from the main trial on September 12th, 2005, the verdict from December 12th, 2005, and the Judgment of the Supreme Court on October 18th, 2006.

 

Box no. 8

  • Confidential – closed to public

FHP-SS-002 FUND: Court documents, from trials of Serbian citizens for war crimes

PERIOD: 1993 – 2006

PRIMARY SOURCES: County Court in Varaždin, Military Court in Zagreb, Municipal Court in Split, County Courts in Zadar, Karlovci, Osijek, Požega, Split and Šibenik (Croatia), District Court in Murska Subota (Slovenia), Cantonal Court in Sarajevo, District Military Court in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), District Court in Banja Luka, Higher Court in Zenica, Municipal Court in Belgrade, Military Court in Novi Sad, Military Court in Niš (Serbia), District Court in Peć, Gnjilane, Priština, Mitrovica (Kosovo), District Court in Novi Pazar, Higher Court in Podgorica, Primary Court in Cetinje (Montenegro).

VOLUME AND MEDIUM:  9 archival boxes

CONTENT:  The Fund contains documents from trials of members of Serb and Croat national communities for war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, which were monitored by researchers and attorneys from the HLC. The trials were conducted on the territory of Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Fund covers the period from 1991 to the present. The Fund contains court documents (indictments, verdicts, appeals, decisions, records of examinations of the accused, transcripts of trials, records from witness examinations, official notes, trial reports, memoranda, motions for termination of detention, petitions, certificates, powers of attorney), and newspaper articles and accompanying documents.

ORGANIZATION SYSTEM: boxes are organized geographically in accordance with the location of the court (alphabetically), and each case is organized chronologically (by date)

Additions to the Fund are expected  

LANGUAGES:  Serbian, Croatian, Albanian

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Box no. 1

  • Trials of Croats and Serbs for war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Trials conducted on the territory of Croatia before the District Courts in Varaždin, Vukovar, Zagreb, Zadar, Karlovci, Osijek, Požega, Split and Šibenik. A total of 31 cases.

Box no. 2

  • Trials of Croats and Serbs for war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Trials conducted on the territory of Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo,  before the County Court in Vukovar (Croatia), the Municipal Court in Split (Croatia), the County Court in Zagreb (Croatia), the Supreme Court of Croatia, the District Court in Belgrade (Serbia), the District Court in Gnjilane (Kosovo) and the District Court in Priština (Kosovo). A total of 5 cases.

Box no. 3

  • Trial of Dragan Nikolić from Gnjilane, charged with the crime of killing, together with a group of co-perpetrators,  a person of Albanian nationality. The trial was conducted before the District Court in Gnjilane (Kosovo), the District Court in Priština (Kosovo) and the Supreme Court of Kosovo. A total of 1 case (79 documents).

Box no. 4

  • Trials of Serbs for war crimes committed on the territory of Kosovo conducted before the District Court in Mitrovica (Kosovo). A total of 4 cases.

Box no. 5

  • Trials of Serbs for war crimes committed on the territory of Kosovo conducted before the District Court in Mitrovica, District Court in Peć, District Court in Prizren, and District Court in Priština (Kosovo). A total of 10 cases.

Box no. 6

  • Trials of Serbs for war crimes and other criminal offences conducted before the District Court in Belgrade, the Military Court in Belgrade, and the Supreme Military Court (Serbia). A total of 10 cases.

Box no. 7

  • Miscellaneous documents (with reference to espionage, disclosure of a military secret, murder, enforced disappearances of soldiers, inappropriate use of weapons issued to soldiers, army desertion, preventing an official  discharge  duties), relating to the Municipal Court in Kragujevac, District Court in Kraljevo, District Court in Leskovac, Military Court in Niš, and Military Court in Novi Sad. A total of 13 cases.

Box no. 8

  • Miscellaneous documents (with reference to terrorism, unauthorized possession of weapons, criminal offence of murder, unauthorized crossing of the border, war crimes trial – the  “Yellow Wasps” Case against the accused, Duško and Vojin Vučković). District Court in Smederevo, District Court in Užice, District Court in Požarevac, District Court in Prokuplje, District Court in Sremska Mitrovica, District Court in Šabac. A total of 6 cases.

Box no. 9

  • Trials of Serbs for war crimes and other criminal offences conducted before the District Court in Murska Subota (Slovenia), District Court in Novi Pazar (Serbia), Primary Court in Nikšić (Montenegro), Primary Court in Cetinje (Montenegro), District Court in Banja Luka, Higher Court in Zenica, Cantonal Court in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), District Military Court in Tuzla, Higher Court in Podgorica (Montenegro). A total of 14 cases.

