{"id":144280,"date":"2017-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/newRecom\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T04:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T03:03:36","slug":"campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

RECOM Memo<\/strong><\/p>\n

In May 2017, in the course of just a few days, 50,000 citizens of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Pristina, Zagreb, Belgrade, Nis, Presevo, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Subotica and Novi Pazar signed the petition calling on the leaders of post-Yugoslav states to conclude an official agreement to establish RECOM as part of the Berlin Process.\u00a0 The aim of the campaign* was to inform the public about the obligations of states and political leaders in the region undertaken in the official declarations signed at the Summit of Western Balkan Leaders in Berlin (2014), Vienna (2015) and Paris (2015), calling for \u201cconcrete steps to be taken by Western Balkan leaders towards lasting reconciliation in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The citizens of Pristina<\/strong> have decisively backed a regional approach to truth-telling, rather than a national one as in the proposed Commission for Truth and Reconciliation in Kosovo.\u00a0 The procedure for the establishment of a Kosovo commission was set in motion by the President of Kosovo, Hashim Ta\u00e7i.<\/p>\n

The citizens of Banja Luka <\/strong>have chosen to disregard the appeals of certain local associations (all of them funded by the RS Government) not to sign \u201ca petition aimed against the Serbs\u201d, and to place their trust in RECOM instead.<\/p>\n

The support of the citizens of Sarajevo <\/strong>for the establishment of RECOM was never in question. Their motive has always been \u201cto know the name of each victim, and have their voices heard throughout the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the height of the election campaign in Croatia, the support of the citizens of Zagreb <\/strong>for RECOM has clearly demonstrated their view that Croatia, being an EU member, has a political and historic obligation to participate in the public acknowledgment of all the victims of the wars following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n

The campaign also marked the first time the citizens of Presevo <\/strong>in Southern Serbia were able to participate in a regional, victim-centered process.\u00a0 They too regard a regional approach to be the most credible guarantee of public acknowledgement of all victims (\u2018ours\u2019 and <\/em>\u2018theirs\u2019).<\/p>\n

In Serbian towns and cities – Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Subotica and Nis<\/strong> – the signature campaign reaffirmed strong grassroots support for RECOM.\u00a0 For ordinary Serbian citizens, the establishment of RECOM is understood as an obligation of the state and its current leadership.<\/p>\n

Facts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The RECOM Coalition brings together more than two thousand civil society organizations and individual members \u2013 artists, academics, writers, lawyers and journalists, among others, from all post-Yugoslav countries. Between 2007 and 2011, the Coalition conducted a consultations process which engaged some 8,000 individuals from different sections of civil society around the idea of facing the past regionally.\u00a0 These debates gave birth to the Draft RECOM Statute Proposal, outlining the goals, tasks and basic activities of a future inter-state commission. In May of 2011, the Coalition organized a four-day signature collection campaign for RECOM, in the course of which 550,000 citizens from all post-Yugoslav countries signed the petition for the establishment of RECOM.\u00a0 In May 2013, the region\u2019s Presidents\/B&H Presidency Members appointed their personal envoys for RECOM.\u00a0 The envoys analyzed and deliberated on the Draft Statute Proposal for eighteen months, before submitting to the Coalition their Amendments to the RECOM Statute<\/em><\/strong>, on October 28th<\/sup>, 2014.\u00a0 At its assembly held on November 14, 2014, the Coalition adopted the document in its entirety without any objections, and expressed the view that \u201call the formal conditions for the establishment of such an inter-state commission have been met\u201d.<\/p>\n

In order to help the future commission carry out its mandate to document all wartime detention sites and create a registry of all civilians and combatants who lost their lives or disappeared in connection with the war (as foreseen by the Statue), the Coalition had, by December 31st<\/sup>, 2016, taken more than 17,000 statements from witnesses and victims\u2019 relatives, andgathered some 12,000 victims\u2019 photographs and more than 30,000 documents relating to the context and circumstances of their death or disappearance.\u00a0 Drawing on these sources, to date the Coalition has been able to establish the identities of 23,000 war victims (out of a total of 130,000, both civilians and combatants) and the circumstances in which they lost their lives or disappeared in connection with the wars following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 until 2001.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2016, the Coalition had documented 630 detention sites and prison camps in B&H (out of \u00a0a total of around 1,500 known sites), where more than 170,000 people were imprisoned during the war.\u00a0 More than half of those detained at these sites were civilians.<\/p>\n

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia itself has established the identities and circumstances of deathof at least 18,000 victims of war crimes.<\/p>\n

In their conversations with the campaign activists, many people expressed a commonly shared view that the time has come for the states in the region, through their support for RECOM, to complete the remaining work on establishing the identity of each of the 130,000 victims of the war and the circumstances of their death or disappearance.<\/p>\n

Citizens of post- Yugoslav states expect from their leaders to express support for including the initiative of establishing \u201cRECOM – <\/strong>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 1991-2001\u201c <\/strong>in the agenda of the upcoming Western Balkans Summit in Trieste on July 12, 2017 and to take concrete steps for reaching the official agreement for establishing the \u201cCommission\u201d at the next Summit planned in year 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coalition for RECOM\u00a0 June 9th<\/sup>, 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/em><\/strong>The street campaign was supported by Rockefeller Brothers Fund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RECOM Memo In May 2017, in the course of just a few days, 50,000 citizens of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Pristina,… ","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":143301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[1726,1698],"class_list":["post-144280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign-news","tag-berlin-process","tag-recom-campaigns"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCampaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RECOM Memo In May 2017, in the course of just a few days, 50,000 citizens of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Pristina,...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZaREKOM.PerKOMRA.ForRECOM\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-08T23:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-02T03:03:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mihajlo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@REKOM_KOMRA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@REKOM_KOMRA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mihajlo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/\",\"name\":\"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-08T23:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-02T03:03:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c0862c436fe4eedec04aac0a2fb07530\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Sarajevo, 14.05.2017.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/\",\"name\":\"REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c0862c436fe4eedec04aac0a2fb07530\",\"name\":\"mihajlo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdf797cd3492e4836264e464108a55ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdf797cd3492e4836264e464108a55ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mihajlo\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/author\/mihajlo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM","og_description":"RECOM Memo In May 2017, in the course of just a few days, 50,000 citizens of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Pristina,...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/","og_site_name":"REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZaREKOM.PerKOMRA.ForRECOM\/","article_published_time":"2017-06-08T23:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-02T03:03:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"mihajlo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@REKOM_KOMRA","twitter_site":"@REKOM_KOMRA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mihajlo","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/","url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/","name":"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process - REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg","datePublished":"2017-06-08T23:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-02T03:03:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c0862c436fe4eedec04aac0a2fb07530"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sarajevo-17-1.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"Sarajevo, 14.05.2017."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/campaign-establishment-recom-auspices-berlin-process\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Campaign for the establishment of RECOM under the auspices of the Berlin Process"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/","name":"REKOM ~ KOMRA ~ RECOM","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c0862c436fe4eedec04aac0a2fb07530","name":"mihajlo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdf797cd3492e4836264e464108a55ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdf797cd3492e4836264e464108a55ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mihajlo"},"url":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/author\/mihajlo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166045,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144280\/revisions\/166045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}