Mirko Klarin, publicist, journalist and founder of the Sense news agency, died at the age of 79. Klarin made a great contribution to the establishment of the Hague Tribunal, and in the UN documents on the establishment of the International Tribunal for War Crimes Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, Mirko Klarin is mentioned as the central creator of that institution. 

For years, he reported for his ‘Sense’ agency about the wars which he wanted to avoid from the courthouse in The Hague.

“Mirko Klarin will be remembered as a journalist with an inviolable sense of justice. On behalf of the victims from Bosnia and Herzegovina, we offer our condolences to the family. Mirko will remain in our memories as a fighter for truth and justice,” said Murat Tahirović, the head of the Association of Genocide Witnesses and Victims.

Klarin was born on October 30, 1943. in Trogir, Croatia.