REKOM signatures campaign announced

A regional campaign to establish of REKOM starts today and will last six weeks, Director of the Humanitarian Law Center Nataša Kandić has announced.

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Tuesday, 26.04.2011.

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A regional campaign to establish of REKOM starts today and will last six weeks, Director of the Humanitarian Law Center Natasa Kandic has announced. REKOM stands for the 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 to 2001. REKOM signatures campaign announced It is a symbolic activity, regional in character, which aims to collect a million signatures and send a message that the young people are not responsible for the heavy legacy of war crimes that have been committed, but that they have the right and obligation to seek answers, Kandic told B92. The signatures and the REKOM draft statute, which was adopted March 26, will be delivered to all the parliaments in the region, which will be asked to form the commission, said Kandic. "We have organized ourselves in such a way as to expect procrastination as a characteristic of political life and of the behaviour of the political elite. We will push every day to get the ultimate agreement to form the regional commission," she noted. The signature collection was started in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Banja Luka, Pristina, Skopje and Podgorica simultaneously at 11:55. Over 500 volunteers are going to take part in it. The campaign will be coordinated by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. It will cover all of the countries of the former Yugoslavia and last until June 6. The reason for the campaign, according to the organizers, is that ten years after the end of the armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the list of the killed in the war has not yet been completed in any of the successor states and more than 15,000 persons are still registered as missing.

REKOM signatures campaign announced

It is a symbolic activity, regional in character, which aims to collect a million signatures and send a message that the young people are not responsible for the heavy legacy of war crimes that have been committed, but that they have the right and obligation to seek answers, Kandić told B92.

The signatures and the REKOM draft statute, which was adopted March 26, will be delivered to all the parliaments in the region, which will be asked to form the commission, said Kandić.

"We have organized ourselves in such a way as to expect procrastination as a characteristic of political life and of the behaviour of the political elite. We will push every day to get the ultimate agreement to form the regional commission," she noted.

The signature collection was started in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Banja Luka, Priština, Skopje and Podgorica simultaneously at 11:55. Over 500 volunteers are going to take part in it.

The campaign will be coordinated by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. It will cover all of the countries of the former Yugoslavia and last until June 6. The reason for the campaign, according to the organizers, is that ten years after the end of the armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the list of the killed in the war has not yet been completed in any of the successor states and more than 15,000 persons are still registered as missing.

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