We support the foundation of a State Commission tasked with finding and marking all secret graves created after 1944, and we demand that the government of the Republic of Serbia establish another commission tasked with disclosing the remaining mass graves in Serbia, created during the time of the armed conflicts waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and also tasked with investigating allegations that bodies of Kosovo Albanian victims were incinerated in the Mačkatica factory, in the Obilić thermal-electric power plant, in Niš and Smederevo during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).
In addition to this, we remind the public that the Republic of Serbia has a moral obligation to secure financing for the exhumation of mass graves in Košare and in Belaćevac, thus demonstrating its compassion for and solidarity with the families of missing Serbs who have been searching for their loved ones for 10 years.
Following the fall of Slobodan Milošević, several mass graves have been discovered in Serbia: in the police training camps in Batajnica and Petrovo Selo, and in a location near Lake Perućac, in which approximately 850 bodies of Kosovo Albanians were transferred from Kosovo during the NATO bombardment. It is a known fact, confirmed by the retired MUP Serbia inspector Dragan Karleuša in his testimony in the trial of members of the Special Police Units (SAJ) who were tried for war crimes committed against Kosovo Albanians in the Suva Reka Case, that the bodies of Kosovo Albanians were drowned in Lake Perućac in an attempt to cover up the crime.
Humanitarian Law Center
Youth Initiative for Human Rights
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
Belgrade Center for Human Rights
Civic Initiative
Women in Black
YUCOM – Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights
Impunity Watch
Civic Action Pančevo
Center for the development of civil resources
Vojvođanka – Regional Women’s Initiative
The Center for Regionalism
Center for Democracy and Development of South Serbia
Human Rights Committee Leskovac
Local Democracy Center Niš – LDA
