Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Right to RehabilitationThis law regulates rehabilitation of persons who were killed, imprisoned or deprived ofsome other rights for political or ideological reasons through a court or administrativedecision starting from April 6, 1941 to the day of coming into force of this law andhad the residence on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. 908Rehabilitation of Senad SljivoSenad Sljivo was employed in the Serbian Ministry of Interior from February1, 1986 to April 2, 1999. 909 All the time he had worked in the Secretariat ofInterior in Jagodina except for the period from June 1990 to 1993 when heworked in the Secretariat of Interior in Cuprija 910 . His engagement in thepolice started on June 1, 1980 when he got employed in the police stationin Foca in Bosnia-Herzegovina and later he was transferred to Serbia. 911He spent around twenty years in the police and he has never made a singeoffence, infringement of discipline or any other 912 .During the 1990s, as a member of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, heoften went to Kosovo – to Kosovska Vitina, Kosovska Kamenica, Prizren,Djakovica and the last time he was in Kosovo was in 1995 913 . According tothe statement given to the Initiative’s investigators, Senad Sljivo witnessed,during his stay in Kosovo, many violations of the service rules and variouscriminal acts committed by his fellow police officers against citizens ofAlbanian nationality 914 in Kosovo. All those cases, bearing in mind that a lotof members of his family were killed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina,that his three houses were burnt down and his health was poor, led him todecide not to the battlefield, not to Kosovo nor anywhere else 915 .Sljivo Senad spent two summer months of 1998 having hospital treatmentand operation in Health Center in Cuprija 916 . Still, he came back to duty in908 Law on rehabilitation, Article 1, see above under 736909 Incident’s report – case “Sljivo Senad”, February 8 th , 2006, available in the Initiative’s documentation910 Ibid911 Ibid912 Conviction of The Jagodina Municipal Court No 497/01 from May 14 th , 2001, available in the Initiative’sdocumentation913 Decision from The State Secretariat of Interior on Sljivo Senad’s sending to Vitina and Kosovska Kamenica,numbers 112-1596/90 from April 25 th , 1990 and 112-1596/90 from January24 th , 1992, available in the Initiative’sdocumentation914 See above under 909915 Ibid916 Release form with medical explanation from the Cuprija Health Center number 772, signed by doctor Balov165