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.

“Even though we always hear people saying that they know what happened during the war, if you ask for more details, only few of them know the exact data,” Bekim Blakaj, the executive director of HLC Kosovo, told BIRN.

“Nowadays the war topic is being generalised, [in phrases] such as ’20,000 raped women’, ‘thousands killed’, but nothing more than that. We can’t create a collective memory about the war based on facts in this way,” Blakaj said.

He added that apart from victims’ relatives, very few people know the exact data or facts about the war’s victims.

“We hope that through this centre, information about war victims will be memorialised in a detailed way,” he said.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-opens-a-war-crime-documentation-center-09-25-2017