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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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Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Date:05/02/2007 18:13

“The Humanitarian Law Center has been of enormous help to my office since 1994. But our face-to-face meeting impressed and inspired me, especially her [Natasa Kandic’s] courage, openness and genuine concern for the victims of war crimes… It is in no small part thanks to her efforts that witnesses are coming forward to ensure that truth be told, forcing the region to face up to its history.” Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia writing for Time magazine Europe, 60 years of Heroes 2006...
Mirko Kovacic, a member of the Vukovar Mothers Association of the Families of the Missing and Killed
Date:05/02/2006 18:17

“I would like to praise the sacrifice of Natasa Kandic and her colleagues who enabled us to be present at all sessions of this trial that went on for a year and a half. Our pain was at least partially eased since the truth, albeit incomplete, was presented openly before victims’ family members. Our contributions to the trial were sometimes also used as evidence. The Humanitarian Law Center has encouraged us to search till the end for criminals, the truth about the crimes and, above all, the truth about the missing.” Mirko Kovacic, a member of the Vukovar Mothers Association of the Families of the Missing and Killed, who monitored the “Ovcara” trial before the Special War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade, May 2006....
Letter from ICTY Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte
Date:09/09/2005 18:16

“I would like to express my support and appreciation for your efforts to create an Archive of Trial Proceedings before the ICTY in B/C/S languages. We do hope that the Humanitarian Law Center will be able to continue with this essential and very much needed project until the archive is complete.” Letter from ICTY Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, 9 September 2005...
Washington Post
Date:25/06/2005 18:15

“The broadcasts on June 2 ripped away the veil of secrecy and denial of Serbian military operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-95 war, particularly the massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys in and around Srebrenica. No longer was it possible to label atrocity tales as Bosnian Muslim propaganda amplified by inventive foreign correspondents, as many Serbs had done for a decade.” The Washington Post, 25 June 2005...
New York Times
Date:29/08/1999 18:17

“Even the opposition to Slobodan Milosevic has shown little interest in acknowledging [Kosovo] atrocities. Natasa Kandic is a lonely exception.” New York Times,29 August 1999...