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21 December 2007
Further to the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's investigation
request, members of the Serbian police (MUP) arrested Goran
Savić (38) from Kraljevo, due to a reasonable suspicion of
his involvement in a war crime committed in the Zvornik
municipality area in 1992.
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29 November 2007
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9 November 2007
INDICTMENT BROUGHT AGAINST ILIJA JURIŠIĆ
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has brought a criminal
indictment against Ilija Jurišić (64), charging him with
using impermissible means of combat during the attack
against a column of soldiers, members of the Yugoslav
People’s Army (JNA) in Tuzla on 15 May 1992.
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8 November 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor brought an indictment
against Zdravko Pašić (44), on suspicion of engagement in a
war crime against civilians, which took place in village
Slunj (Croatia) in 1991.
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2 November 2007
Terms Renewed for
Three Deputy War Crimes Prosecutors
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević has renewed
terms of office for his three deputies – Dragoljub
Stanković, Milan Petrović and Dušan Knežević, for an
additional legally envisaged period of four years.
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31 October 2007
VUKČEVIĆ AND MEDENICA SIGN A COOPERATION AGREEMENT
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Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević and
Montenegrin Supreme State Prosecutor Vesna Medenica met in
Podgorica today to sign the Agreement on Cooperation in
Prosecuting Perpetrators of Criminal Offences against
Humanity and Other Assets Protected by International Law.
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26 October 2007
War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević presented with the
prestigious Crans Montana Award
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On 26 October, at a special ceremony held within the Crans
Montana Summit in Monaco, the main board of the Crans
Montana Forum presented its prestigious Award to the Serbian
War Crimes Prosecutor, Mr. Vladimir Vukčević.
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22 October 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has addressed the War
Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, requesting
investigation against P.B. and R.V., who are suspected of
committing a war crime against civilians in village Banski
Kovačevac, in the area of Karlovac municipality (Croatia),
in May 1992.
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19 October 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has addressed the
investigative authority of the Belgrade District Court's War
Crimes Chamber, requesting investigation against Željko
Đukić, Dragan Medić, Dragan Borojević and Miodrag Šolaja, on
suspicion of engagement in a war crime committed in Podujevo
on 28 March 1999. On that occasion, according to the
prosecution charges, these individuals killed 14 and
seriously wounded 5 ethnic Albanian civilians, most of whom
were women and children.
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16 October 2007
POCAR GIVES A FAVOURABLE ACCOUNT OF HIS CO-OPERATION WITH
PROSECUTOR VUKČEVIĆ
The arresting of the remaining four fugitives, Radovan
Karadžić and Ratko Mladić in the first place, but Stojan
Župljanin and Goran Hadžić as well, is an issue of paramount
importance, President of the Hague Tribunal Fausto Pocar
pointed out in his address to the UN General Assembly. In
his early annual report on the Tribunal's work, Pocar
estimated his communication with Belgrade as »complicated«.
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15 October 2007
OSCE Mission Head
concerned over verbal assaults and threats to War Crimes
Prosecutor
Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, the Head of the OSCE Mission to
Serbia, voiced concern today over recent repeated verbal
assaults and threats to the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor,
his deputies and spokesperson by some members of the Serbian
Parliament.
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2 October 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor, Vladimir Vukčević, has
left for Croatia, where, in the course of the next two days,
he will be attending a regional prosecutors' meeting taking
place on the island of Hvar. Along with his counterparts –
Croatian Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajić, BH Chief
Prosecutor Marinko Jurčević, Montenegrin Chief Prosecutor
Vesna Medenica and Macedonian Chief Prosecutor Ljubčo
Švrgovski, the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor will discuss
aspects of cooperation with the team in charge of the ICTY
completion strategy.
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27 September 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor filed a submission to the
investigative authority of the Belgrade District Court's War
Crimes Chamber, requesting investigation against Z. P, a
former member of the Republic of Srpska Krajina local
police, due to a grounded suspicion that he committed a war
crime against civilian population in village Slunj (Croatia)
in 1991.
