Amnesty International urged European Union officials to insist that Croatian authorities prosecute all war crimes committed during the 1990s. The EU was also urged to consider AI’s concerns when deciding whether to close the chapter on the judiciary and fundamental rights in Croatia’s accession talks, Program Director Nicola Duckworth said in Brussels on Tuesday.
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UN official accuses Gotovina of war crimes
January 16th, 2011 |
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Former UN peacekeeper Stefan Van Zanten has accused Hague indictee Croatian General Ante Gotovina of war crimes.
Van Zanten accused Gotovina of commanding some areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina where Serb civilians were tortured and killed in 1992, reported Croatian Nova TV, noting that Gotovina’s defense team had called the allegations slanderous.
“Croatia should take stand on war crimes suspectâ€
January 15th, 2011 |
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Serbia’s Justice Minister Snežana Malović said late Friday that she expected Croatia to take a stand on the case of Tihomir Purda.
Purda is, along with two others, suspected of war crimes against Serbs in Borovo Naselje near Vukovar, eastern Croatia.
Justice minister on extradition of war crimes suspect
January 13th, 2011 |
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If Croatia does not request extradition of Tihomir Purda in the next ten days Serbia will, Serbian Justice Minister Snežana Malović told B92.
She said that documentation on Purda, who is suspected of war crimes against the Serbs in Vukovar, would be submitted to the Croatian judiciary today or tomorrow.
5 members of KLA war crimes group freed
January 11th, 2011 |
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The War Crimes Trial Chamber of the Belgrade High Court revoked the detention of five members of the so-called Gnjilane Group of the KLA. Spokeperson of the court Dušica Ristić confirmed this for Tanjug on Monday.
Tadić, Kosor discuss war crimes case
January 11th, 2011 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić spoke with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor about the case of Tihomir Purda, the Serbian president’s cabinet has announced. Tadić underlined during the discussion that “this and similar cases needed to be considered by the appropriate ministries and prosecutions in both Serbia and Croatia, respecting the legal systems of both countries.”
EULEX indicts war crimes suspects
January 8th, 2011 |
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EULEX Spokeswoman Irina Gudeljević says that the EULEX prosecutor has confirmed the indictment against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Sabit Geci and Riza Alija are charged with war crimes committed in 1999.
Patriarch: Foreign officials knew about crimes
January 5th, 2011 |
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Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej today accused the international community of knowing that trade in human organs was taking part in Kosovo. Irinej said in his message, ahead of Orthodox Christmas, that the crime that saw body parts of missing Kosovo Serbs sold for money was taking place with the knowledge of representatives of the international community.
Prosecutor on war crimes, political pressure
January 4th, 2011 |
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Serbia’a war crimes prosecutor believes that “there is no policy that would stand behind a man who took part in something like human organ trafficking”.
Vladimir VukÄević spoke for B92 on Tuesday, and said that he previously thought “politics” could not influence criminal proceedings, but that he has been convinced to believe otherwise.
Man arrested for war crimes against Serbs
December 31st, 2010 |
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Swedish authorities have arrested Bosnian citizen Zemir KovaÄević who is suspected of war crimes against Serb civilians in 1992 in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Swedish prosecution did not release any details of the indictment.
War crimes suspect arrested in Montenegro
December 29th, 2010 |
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War Crimes Prosecution has announced that Milojko Nikolić, suspected of participating in a war crime in Kosovo in 1999, was arrested in Montenegro.
It is suspected that Nikolić as a member of the “Jackals†unit took part in the killing of 44 Albanian civilians in the village of Ćuška near Peć.
War crimes prosecutor criticized
December 23rd, 2010 |
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Opposition MPs today in parliament criticized War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir VukÄević for his handling of the Kosovo organs case. Serb Progressive Party (SNS) MPs demanded on Thursday VukÄević’s resignation after his comments regarding the report on KLA’s trafficking of organs taken from kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo and Albania, submitted by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty.
War crimes trial for paramilitaries
December 20th, 2010 |
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The trial for nine former members of a paramilitary unit accused for war crimes against civilians in the village of Ćuška near Peć in Kosovo starts today.
The trial will be held before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade High Court.
“KLA committed crimesâ€
December 19th, 2010 |
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Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić says that Dick Marty’s report is important because it says for the first time that the KLA committed horrible crimes.
“This is information that is upsetting every normal human being in Europe,†he told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik.
“KLA committed crimesâ€
December 19th, 2010 |
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Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić says that Dick Marty’s report is important because it says for the first time that the KLA committed horrible crimes.
“This is information that is upsetting every normal human being in Europe,†he told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik.
“Many countries knew about Thaci’s crimesâ€
December 18th, 2010 |
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CoE investigator Dick Marty told Swiss daily Le Temps that the majority of countries had been aware of the criminal activities of Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci.
“Numerous reports of the intelligence services, the German, British, Italian, and Greek ones, as well as reports of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were sent to various foreign ministries,†he explained.
Marty: Everyone knew about shocking crimes
December 16th, 2010 |
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Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty addressed reporters today as his draft report on human organ trafficking was adopted.
The Swiss, known for his exposure of illegal CIA-run prisons in Europe, put together a damning report on allegations that Serb and other civilians in Kosovo were kidnapped in the wake of the 1999 war, and taken to Albania where their organs were removed and sold in the black market.
Closing arguments in KLA war crimes case
December 16th, 2010 |
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The War Crimes Chamber of the Higher Court in Belgrade will today hear closing arguments in the trial of the Gnjilane Group of the so-called KLA. A total of 17 ethnic Albanians have been charged with torture and vicious murder of Serb and other civilians in the town of Gnjilane, eastern Kosovo, in 1999.
“Communist crimes not equal to Holocaust”
December 15th, 2010 |
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Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Bishop Irinej says he is against any equating of the German Nazi crimes with those committed by communists in former Yugoslavia. “Without justifying any execution without a trial, we cannot put an equation sign between that kind of terror and the Holocaust,” the SPC dignitary told the Holocaust Seminar at the Assembly of Vojvodina in Novi Sad.