Minister Gashi shared gratitude for Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman

“In terms of special and rare contribution to domestic and international opinion sensors between art for experiences, and the suffering of 20 thousand Albanian women during the 98-99 war in Kosovo, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, we share gratitude to Mrs. Vasfiye Krasniqi-Goodman<1>, Gashi stressed.

Krasniqi-Goodman praised the gratitude donated by the Ministry of Culture and expressed confidence that even in the form of art the stigma that has 20 thousand women raped during the war.

The goal I am to go public has been to break the stigma that many Albanian women have had for 20 years, and I hope that in various ways with the breaking of the stigma, so one of them is through the art”, she said.

At the House of Culture in Prizren, where gratitude was shown to Krasniqi-Goodman, a performance titled “Bisha on Monday” was given.

Krasniqi-Goodman is the first woman to survive sexual violence during the 1999 war to speak publicly about experiences during sexual torture during the war. She lives in Texas, U.S.A., married a mother of two. Currently 36 years old, Krasniqi-Goodman was only 16 years old when he was violated by Serbian police officers.