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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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Case: Marko Simović
Date:12/08/2008 12:23

Amanded indictment...
Case: Florim Ejupi - Niš express
Date:06/06/2008 17:22

Amended indictment Verdict...
Case: Sadat Fejza
Date:26/06/2007 17:28

Amanded indictment Verdict...
Kosovo Serb Acquitted Of War Crimes Charges
Date:05/09/2002 09:01

The District Court in Prizren on 4 September 2002 acquitted for lack of evidence Kosovo Serb Sasa Grkovic of several counts of war crimes against the civilian population. The decision of the panel, made up of two international and one local judge, was unanimous....
Two Kosovo Serbs Denied a Fair Trial
Date:15/06/2001 12:31

In a unanimous decision on 14 June this year, the international panel of the District Court in Prizren found two Kosovo Serbs, Cedomir Jovanovic and Andjelko Kolasinac, guilty of war crimes against the civilian population in Orahovac during the NATO intervention. The three-judge panel, with Dr Ingo Risch of Germany presiding, sentenced Jovanovic to 20 and Kolasinac to five years in prison....
Genocide trial resumes in Kosovo
Date:06/12/2000 08:27

The trial of Kosovo Serbs Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac on the charge of genocide resumes on 7 December. The panel of the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has ex officio summoned five witnesses, assessing that the testimonies of the 23 witnesses for the prosecution heard so far have not made it possible to establish whether Vuckovic and Bisevac committed the crime of genocide. Judge Mahmut Halimi, who presides the panel, said the court needed testimonies of the new witnesses in order to determine the facts of the case....
Trial of six Serbs accused of genocide to open in Kosovo
Date:04/12/2000 12:32

The trial of six Kosovo Serbs on the charge of genocide opens before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 5 December. Igor Simic, one of the defendants, has been in custody for the past 15 months. Co-defendants Dragan Jovanovic, Srdjan Aleksic, Vlastimir Aleksic, Branislav Popovic and Tomislav Vuckovic in the meantime escaped from the District Prison in Kosovska Mitrovica and will be tried in absentia. Prosecutor Muharem Ramadani has charged the six Serbs with “deliberately killing Albanians, forcing them in an organized and systematic manner to move out, plundering and destroying their property, all with the aim of completely or partly destroying the Albanian community in Kosovska Mitrovica.”...
Pavicevic found guilty of murdering three Kosovo Albanians, Gligorovski acquitted
Date:16/11/2000 15:36

The District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 16 November found Nenad Pavicevic guilty of murdering three members of the Hajrizi family and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Co-defendant Lazar Gligorovski was acquitted of the charge of murder because of lack of evidence. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, gave Gligorovski a two-year suspended sentence for illegal possession of firearms. Gligorovski was arrested a year ago while Pavicevic was tried in absentia....
Trial of Kosovo serbs for genocide resumed
Date:13/11/2000 08:18

The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, on the charge of genocide resumed before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 13 November. The Humanitarian Law Center is observing all trials for ethnically motivated crimes in Kosovo. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, is to establish whether the defendants committed the criminal offense charged by Prosecutor Jusuf Mejzini: deliberate and planned torching of villages and killing of Albanian civilians with the aim of partly or completely destroying the ethnic Albanian community. Bisevac is being tried in absentia....
Two kosovo Serbs on trial for genocide
Date:30/10/2000 07:13

The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, for genocide resumes before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, 31 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia. According to the indictment, Vuckovic and Bisevac and other unidentified persons forced the ethnic Albanian inhabitants of Suvi Do and Gusgevac villages to leave their homes by shooting off firearms. They are also charged with looting and torching Albanian houses and the murder of Hazire Sahiti, an elderly woman, whose house they allegedly set afire “even though they were aware she was inside.” In the indictment broght on 11 November last year, the prosecutor proposed the calling of 25 witnesses. The five witnesses heard so far accused Vuckovic and Bisevac of crimes not cited in the indictment, including torture and killing of civilians.Counsel for the defense - Miodrag Brkljac, Miro Delevic, Zoran Janicijevic and Ljubomir Pantovic – pointed to the contradictory testimonies of the witnesses, some of which conflicted with the statements they made during the investigation....
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