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Croatia EU/Serbia: Don’t Compromise on Mladic EU Should Insist on Full Cooperation With Yugoslav Tribunal The European Commission’s decision to move ahead with an association agreement with Serbia despite Belgrade’s failure to arrest a key suspect could threaten efforts to bring war criminals to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. November 6, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version Serbia Must Boost Support for War Crimes Chamber Council of Europe to Adopt Report on Balkans Prosecutions Today Serbia’s War Crimes Chamber has made significant progress in domestic prosecutions since its establishment in 2003, but the Serbian government must increase its support for the chamber if it is to end impunity for war crimes in Serbia, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. June 28, 2007 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Narrowing the Impunity Gap Trials before Bosnia’s War Crimes Chamber This 61-page report evaluates the chamber’s work in conducting trials. Although a relatively new institution, the chamber has made substantial headway in trying cases, including the trial of 11 defendants charged with genocide for their role in the Srebrenica massacre. Other important accomplishments include introducing support for witnesses in the pre-indictment phase and establishing an effective defense office committed to assisting defendants in trials before the chamber. HRW Index No.: D1901 February 12, 2007 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 406 KB, 58 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Weighing the Evidence Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial This 76-page report examines key evidence introduced at trial, the most comprehensive account to date of the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The report finds that the trial revealed how leaders in Belgrade and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia financed the wars; how they provided material to Croatian and Bosnian Serbs; and how they created administrative and personnel structures to support the Croatian Serb and Bosnian Serb armies. The report traces the mechanisms, some of which were previously secret, by which Belgrade fueled the conflicts. HRW Index No.: D1810 December 14, 2006 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 339 KB, 80 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Croatia: Plight of Returning Serb Refugees May Slow EU Bid EU Should Press Zagreb to Take Stronger Action on Security, Housing, Employment Serb refugees returning to Croatia face significant obstacles to the full enjoyment of their human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Croatia is a candidate for European Union membership, and respect for minority rights is a requirement. September 5, 2006 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Croatia: A Decade of Disappointment Continuing Obstacles to the Reintegration of Serb Returnees This 41-page report analyzes the key human rights problems affecting Serbs returning to Croatia, including violence and intimidation, the loss of housing rights and limited access to state employment. Successive government programs to assist returning Serbs have failed to deliver real benefits, with the qualified exception of a program to rebuild war-damaged homes. HRW Index No.: D1807 September 5, 2006 Report Download PDF, 317 KB, 43 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Kosovo: Criminal Justice System Fails Victims Accountability Must Be Central to Status Talks The criminal justice system continues to fail victims in Kosovo, despite almost seven years of international administration, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Kosovo’s future status is currently the subject of intense negotiations mediated by the international community. May 30, 2006 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Bosnian Serb Republic Takes First Steps to Justice Huge Challenges to Keep War Crimes Trials Going After 10 years of allowing suspected war criminals to go free, Bosnia’s Serb Republic is taking its first steps to bring them to justice, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. But sustaining that progress depends on local commitment and international support. March 16, 2006 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Milosevic Won't Escape History's Verdict Published in International Herald Tribune Slobodan Milosevic conducted his legal defense much as he did his political life: with bombast, bullying and belligerence. Observing Milosevic for weeks and weeks in The Hague in the first half of his four-year trial, it became quickly clear to me that he was undertaking a political offensive in the courtroom rather than presenting a rebuttal of the 66 charges he faced. March 13, 2006 Commentary Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Concerns on the Western Balkans Letter to EU Foreign Minister We are writing in advance of the informal Gymnich meeting of E.U. foreign ministers in Salzburg on March 10-11. We are pleased to note that relations with the Western Balkans will be high on the agenda of this meeting, with the stated objective to “reaffirm the E.U.’s goals and to agree on ways and means to reinforce the E.U.’s efforts in the region.” We wish to take the opportunity of this meeting to highlight a select number of pressing concerns which we believe the E.U. would be particularly well-placed to address as part of its engagement with these countries. March 7, 2006 Letter Printer friendly version Serbia Fails to Curb Violence Against Minorities Weak Government Response and Lenient Sentences Encourage Extremists The Serbian government is failing to tackle a rising tide of violence against the country’s ethnic and religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today as the European Union enlargement commissioner visits Belgrade. October 10, 2005 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Ex-Yugoslavia: Srebrenica Indictees Still at Large Nearly a decade after Srebrenica, the failure to bring Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to justice mocks the memory of the thousands who died in the 1995 massacre, Human Rights Watch said today. European governments and the United States must redouble their efforts to ensure the arrest of these wartime leaders, indicted as the principal architects of the killings. June 13, 2005 Press Release Printer friendly version E.U.: Parliament Adopts Fair Trials On April 14, 2005, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Western Balkans incorporating language written by Human Rights Watch on the importance of fair and effective domestic war crimes trials. Human Rights Watch has consistently pressed the European Union to ensure that its relations with the countries of the Western Balkans be conditioned on compliance with human rights benchmarks, and, in particular, international justice standards. May 15, 2005 Advocacy Impact ’Crime of Opinion’ is One Thing, But War Crime is Another By Bogdan Ivanisevic, Human Rights Watch researcher on the former Yugoslavia Published in Danas (Belgrade) On January 22, 2005, a large group of law professors, politicians, and artists gathered in Belgrade’s Sava Center to support Vojislav Seselj, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). A number of participants repeated two legal arguments which, coming from well-known lawyers, purport to represent authoritative criticism of the tribunal. Both arguments, however, are patently false. February 11, 2005 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version Croatia: EU Must Address Domestic War Crimes Trials As Croatia prepares to begin EU membership negotiations, the European Union should insist that Croatian courts make clear progress in trying war crimes cases, Human Rights Watch said today. December 20, 2004 Press Release Printer friendly version Croatia: Ruling Hinders Refugee Returns European Court of Human Rights Should Reconsider Tenancy Rights Case The European Court of Human Rights should reconsider a landmark case on housing rights in Croatia, Human Rights Watch said today. The case concerns the wartime termination of the right to occupy socially-owned property (so-called “tenancy rights”)—a continuing obstacle to the return of Serb refugees to Croatia. In July this year, the Court held that a refugee would have had to return to a war zone in Croatia to preserve her tenancy rights there—a ruling that runs counter to international humanitarian and refugee law. November 17, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version The Real State of War Crimes Prosecutions in Croatia Response to an Article in Vjesnik Published in Vjesnik A recent article by Vlado Rajic in Vjesnik (“Leveling On the Part of Human Rights Defenders,” October 16, 2004) about Human Rights Watch’s report on domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro, misrepresents both the report and the actual state of war crimes prosecutions in Croatia. October 30, 2004 Commentary Printer friendly version Balkans: Local Courts Currently Unprepared to Try War Crimes Domestic war crimes trials in Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are marred by ethnic bias, poor case preparation, and other factors, Human Rights Watch said today. With the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal scheduled to finish investigations by the end of the year, many war crimes prosecutions remain to be heard in courts in the former Yugoslavia that, as a rule, are ill-equipped to handle them. October 14, 2004 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Justice at Risk: War Crimes Trials in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro This 31-page report examines domestic war crimes trials that have taken place since 2000 for crimes committed during the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. Human Rights Watch has also monitored various of these trials. HRW Index No.: D1607 October 14, 2004 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 318 KB, 34 pgs Purchase online Q & A: Milosevic Trial (ICTY) Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic’s defense is scheduled to begin at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on August 31. This series of questions and answers provides background information, explains key concepts, evaluates the progression of the trial thus far, and describes what is yet to come. August 27, 2004 Background Briefing Printer friendly version |
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