Press Releases
Date:15/03/2010 13:04
On behalf of the Coalition for RECOM, the Humanitarian Law Center
will hold a panel discussion on:
Dealing with the Past: the experience of Chile and Peru
on
Thursday 18th March between 1400 and 1600
at the Center for Cultural Decontamination
(Birčaninova 21, 11000 Belgrade).
Guest speakers are:
Felix Reategui, Chief of the Report unit of the Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission
and Cristian Correa, Secretary of the Commission for Political Imprisonment and Torture, Chile - the Valech Commission.
English – Serbian simultaneous interpretation will be provided....
Date:19/02/2010 17:12
On February 16th 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center - Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) presented data on the killed and missing victims in the area of the municipality of Malishevë/Mališevo in the period 1998 and 1999. The Presentation, which was held in the hall of the Malishevë/Malishevë Municipal Assembly, was attended by over 90 family members of the killed and missing....
Date:11/02/2010 11:51
On February 9th 2010, in the Gnjilane/Gjilan Municipal Assembly, the Humanitarian Law Center - Kosovo (HLC – Kosovo) presented the interim results of the record of killed and missing Albanians in the municipalities of Gnjilane/Gjilan, Viti/Viti, Kamenica/Kamenica and Novo Brdo/Novobërde in the period from January 1st 1998 until June 14th 2000. Seventy family members of the killed and missing, media representatives from Serbia and Kosovo and representatives of KFOR attended the presentation....
Date:09/02/2010 15:14
The people in Serbia took rather placidly the news about President Tadić’s initiative to ask the Serbian Parliament to adopt a resolution on the recognition of Srebrenica victims. Human rights organizations accepted it, among other things, as a result of many months of their constant pressure and protest directed at state institutions to declare July 11th Victims of Srebrenica Memorial Day. The Serbian Radical Party and the Democratic Party of Serbia, the ultra national right wing parties, spoke flagrantly against the resolution on the victims of Srebrenica, interpreting it as an act of humiliation of their own nation and as recognition of a crime [genocide] that did not happen......
Date:02/02/2010 16:55
On 29 January 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and the Humanitarian Law Center - Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) held a public presentation of the interim results of the record of killed and missing Serbs, Roma, Montenegrins, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in Kosovo in the period from January 1998 until December 2000. The presentation took place in the in the Gračanica/Graçanicë Cultural Center and was attended by around 100 family members of the victims, representatives of associations of victims, representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), and the media......
Date:22/01/2010 11:03
More than 80 family members of the killed and missing attended a presentation of the interim results of the record of the killed, dead and missing in the municipality of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë on January 19th 2010 which was organized by the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) in the Rexhep Mitrovica Cultural Center....
Date:21/12/2009 10:47
We support the foundation of a State Commission tasked with finding and marking all secret graves created after 1944, and we demand that the government of the Republic of Serbia establish another commission tasked with disclosing the remaining mass graves in Serbia, created during the time of the armed conflicts waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and also tasked with investigating allegations that bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims were incinerated in the Mačkatica factory, in the Obilić thermal-electric power plant, in Niš and Smederevo during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ). In addition to this, we remind the public that the Republic of Serbia has a moral obligation to secure financing for the exhumation of mass graves in Košare and in Belaćevac, thus demonstrating its compassion for and solidarity with the families of missing Serbs who have been searching for their loved ones for 10 years....
Date:07/12/2009 16:24
On December 4th 2009, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed the verdict of the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, which had found the accused Boro Trbojevic guilty of war crimes against the civilian population and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the war crimes prosecutor and the defence of the accused Trbojevic. In its reasoning the Supreme Court stated that the first-instance verdict does not contain the essential violation of the provisions of criminal procedure or criminal law that the second instance court considers ex officio....
Date:02/12/2009 15:21
Conference "European integration and transitional justice: perspectives and strategies for the establishment of restorative justice in the Western Balkans" was held on Tuesday December 1st in Brussels, organized by the Center for the Study of Global Governance (London School of Economic) and the Humanitarian Law Center....