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....

This report deals with facing the consequences of war events and crimes committed during the period 1991-99. The report is the product of an initiative of the Humanitarian Law Center (Belgrade), in cooperation with the Research Documentary Center (Sarajevo) and Documenta (Zagreb). It refers to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, – hereinafter: “post-Yugoslav countries”. During the course of 2006 in almost all post-Yugoslav countries trials for war crimes were well under way, while in other areas of transitional justice there were hardly any substantial steps forward compared to the previous period. The authorities took no concrete steps, which would lead to the establishment of a fact finding body, at state and regional level. Very little was done to make those individuals in public positions, or seeking public appointment, face inquiries into their actions during the time of armed conflict. Finally, fulfilling the right to reparation – either as the outcome of laws or by means of court proceedings – is still very difficult to achieve for many victims whose rights were violated in the 1990s....

This is a transcript of the Roundtable on the Trial of Slobodan Milošević, organized by the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade on 18 December 2005. Panellists include: Mirko Klarin, Sonja Biserko, Nataša Kandić, Svetlana Slapšak and Lazar Stojanović. Moderator: Biljana Kovačević-Vučo....

Ominous Freedom examines cases of organized deportation of Bosnian refugees by the Montenegrin police, military police and paramilitary during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many of those who were returned to the Bosnian Serbs were killed, while several went missing. Sporadic cases of killing refugees were also noted. The deportations were accompanied by a powerful media campaign orchestrated by the Montenegrin state. Annexes include reprints of official documents relating to these cases....

The book presents a collection of texts first published in the column “The Hague among us” in the Belgrade daily Danas, in the period: 9 April 2004 - 9 June 2005. In a climate of animosity towards The Hague Tribunal created by state officials, the church and the media, the texts are an appeal to bring to justice all perpetrators of war crimes, including senior officers, committed in the former Yugoslavia....