Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries. 1 Report for 2006 Contents Summary...........................................................................................................................................5 War Crime Trials ........................................................................................................... 5 Fact Finding ..................................................................................................................... 6 Lustration ......................................................................................................................... 7 Reparations ...................................................................................................................... 7 I..War.Crimes.Trials.......................................................................................................................8 Croatia.....................................................................................................................................8 Amnesty .......................................................................................................................... 11 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .11 Trials before Local Courts .......................................................................................... 12 Trials before the War Crimes Chamber of the BiH Court ................................. 13 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .14 Serbia’s Lack of Co-operation with the Hague Tribunal .................................... 15 Kosovo................................................................................................................................. .16 Montenegro........................................................................................................................ .17 Regional.Co-operation..................................................................................................... .18 II..“Lustration”............................................................................................................................. .19 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .19 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .20 Kosovo................................................................................................................................. .21 Croatia................................................................................................................................. .22 III..Mechanisms.of.Fact.Finding.............................................................................................. .22 Truth.Commissions............................................................................................................... .22 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .23 Truth Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina ................................................... 23 Sarajevo Commission ................................................................................................. 24 Initiatives.for.Establishing.Truth.Commissions.on.Regional.Level........................ .25 Establishing.the.Fate.of.the.Missing.Persons.................................................................... .26 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .27 Not Applying the State Law on Missing Persons .................................................. 28 Decisions by the Human Rights Chamber/Human Rights Commission ........ 29 Croatia................................................................................................................................. .29 Big Discrepancies in the Data of the Croatian Office for the Missing Persons and associations of Serbs ................................................ 30 Discontent of the Families Because of the Delay in Exhumations and Identifications ....................................................................................................... 31 Kosovo................................................................................................................................. .32 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .33 Montenegro........................................................................................................................ .33 The.Role.of.International.Organizations...................................................................... .33 Parliamentary.Debates.on.War.Crimes............................................................................. .34 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .34 Croatia................................................................................................................................. .37 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .40 Unofficial.Initiatives.for.Fact-Finding................................................................................ .41 Research and Documentation Center and Humanitarian Law Center – Victims’ Listing ...................................................... 42 OMPF – Oral History in Kosovo .............................................................................. 42 Documenta – Oral History on Pakrac and Lipik (Croatia) .............................. 42 Scholars’ Initiative ........................................................................................................ 42 IV..Reparations............................................................................................................................ .43 Reparations.on.the.Basis.of.Statute.................................................................................... .44 Croatia................................................................................................................................. .44 The Rights of War Invalids ......................................................................................... 44 Family Disability Pensions ......................................................................................... 45 Social Aid (opskrbnina) .............................................................................................. 46 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .46 Federation BiH .............................................................................................................. 46 Republika Srpska .......................................................................................................... 47 State Level ...................................................................................................................... 49 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .50 The Rights of War Invalids ......................................................................................... 51 Family Disability Allowances and Monthly Income............................................ 52 The Rights of Families of Missing Persons ............................................................... 52 Kosovo................................................................................................................................. .53 Rights of the Families of the Missing ........................................................................ 55 Montenegro........................................................................................................................ .55 Personal War Disability Pensions (Military and Civilian) ................................ 55 4 Family Disability Pensions for Family Members of Servicemen Killed in Combat ............................................................................... 56 Reparations.Based.on.Court.Decisions............................................................................. .56 Bosnia.and.Herzegovina................................................................................................... .56 Human Rights Chamber and Human Rights Commission ................................ 57 Serbia................................................................................................................................... .58 Croatia................................................................................................................................. .60 Montenegro........................................................................................................................ .61 Kosovo................................................................................................................................. .62 Reparations.between.States.................................................................................................. .63 Return.and.Reconstruction.of.Property...........................................................................