YIHR: UN committee calls Belgrade to condemn war crimes denial

The YIHR press release said the CED called the Serbian authorities to sanction the glorification of war criminals and implement the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Srebrenica genocide. According to YIHR, the UN CED published a report on Serbia early in April whose recommendations were included several made by YIHR to CED in March this year.

“The CED called Serbia to include enforced disappearance in its national legislature as a separate crime without a statute of limitations and called for changes in the law on the rights of combatants, military and civilian war-time invalids and their families to recognize the status of victim for all victims of armed conflicts without discrimination,” the press release said. The CED also appealed for the introduction of a law on the rights of missing persons and their families and make sure that civil society organizations and organizations rallying victims’ families in discussing the draft law.

YIHR said the CED recommended cooperation between Belgrade and Pristina to resolve the problems preventing the implementation of the Declaration on Missing Persons of May 2023.