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.
On February 16th 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) presented data on the killed and missing victims in the area of the municipality of Malishevë/Mališevo in the period 1998 and 1999. The Presentation, which was held in the hall of the Malishevë/Malishevë Municipal Assembly, was attended by over 90 family members of the killed and missing.
On February 9th 2010, in the Gnjilane/Gjilan Municipal Assembly, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC – Kosovo) presented the interim results of the record of killed and missing Albanians in the municipalities of Gnjilane/Gjilan, Viti/Viti, Kamenica/Kamenica and Novo Brdo/Novobërde in the period from January 1st 1998 until June 14th 2000. Seventy family members of the killed and missing, media representatives from Serbia and Kosovo and representatives of KFOR attended the presentation.
February 3rd 2010
The people in Serbia took rather placidly the news about President Tadić’s initiative to ask the Serbian Parliament to adopt a resolution on the recognition of Srebrenica victims. Human rights organizations accepted it, among other things, as a result of many months of their constant pressure and protest directed at state institutions to declare July 11th Victims of Srebrenica Memorial Day.
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On 29 January 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) held a public presentation of the interim results of the record of killed and missing Serbs, Roma, Montenegrins, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in Kosovo in the period from January 1998 until December 2000. The presentation took place in the in the Gračanica/Graçanicë Cultural Center and was attended by around 100 family members of the victims, representatives of associations of victims, representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), and the media.
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.
More than 80 family members of the killed and missing attended a presentation of the interim results of the record of the killed, dead and missing in the municipality of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë on January 19th 2010 which was organized by the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) in the Rexhep Mitrovica Cultural Center.
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.
A mixed trial chamber of the Kosovo Supreme Court, presided by international judge Gerrit-Marc Sprenger, confirmed on January 1st 2010 the first instance judgement rendered by the Peć/Pejë District Court and sentenced Bedri Krasniqi to 27 years of imprisonment for the murder of two and attempted murder of one member of the Kosovo Police Service.
