The Hague Tribunal is in the final stage of negotiations on the establishment of informative centers in Sarajevo and Srebrenica that would contain the archive of this court, stated BIRN BiH.
Rada Pejić-Sremac from the Information Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said that negotiations with the Memorial Center Potočari and the City of Sarajevo are in final stage and that signing of memorandums is expected soon.
“Informative centers of ICTY are envisaged as places that enable the interested citizens and organizations direct and safe access to all public records and archive materials in online databases,” Pejić-Sremac said.
According to Pejić-Sremac, establishing of archive centers in countries of the former Yugoslavia was recommended in the report by the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), with the aim of strengthening the rule of law and building peace in the region.
Expert associate for planning of the Memorial Center Potočari Hasan Nuhanović said that the archive will be located in the Library of Genocide and that access to the entire Hague archive will be available for all interested citizens.
“End aim of the project is for the user, whether it is someone working in the Memorial Center or a visitor or journalist, a person who deals with research of genocide, to be able to sit in front of a computer and access the Tribunal’s database with the password that we give them and which we obtain from the Tribunal,” Nuhanović explained.
The Hague Tribunal was founded in May 1993. During their work, over 160 persons were tried before this court for crimes committed at the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Tribunal was the first to declare the genocide in Srebrenica and other mass crimes at the territory of BiH.
(Source: fokus.ba)
