"War crimes trials in the states on the territory of former Yugoslavia are a positive development. Such trials have been conducted more professionally when regional cooperation is available, when human rights organisations help with supplying documents and victims/witnesses, and when the victims are represented by human rights defenders. These factors have been instrumental in making the war crimes trials in Serbia professional and accepted by victims. Post-conflict societies on the territory of former Yugoslavia are facing the challenge of securing justice for victims and remembering a common past. Whether this is achievable through national bodies for establishing facts of the past, or whether some regional truth-telling body might be a better solution, remains an open question."