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RECOMMENDATIONS

To The International Community:
This report documents extensive war crimes committed by Yugoslav forces in the Glogovac municipality and calls on the international community to support the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to investigate these atrocities. Specifically, Human Rights Watch calls on the international community to:

Facilitate and encourage the work of the ICTY and guarantee ongoing financial and political support to ensure that the ICTY can continue to conduct thorough investigations into allegations of humanitarian law violations in Kosovo;

Put the issue of compliance with the mandate of the ICTY on the top of the international agenda, and in all interactions with the Yugoslav authorities insist on full cooperation with the ICTY;

Assist the ICTY in identifying witnesses and evidence, and work closely with the ICTY in securing evidence and ensuring the protection of witnesses;

Provide the ICTY with any intelligence information obtained that relates to the commission of war crimes, including the identification of specific units engaged in operations in areas in which abuses occur, and convey relevant satellite intelligence information to the ICTY;

Ensure that all evidence relating to Slobodan Milosovic's and other political leaders' responsibility for war crimes in Kosovo, as well as in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia, is turned over to the ICTY for investigation;

Send a clear message that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide will not be tolerated by arresting those already indicted by the ICTY for atrocities committed during the wars in Bosnia and Croatia; and

Raise awareness about the mandate and work of the ICTY and the obligations created by international humanitarian law through a public education campaign in both the Serbian and Albanian languages.

To The International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia:
In addition to its ongoing efforts to investigate war crimes in the region, Human Rights Watch urges the tribunal to

Dispatch teams of investigators to the Glogovac municipality to interview victims and witnesses to atrocities documented in this report and to gather relevant physical evidence and to coordinate with other international actors currently operating in this area. In particular, we strongly urge the tribunal to seek to locate and interview the police officer identified in this report as "Lutka," both regarding his own war-time activities and regarding any information he may have about the identities of those who committed summary executions and other atrocities in the area;

Ensure that witnesses are provided with adequate protection; and

Engage in a public education campaign in the whole of the former Yugoslavia aimed at informing governments and the public about international humanitarian and human rights law obligations and ensuring that civilians are aware of the work of the ICTY and ways to contact the ICTY with relevant information.

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