On 8 May 2008, HLC filed a criminal complaint against Božidar Delić, a retired major-general, and 10 other persons, mostly members of the 549th motorized brigade of the Yugoslav Army and a number of members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, for their role in the murder of several dozens of Kosovo Albanians (42 victims have been identified so far) on March 25, 1999 in the village of Trnje/Ternje in the Suva Reka municipality of Kosovo....

On March 21, 2008, HLC convened a meeting of human rights NGOs, journalists, historians, the Serbian Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, a representative of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia war crime investigation unit, judges, the ICTY Liaison Officer to Serbia to discuss the future of the Hague Tribunal archive in the context of war crime trials, building historical memory, establishing the facts about the recent past and the need for the documentation of the Hague Tribunal archive to be accessible to experts and the general public....

Members of the Advisory Committee on the Archives of the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ACA) visited Belgrade at the end of December 2007 to discuss the future of the Hague Tribunal archive with representatives of the authorities and NGOs....

Between May 1980 and November 2000, Peru experienced what would be described by the Truth and Reconciliation as the most violent period in its history as a republic. In this period a three-way internal armed conflict was waged by the communist Party of Peru, also known as the Shining path, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), and the state intelligence services and military. These twenty years of Peru’s history were marked by systematic violations of human rights and international law. The violence ended when the dictatorship of former-President Fujimori collapsed amid allegations of corruption in 2000....

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor raised an indictment on August 23, 2006 against Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović, members of Special Police Units of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, for the murder of three Bytyqi brothers, all US citizens, after 8 July 1999 when they were taken from the jail in Prokuplje by unidentified members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior. The bodies of the Bytyqi brothers were found in 2001, in a mass grave in Petrovo Selo, near Kladovo, eastern Serbia. The trial began on November 13, 2006....

HLC: In light of your recent visit to Belgrade, 25-26 October 2007, how would you assess the authorities' level of cooperation with your Office? CDP: From my recent meeting with the Belgrade authorities, I sense that a will to fully cooperate with my Office exists. I know that there are members of Government and senior officials who are working very hard to track down these war criminals. I also know that there are those who could do much more....

Since 1 September 2006, the Humanitarian Law Center has initiated 11 compensation lawsuits on behalf of Bosniaks from the Sandzak because of violations of their fundamental human rights in the period 1992-1995 and in 2001. These lawsuits have been filed by HLC with the relevant courts within the context of the project: Promoting Minority Rights in the Future through Reparations for Human Rights Abuses in the Past, which is funded by the European Commission and the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.1 Implementation of the project began on 1 March 2006 and will continue until 28 February 2009....

Within the context of its campaign to bring the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) record to the western Balkans, on 18 June HLC sent a letter to all permanent members of the UN Security Council and to UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, Nicholas Michel, requesting that the Security Council and Office of Legal Affairs support the initiative of the HLC to become the repository of a satellite ICTY record....

There was not an empty seat in the auditorium when HLC together with the Youth Initiative for Human Rights held a national consultation of youth on regional mechanisms of truth-seeking and truth-telling in the western Balkans on Sunday July 8, 2007 in Belgrade’s Vos center. More than 30 leaders of youth organizations from all over Serbia, including the Vojovodina, the Sandžak and southern Serbia, participated in the debate on the contribution of youth to processes of truth-seeking and truth-telling in the post-Yugoslav states of the Western Balkans....

On Wednesday 30 May 2007, the Belgrade War Crime Chamber brought a decision to conduct a criminal investigation after questioning 12 persons suspected of war crimes in Lovas, eastern Croatia, in 1991. All twelve suspects were taken into custody. Significantly, four of the 12 suspects being held are former members of the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA). They are Miodrag Dimitrijević, Darko Perić, Radovan Vlajković and Radisav Josipović. To date, the War Crimes Prosecutor in Serbia has desisted from investigating former members of the JNA in relation to war crimes committed during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s....