Recognition of sexual violence victim status applies to 80

Some 80 people have applied on the government's commission to verify the status of persons violated during the war within a month.

According to the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (QKRMT), since the period when this process has officially started, the number of new cases has marked increases for about 30 new cases.

The director of this centre, Feride Rushiti, considering this process to be very sensitive, made it all go well.

According to Rushiti so far to the government commission for accepting and verifying the status of victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo, some 80 cases have been reached.

It also stated that the number within this month could reach up to 100 cases that have applied to recognise the status of victims of rape during the last war.

The “is a dynamic process and so far with the figures that are being discussed that have reached the Commission about 60-80 cases this week, then the entire cases are collected by Friday that this number can go near 100 and more“, Rushiti said.

Kosovo's Rushis has stressed that female gender continues to dominate as victims of sexual violence during the war, but as she says there are men.

Unfortunately, the war has not spared women, nor girls, nor men nor boys, and of course there have been in war beyond the women and girls who have been more of a target arena and it's been more like hate in relation to men who are touching family honors, and many times the violation has occurred in the presence of family, children... there have been men who have been preyed to the victim I've mostly been in cases that have been in these detention centers, like police stations or detention stations or collective stations, so their numbers are even more obvious than the number of women and girls who are looking for them, he said.

According to Rushiti's expectations by the end of 2018 for recognising and verifying the status of persons violated during the last war will apply between 1000 and 1200 people.

In addition to the cases that have been known earlier, the director of the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (QKRMT) has indicated that 20 to 30 new cases have been presented.

And we have, in our organization, repeatedly, physical ones that are represented through the e - form or over the telephone that they write to us, I can say that the number is 20 to 30, and today we have two new cases, that is, it continues to grow and has interest. Above all, we need to understand that it is a very difficult process for this sensitive group is a social wound without treatment over the years, and it is not easy for those who make the decision to apply especially those persons to women and men who for years have sustained this war plague”, she said.

The entire process of verifying the status of raped persons during the war is expected to last five years, but Feride Rushti does not rule out the possibility of an additional deadline.

The last <x0 years if there are too many apps and the Commission is going to be loaded and there's no way to consider them is the legal possibility that the applications that come in five years over that is the last year and the big number and can't be considered and that an additional deadline for reviewing the apps in those righteous ones, but we hope that over these five years beyond which must be worked directly with the paper completed and prepared for all documentation and given in the process even with veto campaigns at the national level of <x>

In addition to the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors(QKRMT), authorised for planning the application forms of victims of sexual violence are “Medika Kosova”, “Medika Gjakova” and “Centre for Promoting Women's Rights Promoting”, headquartered in Drenas, but the forms can also be delivered directly to the Commission Secretariat or even to trained officials and authorised at one of the department's respective offices for the victims' families and the disabled.

Besides, the form, the person applying for recognition of status as the victim of sexual violence during the war should also have a medical, psychological, testimony of any witness if there are any, photographs, etc.

By February 5th, the application for recognition and verification of the status of victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo has started, and the whole process is expected to last five years.

While last November, the government has made a decision that monthly payment for the victims of Sex Violence during the war is 230 euros.

State institutions still don't have exact figures of victims of violations during the war, but since the post-war war, the figure of 20,000 people violated has been mentioned.