The OSCE has taken the lead in planning to rebuild civil society after hostilities cease, and has done excellent work. All of us need to work with them on these issues now, so that we can be better prepared. In Macedonia, a representative of a human rights NGO asked the head of the Tribunal's team there why they should cooperate to bring these crimes to light. The Tribunal investigator replied that neither the Tribunal nor any other organization had been faced with the prospect of hundreds of thousands of potential witnesses expelled from a country all at once. This is an extraordinary moment that requires unprecedented focus and cooperation.
Extraordinary circumstances demand an extraordinary response.
In closing, I urge you and your organizations to give support to this comprehensive approach to documenting human rights violations. If your organization has operations in the region, I urge you to adopt the common form for reporting human rights violations. This way, we can work together to build a statistical base that can move beyond anecdotal accounts and comprehensively document the full contours of a plan of ethnic cleansing directed at all the citizens of Kosovo. We owe it to ourselves to work together to get the story out, but most of all, we owe it to the victims of this twisted policy. I invite you to work together with us, now, to encourage action, to document the truth, to further accountability and the search for the missing, to aid the victims and their families, and to reverse the human rights abuses that are still going on as we speak.