TO ESTABLISH THE FACTS RELATED TO ALL VICTIMS OF THE WARS WAGED IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, 1991-2001.
Every day more and more organizations and individuals are joining the Initiative for the creation of a regional commission tasked with establishing and publishing the facts related to the victims of the wars waged in the period 1991-2001 on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Today, the Coalition is made up of over 400 organizations and more than 300 individuals. We have joined together in an effort to help the governments in the region overcome the existing disputes and create a regional, official, and credible body.
The Commission will consist of eminent individuals well respected in their communities and across the region, representatives of various ethnic groups and religions, nominated and elected based on a set of previously established rules. We cannot think of a well-intentioned individual who would consider such a goal unacceptable or unwanted.
The fact of the matter is that until this is accomplished everyone will be able to use the number of victims at will, exaggerating their own while diminishing the losses of other sides. This serves the limited interests of certain individuals while hurting everybody else. Our life would be much better if the societies in which we live did not trip over our unexplored and undisclosed past.
Please join us. For your own sake. So that everybody knows. Lest we forget. So it doesn’t happen again. To move on. To live better.
