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Elias: It is important that there is no impunity for war criminals

FENA Vernera Jakupović

SREBRENICA/POTOČARI, July 11 (FENA) - The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts (MICT), which continues the activities of the ICTY, will try to establish all the facts so that there would be no impunity for the perpetrators of the crime, said Secretary of the MICT Olufemi Elias today in Potočari during the marking of the anniversary of the genocide in July 1995 in Srebrenica.

Addressing the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the first time, Elias said that one of the most important tasks of the residual mechanism is to preserve the archives of the Hague Tribunal with thousands of various pieces of evidence of crimes committed in order to establish the truth about what had happened.

With the evidence collected by The Hague Tribunal, the residual mechanism, in an effort to hold accountable those who committed the crimes, will assist the courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the region, in their conduct of the proceedings.

It is important that these processes be completed, while respecting the highest standards, and the International Residual Mechanism, whose task is to determine the facts about the committed genocide, is determined in its intent, the secretary said.

“The families of the victims unfortunately cannot erase what had happened in Srebrenica, but it is important to them that all the facts regarding those horrific events be precisely determined.

It is important that the perpetrators be punished, for the pages of history to have the recorded facts about who they were exactly,” said Elias, and added that "we remain humbled before the victims."

(FENA) S. R.

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