TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE in Post-Yugoslav Countries. Report for 2010 – 2011
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE in Post-Yugoslav Countries. Report for 2010 – 2011

Contributor(s): Sandra Orlović (Editor)
Subject(s): Law and Transitional Justice, Penal Policy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: War Crim Trials;Transitional Justice;Post-Yugoslav Countries;Human rights;Reparations;Institutional Reforms;Lustration;Civil society;Truth commissions;Refugees;Memorials;
Summary/Abstract: Investigations prepared and initiated by the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia (OWCP) last a long time, and in a significant number of cases, do not result in indictments. The OWCP undertook preliminary actions in the case of mass crimes committed in the Dubrava Penitentiary in 2008; however, by the end of 2011, it still had not started an investigation. With regard to the criminal complaint filed by the HLC against the Commander of the Tenth Anti-Sabotage Detachment of the Republic of Srpska Army, Milorad Pelemiš, dating from August 2010, the OWCP publicly announced the initiation of criminal proceedings, but this still had not happened by the end of 2011. // During the year 2011, the OWCP indicted only nine persons, and only one of these indictments (charging three persons) is filed in a new case, while the indictments against six of the other persons emerged from earlier proceedings held before the Higher Court in Belgrade War Crimes Department. In cases of war crimes committed in Kosovo, the OWCP often files indictments on the basis of partial investigations, as happened in the Suva Reka/Suhareke and Ćuška/Qushk Cases...

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