Bosnia Daily: The Promise and Peril of Regional Truth Seeking in the Balkans

The author assesses the projected ambitious goals of the recent regional non-governmental truth-seeking initiative for ex Yugoslavia, arguing that its innovative regional approach is both its strength and a significant weakness that might undermine the goal of establishing a coherent historical narrative.

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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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