Dear Madam,

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina has on several occasions addressed the public and warned, the domestic institutions particularly, of unreasonable decision to privatise the Ljubija/Omarska Coal Mine before the investigating bodies have completed their job concerning the circumstantial evidence indicating that on the location of the coal mine there are bodily remnants of people who had been taken captive during the war.

The most recent information indicate that exploitation of the coal mine - that has been privatised in the meantime - might start soon.. We express our deep concern in regard to that. In the name of the victims who are still registered as missing, for the sake of their families and for the sake of the process of reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we appeal to you to do everything in your power, in line with your responsibilities, to prevent that the exploitation of the Ljubija Coal Mine starts before the ICTY forensic experts and investigators have visited the site.

Please find enclosed the document Genocide Sold: Bosnian „Corpse Mine“ at Ljubija, which is available on the web page of the Domovina Net – link:
http://www.domovina.net/index.php.

Sincerely yours,

President of the Helsinki Committee in BiH
Srđan Dizdarević