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KEY CASE-LAW

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Al Nashiri v. Poland, no. 28761/11, 24 July 2014.

2. Fernandes de Oliveira v. Portugal [GC], no. 78103/14, 31 January 2019. 3. Georgia v. Russia (II) [GC] (merits), no. 38263/08, 21 January 2021. 4. Güzelyurtlu and Others v. Cyprus and Turkey [GC], no. 36925/07, 29 January 2019. 5. Idalov v. Russia [GC], no. 5826/03, 22 May 2012. 6. Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary [GC], no. 47287/15, 21 November 2019. 7. Jelić v. Croatia , no. 57856/11, 12 June 2014. 8. Maskhadova and Others v. Russia , no. 18071/05, 6 June 2013. 9. Nachova and Others v. Bulgaria [GC], nos. 43577/98 and 43579/98, ECHR 2005-VII. 10. Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia , no. 25965/04, ECHR 2010 (extracts). 11. Rooman v. Belgium [GC], no. 18052/11, 31 January 2019. 12. S.M. v. Croatia [GC], no. 60561/14, 25 June 2020. 13. Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey (no. 2) [GC], no. 14305/17, 22 December 2020. 14. Svinarenko and Slyadnev v. Russia [GC], nos. 32541/08 and 43441/08, ECHR 2014 (extracts). 15. Tymoshenko v. Ukraine , no. 49872/11, 30 April 2013. According to the applicant at 9.45 p.m. on 15 November 1991 five men, wearing camouflage uniforms and balaclavas, had come to their house and taken her husband, V., who was of Serbian ethnic origin. All five men were carrying firearms. She had reported the entire incident to the police on the same evening. On 19 November 1991 the police interviewed a certain B.S., who told them that on 15 November 1991 four men dressed in camouflage uniforms and wearing balaclavas had come to his flat and taken him to a lorry, where they had tied his hands and blindfolded him. Soon afterwards they had placed another person in the van, and they were transported to an unknown building. There the men had questioned him, then driven him somewhere else and released him. Later he learned that the other person who had been taken with him was V. On 9 February 1992 the body of V. was found on the banks of the river Kupa in Sisak. An autopsy carried out on 10 February 1992 showed that he had been shot dead. Police lodged a criminal complaint with the County State Attorney’s Office against a person or persons unknown on charges of murdering V. It appears that no further investigative measures were taken in respect of the death of V. between 1992 and September 1999. In 1996 the United Nations Security Council established the United Nations Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (the “UNTAES”). On 15 January 1998 the UNTAES mandate ceased and the transfer of power to the Croatian authorities began. On 10 September 1999 the Police Prevention of Terrorism Unit interviewed a certain S.K. He said that he had been collecting information about the killing of persons of Serbian ethnic origin in the area. To his knowledge more than eighty Serbs had been killed, all of them in the period 1991–1992. In addition, about five hundred persons of Serbian origin were listed as having disappeared. CASE STUDIES War crimes

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