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President honours erased on Human Rights Day

President honours erased on Human Rights Day

SloveniaTimesPresident Nataša Pirc Musar urged the government to fully tackle the worst human rights violation in Slovenia’s history as she honoured the erased, the thousands of people descending from other parts of the former Yugoslavia who were removed from Slovenia’s register of permanent residents in 1992.

The erased have been forced to become human rights advocates, having to resort to all domestic and international mechanisms in the fight for the respect of human rights, the president said as she presented them with the award she introduced last year to acknowledge work for human rights.


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Kosovo Takes Careful Steps Towards Remembrance of Wartime Rape

Kosovo Takes Careful Steps Towards Remembrance of Wartime Rape
BalkanInsight_logoA culture of silence exists in Kosovo around the issue of wartime rape, but initiatives like the newly-opened War Rape Survivors Museum in Pristina are trying to make sure the crime and those who suffered are remembered.

S.N. perches on the edge of a sofa, her lips trembling as she recalls the events of April 21, 1999, when she was among some 300 women and children rounded up by Serb forces in a school in the Kosovo mountain village of Dragaqine/Dragacin. The words do not come easily.

“For three days, every day, they took us one by one into the next classroom,” she said. “This happened two or three times a day.”


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