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This report is the result of systematic monitoring of initiatives in the field of transitional justice in the countries which came into existence following the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. The monitoring has been carried out by human rights organisations, the Humanitarian Law Center (Belgrade) and Documenta (Zagreb). The disintegration of the Yugoslav federation was marked by three high-intensity armed conflicts – in Croatia (1991-95), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-95) and Kosovo (1998-99), where at least 130,000 people lost their lives, millions were forced to flee their homes, while hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed.... >>
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.... >>
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predecessor, and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.
Hannah Arendt, ''Eichmann in Jerusalem''
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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....
FHP Index No.: 17/04/2008;
Trials for ethnically motivated crimes and war crimes in Kosovo - Report for 2007
 
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) helps societies in the territory of the former Yugoslavia to establish the rule of law and to come to terms with the legacy of massive human rights violations in order to prevent their recurrence, establish the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators and ensure that justice is done....
FHP Index No.: ISSN 1820-7650 01/02/2008;
Humanitarian Law Center - Annual report 2007
 
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....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 978-86-7932-016-2 30/01/2008;
Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries - Report for 2006
 
The report deals discusses processes of transitional justice, including official and unofficial initiatives aiming at establishing the truth about war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, trials for war crimes and reparation-related issues, in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In addition to the aforementioned initiatives, the report analyses the wider political context, considering factors that obstruct the application of instruments of transitional justice as well as the public opinion which is hostile to war crimes trials and human rights organizations....
FHP Index No.: 05/12/2006;
Report on Transitional Justice in Serbia, Montenegro and in Kosovo, 1999-2005
 
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....
FHP Index No.: IISBN 86-82599-69-4 05/10/2006;
Roundtable on the Trial of Slobodan Milošević
 
This report is based on more than 60 interviews with the members of minority ethnic communities in relation to the following issues: freedom of movement, return of displaced persons, access to public services, education, upbringing, and employment, use of mother tongue, and house reconstruction; as well as on interviews with victims of ethnically motivated incidents, and information available on individuals punished for the ethnic violence that erupted on 17 March 2004....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 86-82599-68-6 05/06/2006;
Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo in 2005.
 
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....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 86-82599-61-9 05/08/2005;
Ominous Freedom
 
This publication contains the judgment in the trial of Radoslav Krstić before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia for crimes committed in Srebrenica, as well as the joint indictment against Vidoje Blagojević, Dragan Obrenović, Dragan Jokić and Momir Nikolić, and judgments in the trials of Momir Nikolić and Dragan Obrenović....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 86-82599-60-0 05/06/2005;
The Hague Tribunal VIII: Judgments
 
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....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 86-82599-65-1 05/03/2005;
The Hague among us
 
This publication is the transcript from the Conference on Command Responsibility, organized by the Humanitarian Law Center from Belgrade and the Outreach Programme of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. Conference participants that spoke include: Nataša Kandić, Ivo Josipović, and Olga Kavran at the opening and closing of the Conference; Ilyas Banketas, Director of the International Law Department of the Westminster University Faculty of Law; Aleksandar Ignjatović, former Head of the Legal Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Andrew Cayley, Higher Representative of the ICTY Prosecution; Reinhold Gallmetzer, Legal Counsellor of the ICTY Court Chamber; Saša Obradović, Legal Counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Sead Spahović, Public Legal Adviser of the Republic of Serbia; Rade Terzić, Lawyer from Belgrade. The publication also comprises a translation of the transcript in English....
FHP Index No.: ISBN 86-82599-50-3 16/08/2004;
Command Responsibility in International and Domestic Law
 
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