International Day of the Disappeared 2014: More than 11000 still missing in the Western Balkans

International Day of the Disappeared 2014: More than 11000 still missing in the Western Balkans

ICRC_logoThe past conflicts in the Western Balkan left thousands of missing people. The ICRC registered more than 34 000 cases related to the conflicts in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. More than 23 000 were already resolved, but over 11 000 families remain without an answer about the fate of their missing relatives.

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Coalition for RECOM: Finding the bodily remains of ‘the missing’ is a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of the past

Coalition for RECOM: Finding the bodily remains of ‘the missing’ is a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of the past

zarekom_ruke_postSome 23 years after the outbreak of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the bodies of 13,000 victims remain unaccounted for. On the occasion of the International Day of Missing Persons, the Coalition for RECOM calls on the governments of the post-Yugoslav countries in the region, national commissions and other competent bodies to confirm that the discovery of the bodily remains of involuntarily missing persons is a priority, and a key element of their regional cooperation. In so doing, they will lay a cornerstone in the development of a public culture of memory of their common past.

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War Crimes Department in Belgrade is hampering the trial for crimes committed in the village of Terrnje

War Crimes Department in Belgrade is hampering the trial for crimes committed in the village of Terrnje

fdh_kosovo_logoFamilies of the victims of Terrnje village, Municipality of Suva Reka, informed the Head of Department for War Crimes in Belgrade, Judge Mirjana Ilic, who is also the presiding judge in the case against officers Rajko Kozlina and Pavle Gavrilovic for the murder of 27 women, children, and the elderly on 25th March 1999, that they will not take part in further proceedings due to her decision to exclude the representatives of injured parties (lawyers from Kosovo) on the grounds that they are not registered with the Serbian Chamber of Advocates.

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HLC Kosovo: On the occasion of statement of the Special Investigation Team Prosecutor

HLC Kosovo: On the occasion of statement of the Special Investigation Team Prosecutor

The Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) considers that the results, to date, of the investigations of the Special Task Force, led by Prosecutor Clint Williamson, convincingly show that, after the war ended in Kosovo, there began a prosecution campaign against Serbs, Roma and other ethnic minorities, as well as KLA opponents, which is known of in Kosovo, but not talked about for safety reasons.


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