NGO anger at Hague decision

A number of NGOs from Serbia and the former Yugoslavia want the Hague Tribunal to explain its decision to withhold certain Yugoslav Army documentation.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 05.11.2008.

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A number of NGOs from Serbia and the former Yugoslavia want the Hague Tribunal to explain its decision to withhold certain Yugoslav Army documentation. The human rights organizations want the Tribunal to explain its decision to accept Serbia's request to hide parts of the minutes of Yugoslav Supreme Defense Council (VSO) meetings, the text for which Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman for Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, is currently on trial for. NGO anger at Hague decision According to a joint statement released by the Humanitarian Law Fund and another 33 NGOs, an explanation is required to remove any lingering public doubt that the Hague was concealing these facts in order to “protect Serbia from responsibility for the genocide in Srebrenica.” The NGOs also call on Serbia to abandon protective measures approved by the Tribunal on parts of the VSO minutes and to make the contents public, in order to remove doubts that the hidden parts of the text are concealing facts about “Serbia's responsibility in committing genocide in Srebrenica.” Human rights organizations should be allowed to follow Hartmann’s trial where she is accused of publishing the Appeals Chamber’s confidential ruling in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the statement continues. The NGOs reiterate that the contents of these rulings were the subject of countless newspaper reports and a public debate following the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) verdict in Bosnia-Hercegovina’s case against Serbia in February 2007, and that it is not clear why Hague judges are now targeting Hartmann. At the time, the statement says, human rights organizations throughout the former Yugoslavia openly debated why the Hague Tribunal had not handed the minutes of the VSO meetings to the ICJ, and why the ICJ had not asked Serbia for these records during the genocide suit. Florence Hartmann (Fonet, archive)

NGO anger at Hague decision

According to a joint statement released by the Humanitarian Law Fund and another 33 NGOs, an explanation is required to remove any lingering public doubt that the Hague was concealing these facts in order to “protect Serbia from responsibility for the genocide in Srebrenica.”

The NGOs also call on Serbia to abandon protective measures approved by the Tribunal on parts of the VSO minutes and to make the contents public, in order to remove doubts that the hidden parts of the text are concealing facts about “Serbia's responsibility in committing genocide in Srebrenica.”

Human rights organizations should be allowed to follow Hartmann’s trial where she is accused of publishing the Appeals Chamber’s confidential ruling in the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the statement continues.

The NGOs reiterate that the contents of these rulings were the subject of countless newspaper reports and a public debate following the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) verdict in Bosnia-Hercegovina’s case against Serbia in February 2007, and that it is not clear why Hague judges are now targeting Hartmann.

At the time, the statement says, human rights organizations throughout the former Yugoslavia openly debated why the Hague Tribunal had not handed the minutes of the VSO meetings to the ICJ, and why the ICJ had not asked Serbia for these records during the genocide suit.

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