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Mutual recognition key to overcoming Yugoslav Wars

By Yuriy Vilner

Ian Bancroft [Co-founder & Executive Director, TransConflict]: "What was truly significant about the recent events in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar was the willingness of both presidents - Serbia's Boris Tadic and Croatia's Ivo Josipovic - to apologize for crimes committed by the military forces of their respective countries; Tadic for the massacre of 260 Croats in 1991, Josipovic for the killing of 18 Serbs in the village of Paulin Dvor later that same year. Mutual recognition is a key, yet contentious element of the process of reconciliation. It does not imply the equalisation of the severity of the crimes committed, nor does it in any way serve to

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).