An interview with HLC Executive Director, Natasa Kandic
By: Pedja Obradovic in Belgrade
A broad regional coalition of civil society associations from the countries of the former Yugoslaviais planning to pressure the succession countries into forming a regional commission to establish the facts on war crimes and other severe violations of human rights.
On December 4th 2009, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, which had found the accused Boro Trbojevic guilty of war crimes against the civilian population and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the war crimes prosecutor and the defence of the accused Trbojevic. In its reasoning the Supreme Court stated that the first-instance verdict does not contain the essential violation of the provisions of criminal procedure or criminal law that the second instance court considers ex officio.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic was one of the conditions of the international community for visa liberalization. Yet Serbian citizens will in a few days be able to travel without a visa in Europe, and Ratko Mladic remains at large. In an interview with Deutsche Welle radio, Natasa Kandic, executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center, said:
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Conference “European integration and transitional justice: perspectives and strategies for the establishment of restorative justice in the Western Balkans” was held on Tuesday December 1st in Brussels, organized by the Center for the Study of Global Governance (London School of Economic) and the Humanitarian Law Center.
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A decade after the Kosovan conflict, activists are still trying to establish the number of victims. Analysts believe that this could be an important argument for a pro-independence ruling by a UN court.
Analysis by an AFP reporter in Pristina
Published: 2:25PM GMT 30 Nov 2009
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More than 140 family members of victims of the conflict in Kosovo in 1999 attended the presentation of data on the killed and missing in the municipality of Peć/Pejë organized by the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) on November 25th 2009.
November 25, 2009
US Institute of Peace Washington DC
Dear friends: I am deeply honored to offer an enthusiastic recommendation in support of the proposal presented by the Humanitarian Law Center, of Belgrade, Serbia, to conduct a one-year project called “Mapping Public Memorials in the post-Yugoslav States.”