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Kosovo exhibition of dresses and skirts in Pristina to remember women who suffered sexual violence in wartime

Over 5,000 skirts and dresses have been hung out on washing lines in Kosovo in the heart of a male preserve, Pristina’s main football stadium. Many have messages written on them. All have been donated to the exhibition. They are there to draw attention to the stigma suffered by victims of wartime sexual violence, the idea of artist Alketa Xhafa-Mripa. “There is no help, there is no support, there is no status for them, then basically I thought how could I contribute in my artistic way for the survivors,” she said. Kosovo’s first female president Atifete Jahjaga donated one of her

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Women of Krusha

Source: Aljazeera

In southwest Kosovo, on the banks of the River Drin, lies the village of Little Krusha. In 1999 it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with a population of around 1,000, both Albanian and Serbian. According to witnesses like Marte Prekpalaj, what happened in Little Krusha on March 25, 1999, not only decimated the village's male population but was one of the most violent incidents of the 16-month Kosovo War. The women were forced to flee, first making a dangerous river crossing and then seeking refuge in neighbouring Albania, like hundreds of thousands of other ethnic Kosovar A