New Year 2025 to be year of successes in international recognition of genocide against Albanians in Kosovo

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Dear Albanians,

The year 2024 closed the quarter century period from the implementation of Serbia's genocide of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-1999 war.

At the initiative of members of Kosovo's “Genocide Centre, the open wound”, on May 16, 2019, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo approved the Resolution for genocide, through which crimes committed during the war in Kosovo are officially defined as genocide.

What is hopeful, this resolution expresses the determination of Kosovo's legislative institution to take all necessary measures on the international and national level in order to ensure the punishment of those who have planned, committed, or have promoted genocide.

On 16 November 2022, the “Genocide Centre in Kosovo has turned to Kosovo institutions at a request that, four-story poppy poppy, become a unique memorial symbol of genocide in Kosovo.

This initiative met in extraordinary support of prominent intellectuals of nationwide space (the cultural, art, science and sports personalities); scientific institutions; political party leaders; deputies of the Kosovo Assembly; associations throughout the earthly globe, etc. At the local level of power, the assemblies of Kosovo's 23 municipalities almost unanimously approved that the four-story poppie should become a unique symbol of the genocide in Kosovo. We hope that during 2025, this symbol will take on official form from the Kosovo Assembly.

In order to be more successful in the face of the continuing denial of genocide by the Serbian state, the “Genocide Centre in Kosovo sees the truth about genocide against Albanians in Kosovo as necessary to co-ordinate its activity with political, scientific and national institutions around the earthly globe.

Only by committing themselves to master justice for all victims of genocide, for those thousands of children, women, elders, elders and Albanians of all ages who were brutally killed by Serbia's armed forces, for those tens of thousands of Albanian women sexually raped and for the humiliations that have been done to some 1 million Albanians expelled from their shelters, we can wish each other a new year of trying to close the plague of genocide that runs through blood, pain and suffering hundreds of thousands of Albanian families.

Kosovo's “Genocide Centre covers an open wound” wishes you New Year 2025, in the hope that our individual and collective commitments will be crowned with positive results in efforts to triumph justice.

Geneva, December 31, 2025

Kosovo's “Genocide Centre