Communicated on 8 September 2015
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 768/15
Stevan BULAJA and others
against Croatia
lodged on 16 December 2014
STATEMENT OF FACTS
A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.
The circumstances of the case
The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.
On 18 August 1995 the applicants’ relatives, D.B. and M.B., were killed in the village of Ićevo, allegedly by Croatian soldiers. The investigation into their deaths is still pending.
COMPLAINT
The applicants complain under the procedural aspect of Article 2 that the investigation into the deaths of their relatives was not effective.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Having regard to the procedural protection of the right to life (see paragraph 104 of Salman v. Turkey [GC], no. 21986/93, ECHR 2000-VII), has there been an investigation in the present case by the domestic authorities, complying with the requirements under Article 2 of the Convention?
Appendix
Stevan BULAJA is a Croatian national who was born in 1954, lives in Beograd and represented by L.ŠUŠAK Jelka ATLAGIC is a Croatian national who was born in 1948, lives in Novi Sad and represented by L.ŠUŠAK Olga JELACA is a Croatian national who was born in 1951, lives in Kistanje and represented by L.ŠUŠAK Danica KUJUNDŽIĆ is a Croatian national who was born in 1945, lives in Ravni Topolovac and represented by L.ŠUŠAK Manda ŠORGIĆ is a Croatian national who was born in 1946, lives in Beograd and represented by L.ŠUŠAK
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