The final seminar of the Regional Transitional Justice School organized by the Humanitarian Law Center, the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, and the Lawyer Association from Sarajevo was held in the period March 23rd-24th, 2013.
A Yugoslav Army brigade’s military assaults on eight Kosovo villages that killed 885 people in 1999 have now been fully documented, but Serbia may never prosecute its commander.
On Wednesday, 20 March 2013, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) presented the File on the 549th Motorised Brigade of the Yugoslav Army – a unit which was under the command of Božidar Delić during the Kosovo conflicts.
The Dossier describes operations of this Yugoslav Army unit during the war in Kosovo as well as the crimes committed in its area of responsibility in which more than 2,000 Albanian civilians were killed. There has not been a single trial of persons responsible for these crimes before courts in Serbia.
A group of students and professors from France, Germany, Croatia, and Serbia visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Thursday, March 14th, 2013 as part of the study visit organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Serbia and the Local Democracy Agency from Croatia.
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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a criminal complaint against a person on March 14th, 2013 with the Republic of Serbia Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor because of a war crime against a civilian population committed in Mala Kruša/Krusha e Vogel (the Municipality of Prizren) on March 28th, 1999.
The subject of this report are relevant events in the transitional justice arena in the successor countries of the former Yugoslavia: trials for war crimes committed in the period 1991-1999, institutional reform referring to lustration, approach that institutions and public have to convicts, media reporting about war crimes, truth commissions, work of civil society organizations on documenting facts about war crimes, resolution of the issue of missing persons, return of refugees, reparations, memorials.