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In the period from September until December 2008, the Humanitarian Law Center – Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo) conducted a research on the implementation of the Law on the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Communities and Their Members in the Republic of Kosovo, with special focus on the creation of the Consultative Council for Communities within the Kosovo President’s Cabinet. This law was passed on 13 March 2008 and entered into force on 15 June 2008, while the decree of the President of Kosovo, on establishment of the Consultative Council, was made on 15 September 2008.... >>
HLC-Kosovo is the only nongovernmental organization monitoring trials of war crimes and ethnically motivated criminal offences in Kosovo. In 2007, HLC-Kosovo monitored 117 main hearings in 21 cases before municipal and district courts, as well as four cases before the Supreme Court of Kosovo. The persons examined in these [monitored] cases included 119 witnesses (two of whom were protected witnesses) and five ballistic experts and neuropsychiatrists. In all cases the indictments were brought and represented by international prosecutors. All the chamber presidents are international judges, with local judges serving as trial chamber members.... >>
In the period following the toppling of Slobodan Milošević, the transitional government supported domestic war crimes trials, but it soon became clear that serious impediments existed. Police was not willing to share its data on war crimes perpetrators with prosecutors, primarily because most of them belonged to the police.... >>
Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its
predecessor, and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.
Hannah Arendt, ''Eichmann in Jerusalem''
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Regional Civil Society Coalition created to advocate the Establishment of RECOM
Date:31/10/2008 14:09

A coalition of human rights organizations, associations of victims and family members of the killed and missing, youth organizations, women’s groups, organizations for peace and democracy development, and other nongovernmental organizations and professional groups that will advocate the official establishment of a regional commission for truth-seeking about war crimes and other serious human rights violations committed in the recent past (RECOM) was created at the Fourth Regional Forum, held on 28 and 29 October in Priština. A total of 108 organizations and 155 individuals from the successor states of the former Yugoslavia joined the Coalition at the Forum....
Organization member of Regional coalition for advocate the establishment of RECOM
Date:31/10/2008 12:54

Bosnia and Herzegovina Non-governmental organizations and associations Association Women to Women Helsinki Parliament of Citizens Banja Luka Association of Ex-Detainees in Brčko District Center for Non-violent Action...