On March 21, 2008, HLC convened a meeting of human rights NGOs, journalists, historians, the Serbian Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, a representative of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia war crime investigation unit, judges, the ICTY Liaison Officer to Serbia to discuss the future of the Hague Tribunal archive in the context of war crime trials, building historical memory, establishing the facts about the recent past and the need for the documentation of the Hague Tribunal archive to be accessible to experts and the general public....
On 13 December 2007, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD) organized in Belgrade, Serbia, a screening of the Marcel Schüpbach film: Carla's List, followed by a panel discussion in which Serbian human rights activists and journalists discussed the impact of the ICTY, and specifically the role of Carla Del Ponte as one-time Chief Prosecutor, on Serbia's attempts, or lack thereof, to deal with the past. On the same day, Carla's list was also screened in Sarajevo by Association Pravo Ljudski in cooperation with the Research and Documentation Center, in Zagreb by Documenta, and in The Hague by Stichting Movies That Matter....
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“This, in fact, was the strength of the Scorpions, all the family ties. [...] We all had family ties and were old friends from school.” – says Dusko Kosanovic, aka Owl, former memeber of the Scorpions...
Haris Pašović, Professor and Film Director, Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts, BiH: If one speaks of an instrument that would get us closer to our ideal model of resolving our historical memory problem, which is not strictly an artistic instrument or an artistic instrument at all, but a social and political one, and perhaps an anthropological instrument, for me it is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or the equivalent of this commission, as we know it from South Africa. I would also appreciate it if we, on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, had a commission, which would enable people bearing the burden of war crimes inside themselves, and those bearing the burden of victimhoood, to communicate at a broader level because these crimes are massive and the victims many, and courts will only be able to resolve this issue partially....
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