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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The Supreme Court of Kosovo upholds the decision in the Gani Hazeraj case

n January 19, 2010, a mixed panel of the Supreme Court of Kosovë/Kosovo, presided by EULEX-appointed judge Emilio Gatti, upheld the first-instance judgment of the District Court in Prizren sentencing the accused Gani Hazeraj to six (6) months jail sentence suspended for one year for participation in the March 2004 violence in Prizren. The sentence will not be executed if the accused does not commit another criminal offense during the twelve-month period starting on the day the sentence became legally binding.


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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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NGOs call on Serbian government to disclose mass graves dating from the Milošević regime

We support the foundation of a State Commission tasked with finding and marking all secret graves created after 1944, and we demand that the government of the Republic of Serbia establish another commission tasked with disclosing the remaining mass graves in Serbia, created during the time of the armed conflicts waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and also tasked with investigating allegations that bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims were incinerated in the Mačkatica factory, in the Obilić thermal-electric power plant, in Niš and Smederevo during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).


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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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