RECOM-initiative-voice
RECOM Initiative !Voice 14-2013
Date: 29.04.2013.
So what are we to do with the legacy of the ICTY? This willprimarily depend on us. What we do with this legacy andhow we use it will depend on what kind of society we actually want to live in. For a start, wemust realize that, where the victims of the wars in the former Yugoslavia are the...
RECOM Initiative !Voice 13-2013
Date: 19.03.2013.
"We in the Coalition for RECOM think it is time that the authorities of all the countries of the former Yugoslavia become aware of the need to establish a transitional justice system and a fact-finding mission tasked with establishing the facts about all our victims. The war legacy continues to...
RECOM Initiative !Voice 12-2013
Date: 07.02.2013.
However, the real strength of RECOM in my view lies in its trans-border character, through which the consultations and discussions are taking place in more than one area and more than one country of the former Yugoslavia. In this way, it is definitely producing a more inclusive and more balanced...
RECOM Initiative !Voice 11-2012
Date: 11.12.2012.
Kacin said he believed that now was the right moment to put extra effort into the establishment of RECOM. “The process of reconciliation is imperative. Regardless of how the work of the Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is perceived, it is indisputable that regional...
RECOM Initiative !Voice 10-2012 ENG
Date: 06.11.2012.
But the thing that hurts victims' families the most is the issue of missing persons. They are only looking for one thing and that is to know what has happened to their loved ones. If there is any way to increase their pain, then it is by ignoring and belittling their suffering.
RECOM Initiative !Voice 9-2012 ENG
Date: 14.09.2012.
First of all, the politicians are often reluctant to talk about dealing with the past, and they don’t do it much. It is even more difficult for them to show consistency, determination and willingness to take on specific commitments that will contribute to the setting up of a regional Commission...
RECOM Initiative !Voice - 8/2012
Date: 25.07.2012.
Judgments are important because it is important that courts prove what happened. Of course, final judgments are satisfaction for the victims. It is altogether a different question whether a such judgment is adequate, or whether a mother who no longer has anyone, can accept that a criminal,...
RECOM Initiative !Voice - 7/2012
Date: 02.07.2012.
The process of overcoming the past represents a painful and long-lasting process, which begins with dealing with historical facts that one cannot run away from, which cannot be denied and which must not be forgotten in order to avoid a long-lasting spiral of crimes and conflicts. [...] That is...
RECOM Initiative !Voice - 6/2012
Date: 10.05.2012.
For over a decade, since the weapons have been muted, post-Yugoslav societies have not been given a chance to cope with the heavy legacy of the war past in large part because to date there is no clarity about the fate of a large number of those who were killed, forcibly disappeared, tortured,...
RECOM Initiative !Voice - 5/2012
Date: 09.04.2012.
Nationalistpoliticians don’t like to see the facts established and don’t like any such ‘return to the past’’ They are in favor of the following logic instead: ‘Enough of the past, let’s turn to the future’. And if they have to talk about the recent past, they talk about it in terms of their own...