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26 September 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor is interested in the case
of Shpelzim Dellmiri, who was arrested in Holland yesterday
pursuant to an Interpol-issued warrant. A former KLA member,
Dellmiri has been sought for his alleged engagement in
terrorist activities during the war in Kosovo and Metohija,
and on the basis of indications that he committed a war
crime against non Albanian population.
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18
September 2007
Minister of Justice Visits the War Crimes Prosecutor's
Office
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The Offices of the War Crimes Prosecutor and Special
Prosecutor, as well as the District Court departments of War
Crimes and Organised Crime, are of immense importance for
Serbia, said Dušan Petrović, the Serbian Minister of
Justice, at a press conference following his meeting with
Vladimir Vukčević, the War Crimes Prosecutor.
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17 September 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor filed an appeal with the
Serbian Supreme Court today, relating to the first-instance
verdicts in the Scorpions case, rendered by the War Crimes
Chamber of the Belgrade District Court.
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30 July 2007
War Crimes Prosecutor Indicts Vladimir Kovačević aka Rambo
for Dubrovnik Shelling
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has raised an indictment
against Vladimir Kovačević aka Rambo, a retired JNA officer,
for a war crime against civilians, committed in Dubrovnik in
December 1991.
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20 July 2007
At the War Crimes
Prosecutor's Office, Norwegian & Swedish Investigators Hear
New Witnesses in the Dretelj Case
On the premises of the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office,
Norwegian and Swedish investigative authorities have
interviewed nine new witnesses this week, related to the
Dretelj case. The case addresses a war crime against
civilian population committed at the Dretelj camp, which was
controlled by the Croatian defence force in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Throughout the period May - August 1992,
Dretelj was a detention centre for at least 211 ethnic Serbs
captured by the Croatian and Muslim authorities.
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18 July 2007
Prosecutor Indicts
Sinan Morina for a War Crime in Village Opteruša, Kosovo
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has issued an indictment
against Sinan Morina, a member of the KLA Orahovac Group,
for a war crime against civilian population committed in the
area of the Orahovac municipality, Kosovo and Metohia.
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17 July 2007
TWELVE SUSPECTS FACING INVESTIGATION IN THE »LOVAS« CASE
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor submitted today an
investigation motion to the investigative judge of the
Belgrade District Court's War Crimes Chamber. The
investigation is due to involve 12 persons suspected of a
war crime against civilians, committed in Lovas (Croatia),
in October and November 1991.
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12 July 2007
VUKCEVIC ATTENDING A BRIONI REGIONAL CONFERENCE: ZAGREB
REFERS SIX CASES TO BELGRADE
The Croatian State Prosecutor referred six cases, out of
which five are immediately entering the next procedural
stage, to the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor. A result of the
Agreement on Cooperation in Prosecution of War Crimes,
Crimes against Humanity and Genocide, the referral was
carried out within the Prosecutors' Regional Conference
«Cooperation of State Prosecutors – Present and Future Forms
of Cooperation», held on 12 and 13 July in Brioni, under the
auspices of the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office.
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11 July 2007
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has addressed the
investigative authority of the Belgrade District Court's War
Crimes Chamber, with a request for investigation against two
Kraljevo residents, due to a grounded suspicion that they
committed a war crime against civilian population in the
Zvornik municipality area in 1992.
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29 June 2007
Vukčević – Del Ponte meeting in Monaco today
In the framework of the 18th annual Crans Montana Forum,
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević and the
Hague Tribunal's Chief Prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, will
meet in Monaco today.
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ADDRESS
OF THE SERBIAN WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR
19 June 2007
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7
June 2007
Vukčević – Del Ponte
Talks Constructive and Successful
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Completing her three-day visit to Belgrade, from 5 to 7
June, Carla Del Ponte, the Hague Tribunal's Chief
Prosecutor, phoned EU Commissioner Oli Ren from the office
of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor and Action Plan
Coordinator, Mr. Vladimir Vukčević, to report on Serbia's
progress on cooperation with the Tribunal. In the aftermath
of the phone call, the continuation of Serbia's negotiations
with the EU was confirmed.
