The Start of a Regional Debate on Extra-Judicial Truth-Seeking and Truth-Telling Mechanisms for the Establishment and Public Disclosure of Facts about War Crimes

The HLC, Documenta (a Croatian NGO) and the Research and Documentation Center (RDC-B&H) initiated a debate on the mechanisms for the establishment and public disclosure of the facts about the war crimes perpetrated in the recent past, and a meeting was organized, involving 10 of the most prominent human rights NGOs from post-Yugoslav states. Also taking part in the meeting were experts from the International Center for Transitional Justice. The participants gave their full support for war crimes trials. Bearing in mind that criminal trials tended to be focused on the perpetrators, the HLC, Documenta and the RDC decided to start a victim-centric regional debate on extra-judicial mechanisms for the establishment and public disclosure of facts about war crimes and other gross human rights violations.