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The foundation of the HLC’s program is the War Crimes and Past Human Rights Violations Data Base (Data Base), which enables all information and documents pertaining to war crimes and other serious human rights violations to be organized in a professional manner, easy of access and permanently preserved.
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Over 40,000 documents have been entered into the Data Base between late 2004, when it was installed, and January 1st, 2012. Over 16,000 documents have emerged as a result of the process, which the HLC has been implementing since its foundation, of documenting war crimes and other human rights violations committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s.. Most valuable among these documents are witness statements provided by eyewitnesses of war crimes and human rights violations and/or by family relatives of victims and members of armed forces who died or disappeared. The HLC has collected more than 11,400 witness statements to date. The greatest number of statements relate to war crimes and human rights violations committed in Kosovo (9,939), then to war crimes and human rights violations committed in BiH (over 451 statements), then to war crimes and human rights violations committed in Croatia (more than 470), and then to human rights violations committed in Serbia(over 500). More than 70 statements relating to human rights violations committed in Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Albania have also been stored in the HLC’s Data Base.
Photographs of victims, mass grave sites, execution sites, memorials, monuments and headstones are also kept in the Data Base. Exhibits presented in the ICTY trials are also entered and analyzed in the Data Base. More than 6,133 such documents have been entered into the Data Base so far. In addition to this, the HLC also stores in its Data Base court files for war crimes trials conducted in the region, as well as court files for all earlier cases in which HLC attorneys have represented victims. The Data Base also contains reports by international and local state and non-governmental organizations, by foreign and domestic institutions, and in media archives, and many other documents.
Data relating to victims, soldiers, and perpetrators
By analyzing documents in the HLC’s Data Base, files have been created for 25,659 victims of war crimes and other human rights violations and for members of armed and police forces, including volunteer units, who died in battle throughout the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia. These files contain personal and family information, and information regarding the date and place of death or disappearance, the funerals, the perpetrators, etc. Each individual file is linked with all the documentary sources, which contain information on this particular person.
The greatest number of files have been created for the killed or missing in Kosovo in the period 1998-2000 (over 13,000); and the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro who were killed or disappeared in the wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and BiH (approximately 2,000), The Data Base also contains the files of several thousands of BiH and Croatian citizens who were killed or who disappeared in the wars in the period 1991-1995, and over 8,000 files of victims of other violations of international humanitarian law: forcible relocation, deportation, unlawful detention, torture, etc. Over 1,500 files of possible perpetrators of war crimes and other human rights violations have also been created in the Data Base.
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Since January 1, 2009, the HLC has been documenting the deaths and disappearances of citizens of Serbia and Montenegro that occurred over the course of the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and B&H. Its researchers have (as of August 31, 2012) conducted interviews with 716 witnesses and victims’ family members and completed an analysis of 7,041 documents relating to victims, war crimes and military operations. On the basis of that analysis, they were able to determine the identities of 1,930 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro who were killed or disappeared.
If you have any information about the victims that appear on either of these lists please contact us.
TO ESTABLISH THE FACTS RELATED TO ALL VICTIMS OF THE WARS WAGED IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, 1991-2001.
Every day more and more organizations and individuals are joining the Initiative for the creation of a regional commission tasked with establishing and publishing the facts related to the victims of the wars waged in the period 1991-2001 on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Today, the Coalition is made up of over 400 organizations and more than 300 individuals. We have joined together in an effort to help the governments in the region overcome the existing disputes and create a regional, official, and credible body.
The Commission will consist of eminent individuals well respected in their communities and across the region, representatives of various ethnic groups and religions, nominated and elected based on a set of previously established rules. We cannot think of a well-intentioned individual who would consider such a goal unacceptable or unwanted.
The fact of the matter is that until this is accomplished everyone will be able to use the number of victims at will, exaggerating their own while diminishing the losses of other sides. This serves the limited interests of certain individuals while hurting everybody else. Our life would be much better if the societies in which we live did not trip over our unexplored and undisclosed past.
Please join us. For your own sake. So that everybody knows. Lest we forget. So it doesn’t happen again. To move on. To live better.
As of February 2013, after a five year long investigation into the number of people that were killed or who disappeared over the course of the conflict in Kosovo (January 1, 1998 to June 20, 1999) and immediately following the conflict, up until the deployment of international forces (completed by the end of 2000) – the HLC and HLC Kosova collected 9,852 statements from witnesses, victims’ family members and persons with specific knowledge of victims and war crimes. 7,786 of those statements were taken from ethnic Albanian witnesses and victims’ family members; 1,613 from Serb witnesses and victims’ family members and 453 statements were given by individuals of other ethnicities. The HLC’s database now contains 5,541 photographs of victims, 6,936 other documents and 2,426 records from the Hague Tribunal’s archives that were used as evidence during the proceedings. By analyzing witness statements and documents from other sources, HLC and HLC Kosova researchers were able to document 13,526 disappearances or deaths that occurred between January 1, 1998 and the end of 2000.
On September 11, 2011, the HLC and HLC Kosova published the first volume of the Kosovo Memory Book. The book contains the names of 2,046 people who lost their lives in 1998 in connection with the Kosovo conflict. Each individual’s name is accompanied by a narrative of the specific circumstances of their death or disappearance.
More about Kosovo Memory Book on http://www.kosovomemorybook.org/
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The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) was established in 1992 by human rights activist Natasa Kandic as a human rights-based non-governmental organization that would document the egregious human rights violations that were then being perpetrated on a massive scale across the former Yugoslavia, during the armed conflicts in Croatia, in Bosnia, and later on Kosovo.
Mission:
The Humanitarian Law Center supports post-Yugoslav societies in the promotion of the rule of law and acceptance of the legacy of mass human rights violations, and therefore in establishing the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators, serving justice, and preventing recurrence.
In order to fulfill this mission, the HLC initiated an organizational transformation in mid-2004, prioritizing a comprehensive program of transitional justice activities that now consist of three core activity areas:
1. 1) Research and Documentation
2. 2) Justice and Institutional Reform
3. 3) Public Information and Outreach