Jahjaga asks Engel for hearing at the U.S. War Crimes Congress and victims of sexual violence

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31 January 2019, 08:39(7 years ago)

Former Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga has announced a meeting she had with US Congressman Eliot Engel reports Periscope. She has made it known that during the meeting, Engel received a letter asking him to consider the possibility of organising a hearing session for crimes [...]

She has announced that during the meeting, Engel has handed her a letter asking her to consider the possibility of organising a hearing session for crimes committed by Serbia's state-run civil population in Kosovo, including sexual violence used as a means of war.

For this reason, it is important to organise this international-sized hearing for survivors of sexual violence, family members of the missing persons, families of the victims of war, activists for peace and freedom, and recognition of the circumstances of war in Kosovo can testify to war crimes committed in Kosovo by Serb forces. By separating the individual guilt from that collective we contribute to the truth, access to justice and reconciliation in the region”, writes Jahjaga among others.

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Good meeting with American Congressman Elliot Engel, once the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives at the American Congress.

During this meeting, I handed a letter to Congressman Engel by which I asked that the possibility of organising a hearing session for crimes committed by the Serbian state-run civil population in Kosovo, including sex violence used as a means of war. Even almost 20 years from the end of the war we still have no person convicted of these crimes.

To build lasting peace, addressing serious human rights violations during the war in Kosovo is necessary. History cannot be rewritten and the difference between aggressor and victim should be clear.

For this reason, it is important to organise this international-sized hearing hearing so that survivors of sexual violence, family members of undiscovered persons, families of war victims, activists for peace and freedom, and connoisseurs of war circumstances in Kosovo can testify to war crimes committed in Kosovo by Serbian forces. By separating individual guilt from that collective we contribute to the truth, access to justice and reconciliation in the region.