Box no. 10

  • Separate trial of Saša Radak, who (as a member of a volunteer unit within the then Yugoslav Peoples’ Army) in violation of international humanitarian law killed two hundred persons at the Ovčara Farm, thus committing a war crime against prisoners of war. The trial was conducted before the District Court in Belgrade War Crimes Chamber (Serbia). A total of 1 case (9 documents).

Box no. 11

  • The trial of Anđelko Kolašinac et al. for a war crime against the civilian population, conducted before the District Court in Prizren (Kosovo). A total of 1 case (34 documents).

FHP-SS-001 FUND: Court documents from trial of Albanians during the Slobodan Milošević era

PERIOD: 1991 – 2006

PRIMARY SOURCES: District Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Chamber, District Courts in Peć, Priština, Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Prokuplje, Požarevac, Vranje, Zaječar, Kraljevo, Leskovac, Negotin, Kuršumlija, Kladovo and Novi Pazar, Municipal Council of Municipality of Glogovac, Republic of Serbia Ministry of Justice – Belgrade

SCOPE AND MEDIUM:  18 archival boxes

CONTENTS:  The fund contains documents from trials of members of  the Albanian national group during the era of Slobodan Milošević, monitored by researchers and attorneys of the HLC. The trials were conducted on the territory of Serbia and Kosovo. The Fund covers the period from 1991 to the present. The Fund contains court documents (indictments, verdicts, appeals, decisions, records from  examinations of the accused, transcripts of trials, records from examinations of witnesses, official notes, trial reports, memoranda, motions for termination of detention, petitions, certificates, powers of attorney), newspaper articles, photographs, letters written by prisoners, lists of prisoners of war and accompanying documents.

ORGANIZATION SYSTEM:  boxes are organized geographically in accordance with the location of the court (alphabetically), and each case is organized chronologically (by date)

Additions to the Fund are expected

LANGUAGE:  Serbian, Albanian

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Box no. 1

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before District Court in Belgrade, District Court in Vranje, District Court in Glogovac, District Court in  Gnjilane, District Court in Zaječar, District Court in Kraljevo and District Court in Mitrovica. A total of 38 cases.

Box no. 2

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Leskovac. A total of 43 cases.

Box no. 3

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Niš. A total of 20 cases.

Box no. 4

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Novi Pazar. A total of 1 case.

Box no. 5

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 12 cases.

Box no. 6

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 67 cases.

Box no. 7

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Požarevac. A total of 13 cases.

Box no. 8

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Preševo and the District Court in Prizren. A total of 45 cases.

Box no. 9

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Priština. A total of 24 cases.

Box no. 10

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Priština and the District Court in Prokuplje. A total of 11 cases.

Box no. 11

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Montenegro, before the District Court in Bijelo Polje, the District Court in Belgrade, the District Court in Kuršumlija, the District Court in Prokuplje, the District Court in Negotin and the District Court in Kladovo. A total of 3 cases.

Box no. 12

  • Powers of attorney, petitions, HLC attorneys’ requests to visit convicts of Albanian nationality in prisons in Serbia, lists of Albanian convicts and the plan of visits of attorneys to district prisons in Belgrade, Smederevo, Niš, Zaječar, Zrenjanin and Ćuprija. A total of 134 cases.

We Should Know the Facts: 69 Croatian Civilians Killed in Lovas in October 1991

Members of the Dušan Silni volunteer unit from Serbia and Serbs from the village of Lovas, with the artilery support of the Second Guard Motorized Brigade of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA), attacked the undefended village of Lovas on October 10, 1991, killing 21 Croatian civilians: Mirko Grgić, Mato Adamović, Danijel Badanjak, Cecilija Badanjak, Antun Jovanović, Anka Jovanović, Katarina Pavličević, Juraja Poljak, Josip Kraljević, Alojzije Polić, Mato Keser, Josip Poljak, Ivan Ostrun, Drago Pejić, Mijo Božić, Tomo Sabljak, Vido Krizmanić, Stipe Mađarević,  Pave Đaković, Stipe Pejić, and Živan Antolović.


We Should Know the Facts: Sjeverin, October 22, 1992

Eighteen years ago, on October 22, 1992, Muslims from Sjeverin were on their way to Priboj, taking care of their daily business, riding on a bus from Rudo to Priboj across the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, just like any other day.


