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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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