An exhibition was opened in the courtyard of the Assembly of Kosovo on the occasion of April 14 – the Day of Sexual Violence Survivors during the recent war in Kosovo.

The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, is also participating in this event, where various works painted by survivors of violence are exhibited.

“Marking April 14, the month when there were the most rapes during the last war in Kosovo, would be a permanent seal of a tragic chapter of our history, and would be a union of our voices to show how women “Kosovo men, despite the great suffering, turned their suffering into force, to raise their voice for justice”, said Osmani.

The president also spoke about the situation in Ukraine, where rapes of women by Russian soldiers are reported.

“23 years after the war in Kosovo, when we hoped that Europe and the world would no longer wake up with images and pain in the eyes of girls and women, but not only that, pain and sadness took place again on our continent. Today, some of you, but also many other women in Kosovo, sympathize and understand best the pain, sadness and disappointment that girls and women are experiencing in Ukraine, but also in other parts of the world,” said the first of state.

“You girls and women, men and women, have become the truest and most sincere narrator of the sufferings and experiences of our people, and at the same time you have become our daily motive, our common journey towards justice.”