The Humanitarian Law Centre has opened a war crimes documentation centre in Pristina with information from five Kosovo-related trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

The Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo said it opened the new documentation centre in Pristina so people can become better informed about crimes committed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo.

RECOM - regional commission for the establishment of facts about war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia – presented today in Pristina findings of a research into human losses suffered in conflicts throughout the territory of former Yugoslavia. RECOM said that over 130,000 people lost their lives in conflicts that began in 1991 and out of this figure over 13,000 are from Kosovo. “From January 1998 to 2000, 13,535 people have been killed or are missing in Kosovo,” said Bekim Balaj from the Humanitarian Law Centre.