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Connference
International Conference on Secret Police Files Belgrade
Hotel Intercontinental, February
21-23, 2002
Organisers: Centre for Anti-War Action and RTV B92
Conference sponsored by: Fund for an Open Society
and German Government
At the International Conference on the Opening of
Secret Police Files, held in Belgrade between February
21 and 23, 2002, the following were adopted:
CONCLUSIONS
1. It is necessary with urgency, fairness, expertise,
and observance of the law and personal human rights,
to begin the opening of secret police files compiled
on citizens since May 13, 1944.
2. It is necessary to completely disclose the contents
of all secret police files compiled on citizens by
all security services for political and ideological
reasons, at both the federal level and the level of
the republics. It is in the public interest to undertake
an expert and scientific study on the basis and methodology
of the system of introduction and compiling the secret
police files.
3. Because the future operations of security services
must be regulated by law, secret police files must
not be compiled for political and ideological reasons,
but only in cases prescribed in detail by the law,
according to precisely determined procedures and with
the appropriate mechanisms for control.
4. With respect to the statement by Serbian Interior
Minister Dusan Mihajlovic, given at this conference
on February 22, 2002, that he would support the adoption
of legislation on the opening of secret police files
based on the existing NGO draft, the legislation drafted
jointly by the CAA and the CUPS is being submitted
to the minister for further action.
5. The draft legislation on the opening of secret
police files compiled by the security services at
the federal level, prepared by the CAA and CUPS, is
being sent to the Federal Government and the Federal
Parliament for discussion and adoption.
6. It is necessary to adopt legislation on lustration
applying to employees and associates of the security
services and senior state and party officials of the
Milosevic regime who were responsible for violations
of the human rights of citizens. These would be barred
from holding certain posts for a certain period of
time.
7. It is necessary to generally and completely rehabilitate
victims of political trials since May 13, 1944 until
the adoption of the law on rehabilitation. Priority
must be given to cases in which police and court repression
had lethal consequences.
8. The recommendations from the "In Search of Truth
and Responsibility: Towards a Democratic Future" conference
held in Belgrade from May 18 to 20, 2001, have not
met with the expected response. Thus the Commission
for Truth and Reconciliation, the Federal Parliament
and Government, the Serbian Government and Parliament
and the Yugoslav president are asked to take these
recommendations into consideration.
RTV B92 Centre for Anti-War Action
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