The Serbian and Croatian Prosecutors’ Offices should launch an initiative to address the issue of Serbs indicted or convicted in absentia for war crimes in Croatia, said today the HLC executive director Nataša Kandic....

MOST Radio Free Europe: Consequences of the Ganić case on relations in the region 19.03.2010. New salt on old wounds Omer Karabeg: Our interlocutors are Natasa Kandic, director of the Humanitarian Law Center from Belgrade, and Zdravko Grebo, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo. Serbia has the intention to try what it considers war crimes against Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was first demonstrated by the trial in Belgrade of Elijah Jurisic, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Tuzla Column case, and now by the request submitted to the UK to extradite Ejup Ganic whom the Prosecution of Serbia alleges was responsible for killing soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army at the beginning of the war in Sarajevo. How do you see this move of the judiciary in Serbia?...

The past decade has seen an unprecedented surge of international interest in transitional justice - the systematic addressing of mass crimes of the past. Most of the scholarly discussion about transitional justice has focused on two major pragmatic and normative debates. The first question is whether societies coming out of violent pasts should set up any transitional justice initiatives at all or should instead focus on the future, leaving the past to rest. The second debate is about institutional design, where the choice for transitional democracies is limited to sequencing - what should come first, war crimes trials of individual perpetrators or truth commissions. In other words, the debate has been about what is more urgent for a traumatized postwar society: justice or truth and healing......

An interview with HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic, said today that the initiators of the initiative for the formation of a Regional Commission to establish the facts about war crimes and other serious violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM) believe that such a commission is the only way to overcome the past and that without dealing with the past there can be no the democratic future for the region....

Transitions Online: Acts of War - Judge Not … A new initiative aims to seek the truth about the Yugoslav wars, not necessarily reconcile old enemies. by Tihomir Loza 14 January 2010 In legal terms, international and local efforts over the past 15 years to prosecute those responsible for war crimes committed in the conflicts accompanying the breakup of Yugoslavia have been a success overall, if one requiring some elaborate qualification. Dozens of high-ranking officials have faced largely credible trials, with just two really important suspects still evading justice. Yet when it comes to the impact of war crimes trials on political and social lives in the Western Balkan societies even generous watchers see only mixed results....

Balkan Insight: Call for Cross-border War Crimes ‘Truth Commission’ 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 Yugoslavia is planning to strongly pressure the succession countries into forming regional commissions to establish the facts on war crimes and other severe violations of human rights....

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....

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...

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor submitted a request to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Chamber of Belgrade District Court to conduct an investigation against six persons, suspected of having committed war crimes against Roma civilians in the villages of Skočići, Malešić, Petkovci and Drinjaca, in the municipality of Zvornik in 1992....

The Republic of Serbia War Crimes Prosecutor supports the initiative to form a commission mandated to investigate facts about war crimes (RECOM). “As the only institutional representative of victims, the prosecutor speaks in favour of audio and video recording in the court because it is convinced that the purpose of justice is that it is seen to be done”, carried the Prosecutor’s press release delivered to the Beta news agency....

Beta, 22.09.2009. – Trials for war crimes before courts in Serbia are conducted professionally but there are few indictments, and these are mainly against low-ranking perpetrators, concluded a report prepared by a regional war crime trial monitoring team. The report published by the Center for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights Osijek, the Humanitarian Law Center and the Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo states that in recent indictments in Serbia the role of Serbian state institutions and regular police and armed forces in war crimes is either minimized or completely absent....

22.09.2009 – The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court acquitted two former members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, who were charged with torture and violating the Bytyqi brothers’ right to fair trial....

The Kosovo Liberation Army maintained a network of prisons in their bases in Albania and Kosovo during and after the conflict of 1999, eyewitnesses allege. Only now are the details of what occurred there emerging....

Families denied war crimes reparations 6 April 2009 | 15:00 | Source: B92, Beta BELGRADE -- A Serbian court has rejected the demands of 25 families of kidnapped victims from Sjeverin for damages, according to the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP). In 1992, during the war in neighboring Bosnia, soldiers of the Republic of Srpska military kidnapped, and later tortured and killed 16 Muslim civilians from Sjeverin, Serbia. For this crime, Milan Lukić, Oliver Krsmanović and Dragutin Dragičević were sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Đorđe Šević was given 15 years by the Belgrade District Court. In May 2006, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict. On behalf of the families of the victims, the FHP filed charges against the Republic of Srpska in June 2007, for damages to be paid to the families, but the First District Court threw out the case....

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Izvor: IWPR Organisers hope event will encourage creation of regional commission to establish truth about war crimes in region. Bosnian war crimes victims told a Belgrade conference this month about their suffering as part of a plan to raise public awareness about atrocities committed during the 1990s Balkans conflicts....

Izvor: The New York Times Long one of the most-wanted fugitives in the world, Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader blamed for inciting his followers to join him in a brutal ethnic war, was en route to The Hague early Wednesday, according to the Serbian war crimes prosecutor....

Koha Ditore Fondi për të Drejtën Humanitare prezanton raportin për gjendjen e pakicave në Kosovë...

Qendra për Informim e Kosovës - Kosova Information Center Beograd, 30 maj Komunitetet pakicë që jetojnë në Kosovë kanë deklaruar se ndihen më të sigurtë dhe lëvizin lirshëm pas pavarësisë së Kosovës. Ky konstatim ka dalë nga hulumtimi i fundit i Fondit për të Drejtën Humanitare me seli në Beograd. Sipas hulumtimit serbët dhe të tjerët janë të shqetësuar për mundësitë e vogla të punësimit të tyre. Sipas rezultateve të hulumtimit problemi i integrimit të komunitetit serb qëndron te vetë serbët, të cilët po përballen me presione të vazhdueshme të Beogradit. Pas 17 shkurtit pjesëtarët e kësaj pakice janë nxitur të reagojnë në mënyra të ndryshme, duke braktisur edhe vendet e punës dhe për të mos qenë pjesë e institucioneve në Kosovë....

RTV 21 Komunitetet pakicë që jetojnë në Kosovë ndihen më të sigurt dhe lëvizin më lirshëm, pas pavarësisë së Kosovës. Ky konstatim ka dalë nga hulumtimi i fundit i Fondit për të Drejtën Humanitare, me seli në Beograd....