Chronicler of Yugoslav War Crime Trials Mirko Klarin Dies
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Mirko Klarin. Foto: N1
Croatian-born Mirko Klarin, who founded SENSE news agency in 1998 with the aim of comprehensively covering the trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, died on Thursday.
SENSE Agency was one of the few media outlets that regularly covered all the war crimes proceedings in The Hague.
The Association of Genocide Victims and Witnesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Klarin will be remembered as a journalist with an unparalleled sense of justice.
“Mirko will remain in our memory as a fighter for truth and justice,” the association said in a statement.
The head of the association, Murat Tahirovic, added that through SENSE, Klarin compiled an invaluable archive of cases and witnesses of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
“He is one of those people who we shall remember and who, in a certain way, will guide us on how not to give up on our own goals,” Tahirovic said.
Emir Suljagic, director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, also mourned Klarin’s passing.
“Mirko Klarin was a rare man. And we all owe him something,” Suljagic wrote on Twitter.
Klarin was born in Trogir, Croatia, graduated from the Faculty of Law at Belgrade University, and had been involved in journalism since 1966.
