CORECOM

In the post-Yugoslav societies war crimes committed by the other side in the conflict are often talked about, even more often exaggerated, while the authorities continue to relativize, minimize, or justify the crimes committed against opposing sides in the conflict.
Identification and solidarity with members of the same community accused of war crimes is very strong, while members of other communities suspected of committing war crimes are accused arbitrarily.
Victims are being forgotten and the public only hears about them during state sponsored ceremonies.
The fate of 16,252 missing persons is still unclear and a number of gravesites are still undisclosed.
There is no political interest to establish the facts about the events of the past, and the much-needed pressure of the free-thinking public is still missing.

The Initiative to create RECOM is a civil-society-driven process for the creation of an interstate and independent commission mandated to investigate and publicly disclose the facts about war crimes and other serious human rights abuses in the past committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, including the truth about the missing.

So far, 487 members joined the Coalition, the Humanitarian Law Center is one of the initiators.

DWP Fields:
Fact Finding
Missing Persons
Public Debates

DWP Actors:
Humanitarian Law Center in Kosovo (HLC-Kosovo)

Dates:
2008 — On-going

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