Presentations of the list of the dead, killed and missing

Between April 1st 2009 and May 31st 2010 HLC Kosovo and HLC organized 29 public presentations of current results of the list of the dead, killed and missing Albanians in municipalities of Suharekë/Suva Reka, Lipjan/Lipljane, Gjakovë/Đakovica, Gllogoc/Glogovac, Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, Obiliq/Obilić, Skenderaj/Srbica, Shtime/Štimlje, Istog/Istok, Klinë/Klina, Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, Pejë/Peć, Deqan/Dečani, Ferizaj/Uroševac, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Gračanica/Gracanicë, Prishtinë/Pristina, Malishevë/Mališevo, Kaqanik/Kacanik, Podujevë/Podujevo, Prizren, Vushtrri/Vučitrne and the villages in which mass crimes were committed: Velika Kruša/Krushë e Madhe [the municipality of Rrahovec/Orahovac], Mejë/Meja[the municipality of Gjakovë/ Đakovica] and Izbicë/Izbica [the municipality of Skenderaj/Srbica].

  1. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Suva Reka/Suharekkë, 18.04.2009.
  2. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Orahovac /Rrahovec, 13.06.2009.
  3. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Lipljan/Lipjan, 11.07.2009.
  4. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Glogovac/Gloggoc 23.07.2009.
  5. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Meja/Mejë, 21.08.2009.
  6. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Kosovo Polje/ Fushë Kosovë, 17.09.2009.
  7. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Obilić/Obiliq, 18.09.2009.
  8. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Izbica/Izbicë, 26.09.2009.
  9. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Srbica/Skenderaj, 28.09.2009.
  10. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Belgrade
  11. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Prizren, 28.10.2009.
  12. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Peć/Pejë, 25.11.2009.
  13. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Vučitrn/Vushtrri, 18.12.2009.
  14. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë, 19.01.2010.
  15. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Istok/Istog, 21.01.2010.
  16. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Gračanica/Graçanicë, 29.01.2010.
  17. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Gnjilane/Gjilan, Vitin/Viti, Kamenica/Kamenicë i Novo Brdo/Novobërde, 09.02.2010.
  18. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Mališevo/Malishevë, 16.02.2010.
  19. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Niš, 20.02.2010.
  20. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Uroševac/Ferizaj, 23.02.2010.
  21. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Klina/Klinë, 28.02.2010.
  22. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Podujevo/Podujevë, 16.03.2010.
  23. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Štimlje/Shtime, 17.03.2010.
  24. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Dečani/Deçan, 30.03.2010.
  25. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Podgorica, 01.04.2010.
  26. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Kačanik/Kaqanik, 05.04.2010.
  27. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Priština/Prishtinë, 27.04.2010.
  28. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Prokuplje, 27.05.2010.
  29. Presentation of the list of killed, dead and missing in Dubrava/Dubrave, 29.05.2010.

Outreach Presentations Resume for Kosovo High School Students

The Tribunal’s Outreach Programme today launched a fresh round of its popular high school presentation programmes in Kosovo for the 2010 – 2011 school year.

The programme, backed by the Kosovo Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, includes a series of presentations at 15 Gymnasium High Schools during the autumn and winter terms of the academic year as part of the Civic Education syllabus.


Appropriate sentences for the accused Musliu and Tahiri charged with kidnapping and extortion in Kosovo

On its decision of October 5, 2010 rendered in a retrial, the District Court in Gjilan/Gnjilan pronounced unified sentences for the accused Shefket Musliu and Besim Tahiri charged with the commission of the criminal act of kidnapping under Article 64 paragraphs 1, 2, and 4 of the CCS and an attempted criminal act of extortion under Article 180 of the CCS. The accused Musliu was sentenced to a unified prison sentence of 10 years and six (6) months in prison while Besim Tahiri was sentenced to six (6) years and nine (9) months in prison.


Court of appeal in Belgrade denied Munir Šabotić, a victim of police torture, right to just compensation

BELGRADE, November 30th, 2011.

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade has rendered a judgment denying the compensation lawsuit filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on behalf of Munir Šabotić, a victim of torture, which he was subjected to by members of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in Novi Pazar in August and September 1994. The Court of Appeal accepted the appeal filed by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Serbia and modified the judgment, which originally had granted Munir Šabotić compensation to the amount of 300,000 RSD and had ordered the Republic of Serbia to pay for litigation expenses to the amount of 20,000 RSD. The HLC believes that the Court of Appeal arbitrarily and unjustly denied the right to compensation for the violation of human rights, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, the laws, and various international conventions. For this reason, the HLC will file a complaint on behalf of Munir Šabotić with the Constitutional Court of Serbia.


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