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1 June 2007
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30 May 2007
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29 May 2007
The Collegium of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office
condemns the untruthful statements put forth by Mr.
Aleksandar Vučić, the Serbian Radical Party’s secretary
general, at the party’s press conference held on Sunday, 27
May 2007
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15 May 2007
INVESTIGATION INTO THE “TUZLA COLUMN” CASE CONTINUES
Further to the arrest of Ilija Jurišić, suspected of direct
involvement in ordering the attack against a column of JNA
soldiers withdrawing from Tuzla on 15 May 1992, Mr. Vladimir
Vukčević, the War Crimes Prosecutor, pointed out that the
investigation into this war crime was in progress. “The
circle of suspects is being expanded, and so is the number
of identified victims”, Prosecutor Vukčević said, specifying
that 89 youths killed on that day had been identified so
far. The Prosecutor added that a suspected death toll
surmounted a total of two hundred, whereas the number of
those who had been taken captive and brutalised was
estimated at over one hundred.
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9 May 2007
A
DRETELJ CRIME SUSPECT ARRESTED IN NORWAY
In the aftermath of the co-operation of the Serbian War
Crimes Prosecutor's Office with the Norwegian authorities –
the National Authority for Prosecution of Organised and
Other Serious Crime and National Criminal Investigation
Service (CRIPOS), M.R., a forty-year old BH native suspected
of committing a war crime against Bosnian Serbs at the
Dretelj detainee camp in 1992, was arrested in Norway
yesterday.
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15 April 2007
A
BANJICA WAR CRIME INVESTIGATION
The War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office filed a request for
investigation against Sabit Getaj, Hisen Muhalj and Sokolj
Ramaj, due to a grounded suspicion that in May 1998 the
three, acting as KLA members, committed a war crime against
civilians at Banjica site, Glogovac municipality.
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10 April 2007
APPEAL AGAINST THE »SCORPIONS« VERDICT SOON TO BE FILED BY
THE PROSECUTOR
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević announced an
appeal against the verdict passed in the »Scorpions« case.
At a press conference following the pronouncement of the
Court's decision, Vukčević said that he was partly satisfied
with the verdicts rendered to the »Scorpions« members,
assessing the proceedings, which were initiated in January
2005, as efficient.
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28 February 2007
The War Crimes Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Serbia
addressed the Belgrade District Court's War Crimes Chamber
with a request for investigation against four persons, due
to a grounded suspicion that they had committed a war crime
against Agron, Mehmet and Ylli Bytyqi in Petrovo Selo, in
July 1999.
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27 February 2007
WORKING SESSION WITH FAMILIES OF VICTIMS FROM KOSOVO AND
METOHIA
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's representatives held a
working session with a delegation of the Association of
Families of civilians, soldiers and police officers who had
been kidnapped, captured or killed in Kosovo and Metohia.
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27
February 2007
HIGH OSCE DELEGATION SUPPORTS ACTIVITIES OF WAR CRIMES
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AND CHAMBER
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War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević and President of the
Belgrade District Court and the War Crimes Chamber Siniša
Važić met today with H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the
Spanish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
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22 February 2007
In commemoration of 22 February, the International Victims'
Day, the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of
Serbia expresses its profound sympathy for the surviving war
crimes victims and their families, emphasizing that it will
remain consistent in rendering them institutional support
based on the principles of justice and equality.
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5
February 2007
ROUND TABLE «JUSTICE IN THE REGION» HELD IN BELGRADE
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«We have offered a helping hand to each others and jointly
embarked on settling some of the most delicate problems. By
doing so, we have demonstrated our respect for all of the
150,000 victims who lost their lives in the wars conducted
throughout the territories of the former Yugoslav republics.
Our professional links are now based right on those issues
which once used to be a stumbling stone in communication
among our states», said Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor
Vladimir Vukčević opening the Round Table «Justice in the
Region».
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VLADIMIR
VUKČEVIĆ, THE WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR - OPENING ADDRESS AT THE
CONFERENCE »JUSTICE IN THE REGION«
19 January 2007
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