波斯尼亚塞族前领导人比利亚娜·普拉夫希奇在向前南斯拉夫问题国际刑事法庭认罪时，从自己的经历出发发言警告说，如果领导人有赖于煽动恐惧和偏见，从而成为施害者，就会带来“坟墓、难民、孤立和对整个世界的怨恨”。我们必须再次承诺在武装冲突期间保护平民的福祉，并追究不加保护者的责任。余留机制一直是这项工作的重要组成部分，我们继续支持它为受害者所做的努力。
In her guilty plea to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić spoke from her own experience, warning that where leaders rely on stoking fear and prejudice, thereby become victimizers, the result is “graves, refugees, isolation and bitterness against the whole world”. We must recommit to protecting the welfare of civilians during armed conflict and holding those who do not to account. The Mechanism has been an important part of this work, and we continue to support its efforts on behalf of victims.