“The failure to fully deal with wartime atrocities and the root causes of conflicts in the 1990s continues to have devastating consequences on respect for human rights, the rule of law and social cohesion in the region”, said Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on the release of her “Issue Paper” on the state of play of transitional justice efforts in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
As a reminder, transitional justice – a concept related to...