3 minutes agoKMDLNJ: Punishment of Zoran Vukotik, Hope for Victims of Sexual Violence
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms has reacted after Zoran Vukotic's sentence to 10 years in prison. By KMDLNJ, they have seen this as a step towards implementing the right to justice for victims of sexual violence during the recent war in Kosovo. For KMDLNA, this sentence raises hopes that crimes [...]
By KMDLNJ, they have seen this as a step towards implementing the right to justice for victims of sexual violence during the recent war in Kosovo.
To KMDLNyne, this sentence raises hopes that such crimes will not remain unpunished.
KMDLNY response:
KMDLNj's conviction in Pristina considers Vukotic's sentence a step towards realising the right to justice for victims of sexual violence during the recent war in Kosovo, as human rights and moral retribution for the uncompliable damages to these victims.
Sexual violence, except as a war crime in Kosovo, has had ethnic character as well.
To KMDLNj, this sentence fuels hopes that such crimes will not remain unpunished, despite that by far the number of convicts is more than symbolic.
The KMDLNj considers that this human rights organisation's work has been praised for helping to clarify this case that has resulted in the pronunciation of the sentence.
KMDLNI hopes and believes this sentence will not remain an isolated case, but will be condemned by other perpetrators so far that war crimes never age and the sexual violation used as a means for achieving political and military goals has qualified as war crime.
