Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman, a newly elected member of Kosovo’s parliament, has broken taboos in the country by speaking about her experience as a survivor of rape during the 1998-99 war
Thousands of women and men endured sexual violence during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, but the subject remains taboo even today. Vasfije Krasniqi–Goodman, a survivor and activist, spoke to the parliament of Kosovo on March 9, calling for the stigma to be erased and for criminals to be brought to justice~RFE/RL
Emergency crews dug through the rubble in a desperate hunt for survivors in the village of Thumane after a deadly 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook central Albania….
In April, Kosovo authorities installed an old train near the border with North Macedonia as a memorial to hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians who were expelled during the 1998-99 war. Within months, vandals left the memorial in ruins
Hundreds gathered in Kosovo to remember friends and family who went missing during a war 20 years ago. They marched through the capital, Pristina, on August 30..Pakistanis poured onto the streets to show their solidarity with the people of the disputed region of Indian-administered Kashmir
The year-long Kosovo War — the final in a series of Balkan wars in the 1990s — has left in its wake simmering ethnic tensions and complexities