The Third Regional Forum for Transitional Justice, Belgrade, Serbia

The Third Regional Forum for Transitional Justice was organized by the Humanitarian Law Center (Serbia), Documenta (Croatia) and the Research and Documentation Center (B&H), and more than 300 representatives of victims’ associations (as well as unaffiliated victims), veterans’ associations, youth organizations, human rights activists, journalists, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, MPs, historians, artists, college and high school students took part. The Forum was opened by Oliver Dulić, the President of the Serbian National Assembly, and Jelko Kacin, the Special Rapporteur of the European Parliament for Serbia.

At the Third Regional Forum, the debate which, up to that point, revolved mainly around extra-judicial mechanisms,finally gained substance, and the need to establish a regional body which, in turn, would establish the facts about the recently perpetrated war crimes became part of the conversation.

It was at this Forum that the first public testimonies of victims were held.