Tanjug: RECOM model for overcoming the past

An interview with HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic

HLC executive director, Natasa Kandic, said today that the initiators of the initiative for the formation of a Regional Commission to establish the facts about war crimes and other serious violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM) believe that such a commission is the only way to overcome the past and that without dealing with the past there can be no the democratic future for the region. Kandic in interview with Tanjug said that about 500 NGOs, associations of victims, veterans, women and youth groups launched the initiative and are working intensively on drafting the statute and RECOM model, whose formation will made by decision of the successor states to the former Yugoslavia.


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Transitions Online: Acts of War – Judge Not …

A new initiative aims to seek the truth about the Yugoslav wars, not necessarily reconcile old enemies.

by Tihomir Loza


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B92: Stanje Nacije

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Balkan Insight: Call for Cross-border War Crimes ‘Truth Commission’

An interview with HLC Executive Director, Natasa Kandic

By: Pedja Obradovic in Belgrade

A broad regional coalition of civil society associations from the countries of the former Yugoslaviais planning to pressure the succession countries into forming a regional commission to establish the facts on war crimes and other severe violations of human rights.


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Deutsche Welle: If Mladic is not made to answer, why should anyone else?

The arrest of Ratko Mladic was one of the conditions of the international community for visa liberalization. Yet Serbian citizens will in a few days be able to travel without a visa in Europe, and Ratko Mladic remains at large. In an interview with Deutsche Welle radio, Natasa Kandic, executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center, said:


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Telegraph: Kosovan death toll is its argument for independence

A decade after the Kosovan conflict, activists are still trying to establish the number of victims. Analysts believe that this could be an important argument for a pro-independence ruling by a UN court.

Analysis by an AFP reporter in Pristina

Published: 2:25PM GMT 30 Nov 2009


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