4 minutes agoVictims of sexual violence during the war, Osmani: Justice is not achieved without criminals being held accountable
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)The country's president, Vjosa Osmani, said today that Kosovo's pride and honour are victims of sexual violence. At the international conference organised by the CRC on sexual violence, it declared that justice is not achieved without criminals being held accountable. I want to assure you that our support for you will increase and continue... For [...]
At the international conference organised by the CRC on sexual violence, it declared that justice is not achieved without criminals being held accountable.
I want to assure you that our support for you will increase and continue... For the past 25 years, we have remembered the pain, but we have testified that there is hope and determination against this pain, said Osmani.
The “those who sought to dishonor Kosovo never succeeded because surviving women are our honour. Our support for this cause has only one beginning, when the CRC was founded 25 years ago and there is no end. For 25 years, QRCT has done something for survivors that words cannot fully describe.
QKRMT has offered a safe haven... a physical and emotional shelter... for hundreds of survivors of sexual violence”, Osman was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, the survivor of sexual violence during the war, Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman, who six years ago publicly confessed to the crime experienced, recalled the day of April 14, 1999.
Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman said he would never forget the horror he experienced.
This may be a story, but to me April 14, 199 is something that, no matter how long it's been, it will never leave me... Dear family, thank you for staying with me for the last 24 years and my husband thanks so much.
Sometimes I try to be good all the time... It's hard to be in Kosovo when you have other survivors contacting me, but there are survivors only promised to apply for status, but you are not recognised as status. And that's something he didn't forgive my government”, he said.
The 25th anniversary of the founding of the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors is hosting international conference on sexual violence in the conflict.
Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize laureates, reports.
The director of the Kosovar Centre for the rehabilitation of Torture Survivors, Feride Rushiti, recalled the autumn of 1998, where he said he first met the war-affected population. Among them, she pointed out that the most vulnerable group were the survivors of sexual violence who needed emotional support.
