When Human Rights Is Ruined …

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Since the war’s end, the ethnic Albanians who make up the vast majority of Kosovo’s population have been picking up the pieces with help from Western countries. Justice, though, remains elusive, particularly in cases of sexual abuse. A study issued in March by Human Rights Watch reported 96 documented cases of rape against Kosovar Albanians; the organization believes the actual number of rapes committed by Serbs during the NATO bombing was much higher. The report says, were committed by Serb paramilitaries “who wore various uniforms and often had bandannas, long knives, long hair and beards.” Other sexual assaults were committed by uniformed police and soldiers. “Rapes were not rare and isolated acts committed by individual Serbian or Yugoslav forces,” Human Rights Watch concluded, “but rather were used deliberately as an instrument to terrorize the civilian population, extort money from families and push people to flee their homes.”

In kosovo generally, women fear speaking about sexual assault, terrified that they will be blamed for what happened to them. A married woman risks being expelled from her husband’s family and forced to give up her children. An unmarried victim will probably never find a husband. “The stigma of rape is so deep that it is often stated that a ‘good’ woman would rather kill herself than continue to live after having been raped,” states a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Drita once considered telling her husband the truth. “I did not want to tell him directly so I asked him ‘what would happen to us if I were to be raped?’” she recalls, staring at the ground. “And he answered: ‘I would never keep you.’”

In our view; religious leader should say something with justice for the issues of Kosovo, not for followers or race.

 In God’s eye, human being only.