Report on Impunity Watch Panel Discussion

Transitional justice: are we ticking the boxes when we should be joining the dots?

Café Dudok, The Hague, 15 December 2009

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Report on Impunity Watch Expert Debate

1 July 2009, Amsterdam: Remembering the Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: Do war memorials unite or divide?
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Dealing with Impunity in Serbia - Options and Obstacles

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Serbia, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed by the Serbian state and citizens during the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution during the 1990s.
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Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Guatemala, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed during its long civil war.
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The Persistence of Truth

This report looks at progress in truth-seeking and the combat of impunity in Guatemala ten years after its UN-backed truth comission, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), published its findings on the events of the internal armed confrontation of 1960-96.
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Impunity Watch Research Instrument

This Impunity Watch tool offers a basic framework for researching the state of accountability in post-conflict societies.
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NEWS ARCHIVE

Impunity Watch supports Srebrenica victims' initiative for European memorial day

15/10/2008 - Impunity Watch supports the initiative of relatives of the victims of the Srebenica genocide and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to have the European Union proclaim July 11 «European Memorial Day for the Srebrenica Genocide».

This initiative was presented today in Brussels to the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering.

On July 11 1995, Serbian forces killed over 7,000 Bosniak men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. In his message on the 10th anniversary of the massacre, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called it “the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War”.

“Throughout the world this date is marked as a grim reminder of man's inhumanity to man,” he said.

The massacre has been judged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, and International Court of Justice, ICJ, as an act of genocide, while Serbia has been found guilty of violating the Genocide Convention by failing to prevent and punish it.

According to the ICTY, Serbia has yet to fully cooperate with the court by handing over a number of indictees for trial, including Ratko Mladic, the head of the Bosnian Serb army during the 1990s who is one of those accused of masterminding and carrying out the Srebrenica massacre. His co-accused, former political leader of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic, is currently on trial in The Hague after evading arrest for over 13 years. A number of further individuals have already been prosecuted in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian courts, as well as at the ICTY, in relation to the Srebrenica massacre.

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