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Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement in the Republic of Kosovo. An example of which is the election of Atifete Jahjaga as the fourth President of Kosovo [a] . She was the first female, [ 2 ] the first non-partisan candidate, and the youngest to be elected to the office of the presidency in the country.
These photographs became the basis for Fundstücke Kosovo (Kosovo Finds). [2] In 2011–12, Fundstücke Kosovo featured in Imperial War Museum London's Women War Artists exhibition. [3] Kathleen Palmer, Head of Art at the Imperial War Museum, commented that: "this focus upon their personal possessions brings to life the people who had been killed.
She was the first wartime rape survivor in Kosovo to do so. [5] [4] [1] On April 30, 2019, Krasniqi spoke to the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in a hearing titled "Kosovo’s Wartime Victims: The Quest for Justice," testifying that the United States should push for justice for victims of war crimes.
The Kosovo War (Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian ...
Several thousand more Kosovo Serbs have left their homes to seek refuge in Serbia proper or in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo. Since the end of the war, Kosovo has been a major source and destination country in the trafficking of women, women forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. The growth in the sex trade industry has been fuelled ...
The Gornje Obrinje Massacre (Albanian: Masakra në Abri të Epërme, Serbian: Masakr u Gornjem Obrinju) refers to the killing of 35 Kosovo Albanians, in a forest outside the village of Donje Obrinje on 26 September 1998 by Serbian Police Forces during the Kosovo War. Among the victims were women and children.
The fallout from this 78-day military campaign continues to be felt.
In March 2004, Kosovo experienced its worst inter-ethnic violence since the Kosovo War. The unrest in 2004 was sparked by a series of minor events that soon cascaded into large-scale riots. Kosovo Albanians mobs burned hundreds of Serbian houses, Serbian Orthodox Church sites (including some medieval churches and monasteries) and UN facilities.