The Second Regional Forum for Transitional Justice, Zagreb, Croatia

The Second Regional Forum on establishing the truth about the recent war crimes and conflicts was organized by Documenta, the Humanitarian Law Center and the Research and Documentation Center. For the very first time, more than 300 participants from all the post-Yugoslav states – including representatives of various human rights NGOs, associations of victims and families of the missing, veterans’ associations, the Hague Tribunal, the International Center for Transitional Justice, along with numerous judges, prosecutors, artists and journalists – took part in the debate about the instruments needed to establish the truth about the past. The Forum was opened by the Croatian President Stjepan Mesić, who expressed his strong support for the establishment of facts on a regional level.