TRANZICIONA PRAVDA U SRBIJI u periodu od 2013. do 2015. godine
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN SERBIA in the period from 2013 to 2015

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Law and Transitional Justice, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: transitional justice; war crimes prosecution; political will; victims’ reparations; missing persons; regional reconciliation; institutional reform
Summary/Abstract: The multiannual monitoring of progress in establishing transitional justice shows that Serbia is making very slow progress in applying transitional justice mechanisms regarding the human rights violations during the armed conflicts of the 1990s. The key obstacle is the lack of political will for a comprehensive, honest and institutionalized confrontation with the legacy of the 1990s war. In contradiction to the declarated dedication of state representatives to the reconciliation processes in the region of former Yugoslavia, concrete measures in establishing transitional justice are mainly lacking or do not receive sufficient support from the political actors. Rarely applied mechanisms, like war crimes trials and searches for the missing persons, are the result of requests made by the international community, and are in practice under the strong influence of the political authorities and their ideologies. The real relationship of the representatives of the political elite towards the need to establish justice regarding the crimes of the 1990s is probably best illustrated by their public support to convicted war crimes perpetrators and individuals about whom there are serious indications of involvement in war crimes.

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