State Responsible for Police Torture in Prijepolje in 1993
A First Instance Court in Belgrade has delivered a judgment requiring the Republic of Serbia to pay the sum of RSD360,000 (Serbian Dinars) to Sead Rovčanin, a Bosniak from the village of Gračanica, in the municipality of Prijepolje. The court found the state responsible for the torture inflicted on Mr. Rovčanin in October 1993 by members of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Interior (MOI). The Humanitarian Law Center believes that this judgment, should it become final, will bring only partial satisfaction to Mr. Rovčanin as he has waited 19 years for recognition of the injustice that he suffered and because the perpetrators have have yet to be punished and are still working as police officers.
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, the Coalition for RECOM calls on the governments of post-Yugoslav countries to break the silence about secret graves, because that silence is the major contributor to the public culture of silence about what happened in the past.
Belgrade – Setting up a regional commission for the establishment of facts of war crimes and other serious human rights violations (RECOM) is a strong reason for a second meeting, with Tomislav Nikolic, Natasa Kandic, President of the Humanitarian Law Center, told Serbian daily newspaper Danas, when asked whether she would request a meeting with the President of Serbia, in her capacity as an advocate for the Initiative for RECOM.