Memorandum of Understanding between the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the city of Sarajevo, on the basis of which will be established Information Centre of the ICTY in Sarajevo, was presented yesterday in the Sarajevo City Hall.
Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Fausto Pocar, said to reporters that it is important that after twenty years of work on the collection of various materials, these materials will be available now to the general public, and not only to researchers and historians.
According to him, it is important that these materials now, in the Information Center, will be available to the population that was directly affected by the war “and that through all this material will be possible to see not only concrete, final judgment, but also memories and testimonies of people who talked about the truth, about what actually happened.”
He stated that it is important for this center to have adequate staff that will be able to help people in such complex studies to obtain information and facts.
A spokesman for the ICTY, Nenad Golcevski, said that the users of this first information center that will be established in Sarajevo will have access to more than 400,000 documents in the court proceedings before the Tribunal. Around 100,000 of them are evidence material.
Mayor of Sarajevo Ivo Komsic said that for the city of Sarajevo and for this country, archives of the Hague Tribunal is very important, and “I would even say crucial.”
“It is crucial for dealing with the past, because without dealing with the past we cannot build peace and stability and we cannot build our future,” said Komsic.
“As important as it is it for us mothers, it is even more important for our children, to learn something from the past in order to have a better and happier future,” said Munira Subasic, the President of Association “Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa”.
(Source: klix.ba)
