Press Clipping
Macedonia Refuses to Face Its Troubled Past
Macedonia has yet to face up to what happened in its 2001 conflict with Albanian rebels, says Biljana Vankovska, an advocate for Balkan reconciliation initiative RECOM. BIRN: Johan Tarculovski was the only ethnic Macedonian convicted by the Hague Tribunal of war crimes after his police unit...
Public debate on Transitional Justice hosted in Banja Luka
On April 2, 2013, the Center for Democracy and Transitional Justice from Banja Luka hosted a debate on the “Accomplishments and challenges of transitional justice in post-Yugoslav countries”. The aim was to start a public debate about the accomplishments so far and challenges ahead in the...
'Bosnian Book of the Dead' Published
A Bosnian research group has issued a book with the names of around 96,000 victims of the 1990s conflict, intended to be the most accurate memorial yet published. “I think it is vital that we have, in one place, the names and identities of Bosnian citizens who were killed during the war,” said...
More than 30,000 people killed, 2 million people expelled
Omer Karabeg (Radio Free Europe ): We are talking with Nataša Kandić of the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Centre and Vesna Teršelić of the Zagreb NGO the Documenta Centre for Dealing with the Past. In September last year, activists of the RECOM Initiative sent the presidents of all the states in...
EU Ambassador Orav meets with Professor Vankovska, PhD, of the RECOM Coalition
The EU Ambassador to Macedonia, Aivo Orav, met earlier today with Biljana Vankovska, a Public Advocate for the Regional Commission on the Facts of all War Crimes perpetrated in the Former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001 (RECOM). The Ambassador was informed about the most recent developments...
EU Ambassador Orav meets with Public Advocate Professor Biljana Vankovska, PhD
Earlier today, Avio Orav, the Head of the EU Delegation to the Republic of Macedonia, met with RECOM Initiative (Regional Commission on the Facts of War Crimes perpetrated in the Former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001) Public Advocate Professor BiljanaVankovska, PhD, at her request. Ambassador...
Artists and Academics to Help Reconciliation in Region
Bosnian and regional academics and artists have met in Sarajevo on Friday to discuss their role in the regional reconciliation following the 1990s wars. Dino Mustafic, a Bosnian director, told BIRN it is time to create a “peace platform” in the region and honour each and every war victim. ...
Kandić: Victims must have their human image restored
The Hague Tribunal’s recent acquittals of KLA wartime commander Ramush Haradinaj and Croatian generals Mladen Mrkač and Ante Gotovina have put the issue of responsibility towards the victims of the Yugoslav wars back on the agenda. Also being tested is the ability of the relevant states...
Macedonian President Meets REKOM Team
REKOM advocates from Macedonia, Biljana Vankovska, from Bosnia, Zdravko Grebo, and from Serbia, Natasa Kandic met with Ivanov on Sunday. “Every initiative that seeks to determine the faith of the missing, thus paying honors to the victims, is important for the victims, their families and for...
BIRN: Religious groups should support RECOM, experts say
Religious institutions in the former Yugoslav countries should support RECOM initiative to establish the regional truth commission, a round table concluded. Speaking at the round table “Religion and Reconciliation”, which was held in Belgrade this week, experts and representatives of the...
