29 minutes agoMaterial shortages from recent war in Kosovo
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kosovo's State Archives Agency has little material from the 1998-99 war. The institution has received documents only from the Kosovo Liberation Army headquarters (UÇK) in Likovc, while there are materials available there and yet it is not selected. Chief Executive of the State Archives Agency of Kosovo, Rame Manaj for Economics [...]
Chief executive of the State Agency of Kosovo Archives, Rame Manaj for Online Economics, said they lack materials from the recent war in Kosovo.
We have very little material from the last war. We only have dozens of boxes that haven't been processed yet and we'll see how many will remain, because that's gross, and we keep the net amount. These materials were taken from the former staff of The KLA in Likovc and we have little material, these are actually less than we should have and I believe that in the future these funds must be completed. We should have all the documentation that has archive value, no matter where and when it's produced. When it was produced by the founders, because the function and mission of Kosovo archives is to collect, protect, preserve and provide in use documentation with permanent archive value”, he said.
Manaj called for more commitment from institutions responsible to collect and protect evidence and materials from recent war.
These are documents produced by various creative funds, from the field of state institutions, from the field of education, health, the area of economy, culture at different times. The conditions must be created to realise this function that I consider sacred for the needs of Kosovo's citizens and state, for harvesting, for storing, for processing, protection, preservation and provision at the use of”, he said further.
Meanwhile, he expressed concern that more documents are found outside the archive, adding that the country's history should be in archives.
Manaj is also seeing the growth of spaces, but also the digitalisation of the entire country's archives system so that the preservation and finding of documentation is accessible to citizens as well. It takes more investment that would have to be done in the first place with human capacities, with adequate spaces, technology and digitalization. No nation can have a future without its history. The story is in the archives and in our case we have more documents outside the archives than inside them. Investment priorities for archives for the conditions and circumstances of adequate labour should be placed on government, because without conditions and human capacities, without adequate space, without technology cannot be realised the mission that is otherwise holy to the state and citizens of the country”, Manaj said.
