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In the period from September until December 2008, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) conducted a research on the implementation of the Law on the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Communities and Their Members in the Republic of Kosovo, with special focus on the creation of the Consultative Council for Communities within the Kosovo President’s Cabinet. This law was passed on 13 March 2008 and entered into force on 15 June 2008, while the decree of the President of Kosovo, on establishment of the Consultative Council, was made on 15 September 2008.... >>
HLC-Kosovo is the only nongovernmental organization monitoring trials of war crimes and ethnically motivated criminal offences in Kosovo. In 2007, HLC-Kosovo monitored 117 main hearings in 21 cases before municipal and district courts, as well as four cases before the Supreme Court of Kosovo. The persons examined in these [monitored] cases included 119 witnesses (two of whom were protected witnesses) and five ballistic experts and neuropsychiatrists. In all cases the indictments were brought and represented by international prosecutors. All the chamber presidents are international judges, with local judges serving as trial chamber members.... >>
In the period following the toppling of Slobodan Milošević, the transitional government supported domestic war crimes trials, but it soon became clear that serious impediments existed. Police was not willing to share its data on war crimes perpetrators with prosecutors, primarily because most of them belonged to the police.... >>
Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its
predecessor, and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.
Hannah Arendt, ''Eichmann in Jerusalem''
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Victim/Witness Counselling and Legal Representation: a Model of Support - Project implementation report
Date:09/11/2007 15:45

In the period following the toppling of Slobodan Milošević, the transitional government supported domestic war crimes trials, but it soon became clear that serious impediments existed. Police was not willing to share its data on war crimes perpetrators with prosecutors, primarily because most of them belonged to the police....
War Crimes Trial In Vukovar
Date:08/01/2005 16:11

On 13 July 2004, the County Court in Vukovar, Croatia, found six Croatian Serbs guilty of war crimes against the civilian population under Article 120 (1) of the Croatian Basic Criminal Code (BCC). [1] Jovan Ćurčić was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Miloš Držaić to 11, Mladen Maksimović to eight, and Dušan Mišić, Dragan (father's name Čedo) Savić, and Jovica Vučenović to seven years in prison each....
Forced Mobilization of Serb Refugees from Croatia
Date:20/11/2004 14:48

During early August 1995 when Croatia undertook the military-police operation Storm, approximately 200,000 Serbs left their homes and fled to Serbia. On the basis of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Protocols to this Convention, and the Republic of Serbia Refugee Law, the moment they stepped on the territory of Serbia, people from Croatia obtained the status of refugees, which guaranteed protection from forced return to the country from which they had fled....
Command Responsibility: The Contemporary Law
Date:23/02/2004 17:22

The doctrine of “command responsibility” was established by the Hague Conventions IV (1907) and X (1907) and applied for the first time by the German Supreme Court in Leipzig after World War I, on the Trial of Emil Muller. Miller was sentenced by the Court for failing to prevent the commission of crimes and to punish the perpetrators thereof....
Otpor - Analysis
Date:24/03/2001 17:50

OTPOR Movement was founded in 1998 and later it evolved into a mass youth movement against Slobodan Milošević’s regime. During 1999 and 2000, members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior unlawfully detained for interrogation more than 2,000 members of OTPOR, during which they were often tortured. HLC interviewed more than 300 members of OTPOR, victims of unlawful deprivation of freedom. Statements given by 176 members of OTPOR were published in the HLC Police Track down of Otpor book (edition from 2000)....