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).
BELGRADE – The Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade denied the request of the Republic of Serbia to revise a decision handed down by the District Court in Belgrade confirming the first instance decision of the First Municipal Court, which orders the Republic of Serbia to pay one million RSD in non-pecuniary damages each to Radmila and Dragomir Petrović from Belgrade for their emotional suffering caused by the death of their son, Dejan Petrović, who died on the premises of the Internal Affairs Department (OUP) of the Vračar municipality.
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The author assesses the projected ambitious goals of the recent regional non-governmental truth-seeking initiative for ex Yugoslavia, arguing that its innovative regional approach is both its strength and a significant weakness that might undermine the goal of establishing a coherent historical narrative.
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.
February 3rd 2010
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.
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An interview with HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic
HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic, said today that the initiators of the initiative for the formation of a Regional Commission to establish the facts about war crimes and other serious violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM) believe that such a commission is the only way to overcome the past and that without dealing with the past there can be no the democratic future for the region. Kandic in interview with Tanjug said that about 500 NGOs, associations of victims, veterans, women and youth groups launched the initiative and are working intensively on drafting the statute and RECOM model, whose formation will made by decision of the successor states to the former Yugoslavia.
n January 19, 2010, a mixed panel of the Supreme Court of Kosovë/Kosovo, presided by EULEX-appointed judge Emilio Gatti, upheld the first-instance judgment of the District Court in Prizren sentencing the accused Gani Hazeraj to six (6) months jail sentence suspended for one year for participation in the March 2004 violence in Prizren. The sentence will not be executed if the accused does not commit another criminal offense during the twelve-month period starting on the day the sentence became legally binding.
A new initiative aims to seek the truth about the Yugoslav wars, not necessarily reconcile old enemies.
by Tihomir Loza