Discussion held on “Past crimes – possibilities of using Transitional Justice mechanisms in addressing the Kurdish issue in Turkey”
On the occasion of the visit by the Istanbul-based Hafiza Merkezi Centre to the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC), a discussion on the subject “Past crimes – possibilities of using transitional justice mechanisms in addressing the Kurdish issue“, was held on 28 March 2013 in the HLC library. In their opening remarks, the members of the Hafiza Merkezi Centre (Centre for Truth, Justice and Memory), an organisation aiming to uncover the truth about human rights violations in Turkey, preserve the nation’s collective memory and support the survivors and their families in the pursuit of justice, introduced themselves and their organisation to the discussion participants.
A Yugoslav Army brigade’s military assaults on eight Kosovo villages that killed 885 people in 1999 have now been fully documented, but Serbia may never prosecute its commander.
A group of students and professors from France, Germany, Croatia, and Serbia visited the Humanitarian Law Center on Thursday, March 14th, 2013 as part of the study visit organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Serbia and the Local Democracy Agency from Croatia.