Some 23 years after the outbreak of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the bodies of 13,000 victims remain unaccounted for. On the occasion of...
Families of the victims of Terrnje village, Municipality of Suva Reka, informed the Head of Department for War Crimes in Belgrade, Judge Mirjana Ilic, who...
The Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) considers that the results, to date, of the investigations of the Special Task Force, led by Prosecutor Clint...
The Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) was set-up in 2011 to conduct an independent criminal investigation into the very serious allegations contained in the Council...
The European Union (EU) must do everything it can to ensure Serbia addresses the culture of impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,...
The Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) expresses its deep disappointment in the institutions of Kosovo, as well as civil society and parts of the...
Almost everything is known about the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) camps for Croats set up in the territory of Serbia after the fall of Vukovar...
A new project aims to create a comprehensive database of all the prison camps and other wartime detention facilities across the country over the next...
In war crimes investigations, it is unusual to get a name. Victims and witnesses usually cannot distinguish between various forces – police, special police,...
Spain was ready to let bygones be bygones. After the demise in 1975 of the Francisco Franco dictatorship, the nation’s leading political parties negotiated the...
Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation...
Five children – Saranda, Jehona, Fatos, Lirie and Genz – survived an execution by firing squad in Podujevo on 28 March 1999, in which 14...
… and prompted the uprecendented ousting of Danish Judge Frederik Harhoff from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. His personal letter and subsequent...
The Hague Tribunal’s president Theodor Meron said the UN had failed by not setting up a reparations fund but defended his court’s record after a...
A Serbian rights group has filed charges against several former Yugoslav Army troops over the killings of 21 Kosovo Albanians during the conflict in 1999.
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