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.
On May 28, 2007 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a compensation lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia at the First Municipal Court in Belgrade on behalf of Murat Pepić from Tutin who was beaten by three members of the Department of Internal Affairs (OUP) Tutin in January 2002.
On February 24th, 2007, HLC – in cooperation with the Outreach programme of the ICTY and with the financial support of the Council of Europe – organized the event Čelebići 1992: Beyond Reasonable Doubt in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a compensation lawsuit on April 26, 2007 on behalf of Emina Muratović, Zahida Rovčanin, Rašida Kaltak, Mevla Berbo, Ramiza Arbak, Džamila Čalaković, and Husein Husović for compensation of non-pecuniary damages against the Republic of Serbia because of the responsibility of the state for the murder of their father Mušan Hasović, committed by members of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) in the Kukurovići village on February 18, 1993.
The judgment passed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which acquitted Serbia from responsibility of genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), has caused concern among victims in the states formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, since what is now general knowledge of the involvement of Serbia in the Srebrenica genocide was not confirmed in court.
“This, in fact, was the strength of the Scorpions, all the family ties. […] We all had family ties and were old friends from school.” – says Dusko Kosanovic, aka Owl, former memeber of the Scorpions.
The Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber verdict rendered on 10 April 2007 against indicted members of the Scorpions Unit for the execution of
six Bosniak civilians in Trnovo, BiH, committed in July 1995 is not based on the law and facts determined during the trial.
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Yesterday four Serbian human rights organizations sent a letter to all 27 heads of government in the European Union to express deep concern at recent signals of retreat from insistence on Serbia’s concrete cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a pre-condition to resuming talks on a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA). The European Commission suspended those talks in May 2006 over Serbia’s failure to cooperate with the ICTY, specifically citing the failure to arrest former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladic.