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221. An example of such an individual is Muharem Murselović, an Omarska survivor who has
testified in several ICTY cases and has worked tirelessly to encourage Muslims to return to his
hometown of Prijedor. See Chapter IV.G.
222. Commission of the European Communities, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009 Progress Report
(Oct. 14, 2009), at 20, www.delbih.ec.europa.eu/docs/ProgressReport20092.pdf.
223. As the a UN report explains, the right to know what happened, the right to justice, and the
right to reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence are fundamental principles which need to
be provided to victims in order to combat impunity. See e.g., Report of the independent expert to
update the Set of principles to combat impunity, Diane Orentlicher, Impunity, Addendum, Updated
Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity,
UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1, Feb. 8, 2005. The rights and principles encompass a broad
range of needs that victims require.
IV. Achievements, Failures, and Performance
224. Interview with Nidžara Ahmetašević, editor, BIRN, Sarajevo, July 13, 2009.
225. Interview with Gojko Berić, journalist and columnist of Oslobod¯enje, Sarajevo, July 17, 2009.
226. Interview with Džafer Deronjić, Association of the Families of Missing, Forcibly Detained
and Murdered Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brčko, July 22, 2009.
227. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 29, 2006.
228. Interview with Fadil Budnjo, president, Association of Families of Killed and Missing from
Foča and Kalinovik, Ilidža, July 24, 2009.
229. Interviews with Sead Golić, Association of the Families of Missing, Forcibly Detained and
Murdered Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brčko, July 22, 2009; Mirsad Tokača, president,
Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Dec. 6, 2006.
230. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 29, 2006. At the time of this interview, two men whom Bosnians most associate with wartime
atrocities, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, were still at large more than eleven years after they
were first indicted.
231. Interview with Vehid Šehić, president, Citizens Forum of Tuzla, Tuzla, July 15, 2009. Šehić
noted that “very few” of the ICTY’s verdicts “fulfilled justice 100 percent simply because of the point
that a court is limited by the procedures and facts it can use to reach a final decision.” Id.
232. Interview with Mirsad Tokača, president, Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo,
Sarajevo, Dec. 6, 2006.
233. Interview with Fadil Budnjo, president, Association of Families of Killed and Missing from
Foča and Kalinovik, Ilidža, July 24, 2009. As noted earlier, the range captured here may be partly
a function of the nature of our interlocutors’ experiences during the war. See Chapter III, note 130
(noting that a study based on qualitative interviews of Bosnians found that victims who had survived
internment, lost close relatives, been internally displaced, been injured in a landmine explosion
and/or been subjected to sexual violence tended to have the highest expectations of the ICTY at the
outset, resulting in deeper disappointments later): Janine Natalya Clark, The Limits of Retributive
Justice; Findings of an Empirical Study in Bosnia and Hercegovina, 7 J. Int’l Crim. J. 463, 467 (2009).
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