The Shame of Serbia

ny times
 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
By NATASHA KANDIC

Published: June 5, 2011

Belgrade, Serbia
THE arrest of Ratko Mladic on May 26 caught me off guard. I couldn’t believe it. I clenched my fists, trying to grip him tightly in my hands. Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief.
But then I heard the speech by the Serbian president, Boris Tadic. For him, Mr. Mladic’s arrest represents the closing of a dark chapter in our history and a removal of the mark of shame that has stained the Serbian people for two decades. But there was no mention of the many other perpetrators of genocide during the 1990s or of the responsibility the Serbian state bears for those crimes. Once again, it seems, we might lose the chance to open a painful but necessary debate about the past....more....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/opinion/06Kandic.html?ref=serbia

Is RECOM collapsing?

se times
02/07/2011

RECOM leader Natasa Kandic says she will stay the course on war crimes amid claims of corruption and misuse of funds.
By Ljiljana Kovacevic for Southeast European Times in Banja Luka -- 02/07/11
Bosnian media reports that Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) Director Natasa Kandic resigned from RECOM after spending 2.5m euros without being accountable to donors, has caused a stir....more...

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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/07/02/feature-02

Kandic Resigns From War Crimes Board

balkan insight
28 JUN 2011 / 19:39

Leading humanitarian lawyer Natasa Kandic has resigned from the coordinating council of a regional organisation, set up to document war crimes, that she helped to set up.

Gordana Andric Belgrade
The director of the Humanitarian Law Centre and one of the founders and leaders of a coalition of NGOs, the Coalition for RECOM, Natasa Kandic, officially resigned as a member of RECOM’s Coordinating Council on Monday....more....
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/natasa-kandic-resigns-recom-s-coordinating-council

Balkan Leaders Given Truth and Reconciliation Petition

balkan insight
24 JUN 2011 / 09:12

The coalition of NGOs known as RECOM has started handing a petition to ex-Yugoslav leaders containing half a million signatures, demanding the establishment of a regional truth and reconciliation commission.

Bojana Barlovac Belgrade
RECOM representatives said they had handed over their petition seeking a regional truth commission to Croatia's President, Ivo Josipovic, and Slovenia's State Secretary, Jozef Skolc....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/recom-hands-over-petition-to-balkan-top-officials

RECOM initiative aims at confronting region's past

se times
16/05/2011

A new panel would focus squarely on the victims in documenting an "approximation of the truth".
By Marina Stojanovska for Southeast European Times in Skopje – 16/05/11
A campaign dubbed "One million signatures for RECOM" is under way in cities across the region -- Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Ljubljana, Pristina, Skopje and Podgorica. ...more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2011/05/16/reportage-01

Cross-regional initiative gains new momentum

se times
03/05/2011

RECOM could have a decisive role in bringing the truth about war crimes to light, supporters say.
By Dusan Kosanovic and Mirjana Boskovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade and Podgorica -- 03/05/11
The "One Million Signatures for RECOM" campaign seeks to establish an independent regional commission, a non-judicial panel that would investigate and establish facts concerning war crimes and their victims between 1991 and 2001. ...more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/05/03/feature-02

Montenegro's PM Endorses Fact-Finding Initiative RECOM

balkan insight
29 Apr 2011 / 10:53

Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Luksic has voiced his support for a fact-finding commission on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, dubbed RECOM.
Government of Montenegro

The Montenegrin prime minister signed the petition put forward by a coalition of NGOs demanding the prompt establishment of a regional commission tasked with determining the facts about the victims of the Balkan wars of the 1990s....more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-s-pm-endorses-fact-finding-initiative-recom

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REKOM signatures campaign announced

b92.net
Society

Tuesday 26.04.2011
13:26
Source: B92, Tanjug

BELGRADE -- A regional campaign to establish of REKOM starts today and will last six weeks, Director of the Humanitarian Law Center Nataša Kandić has announced.
REKOM stands for the Regional Commission Tasked with Establishing the Facts about All Victims of War Crimes and Other Serious Human Rights Violations Committed on the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia in the period from 1991 to 2001....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=04&dd=26&nav_id=74008

RECOM Ups Pressure on Balkan States to Confront Past

balkan insight
27 Apr 2011 / 09:01

Actions staged in all ex-Yugoslav capitals, as part of drive to get states to agree by June to set up regional truth and reconciliation commission.
Bojana Barlovac

Belgrade ...more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/rekom-readies-to-push-balkan-officials-deal-with-past

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REKOM Initiative Collects Signatures Across Balkans

balkan insight
26 Apr 2011 / 15:30

A coalition of NGOs in the Balkans on Tuesday launched a petition in support of a regional commission, dubbed REKOM, tasked with establishing the facts about the victims of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Gordana Andric, Eldin Hadzovic

Belgrade, Sarajevo
In the quest for one million signatures in support of the initiative, NGOs began gathering names on Tuesday at noon in capital cities throughout the former Yugoslavia....more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/million-signatures-for-the-victims-of-balkan-wars

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