{"id":62907,"date":"2023-05-29T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=62907"},"modified":"2023-05-29T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T11:12:46","slug":"war-crimes-trial-kosovo-should-learn-from-bosnias-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/war-crimes-trial-kosovo-should-learn-from-bosnias-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"War crimes trial; &#8220;Kosovo should learn from Bosnia&#8217;s mistakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The director of the organization &#8220;Medica Zenica&#8221;,\nwhich operates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sabiha Husiq says that four\nprosecutors are not enough, as Kosovo currently has, in punishing war crimes.\nShe says that the state must create a safe environment for survivors to testify\nabout what they experienced and for the perpetrators of the crimes to be\nprosecuted. In an interview for KosovaPress, she also talks about the genocide\nlawsuit against Serbia, for which she believes that Kosovo should learn from\nBosnia-Herzegovina&#8217;s mistakes. Also, she talks about the experiences of this\ncountry in the treatment of victims of sexual violence by Serbian criminals.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabiha Husiq, who leads the oldest women&#8217;s organization in Bosnia, considers it important for women and men to talk about the torture they experienced at the hands of Serb criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"War crimes trial; &quot;Kosovo should learn from Bosnia&#039;s mistakes&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Bx2dEg-8b8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;First of all, the state must create a safe environment\nfor the survivors themselves who have spoken or will speak about their trauma.\nWhen I say a safe environment, I also mean the possibility of giving them\nfreedom when they want to speak and apply for their status, and this will\nsurely motivate and encourage women to testify so that the perpetrators of this\nwar crime can be prosecuted. So really, from the experience in Bosnia and\nHerzegovina, we can say how important it was for the women themselves to\ntestify in order to punish the perpetrators, and of course the state should\nadopt laws that will sanction this war crime&#8221;, says Husiq for KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the punishment of war crimes, Husiq adds that four prosecutors, as\nKosovo currently has, are not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the organization &#8220;Medica Zenica&#8221; says that\nKosovo should learn from the mistakes made by Bosnia-Herzegovina in the\npreparation of the lawsuit for genocide against Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interview for KosovaPress, she says that for three decades now, they have provided hundreds of services to survivors of sexual violence, victims of domestic and community violence. She adds that they offered psychological and legal counseling, economic empowerment and jobs in rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The full article can be found in the prepaid system.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 20 thousand women and men were sexually violated during the last war in Kosovo by Serbian criminals. So far, the local courts have only imposed a sentence of ten years for sexual assault on the criminal Zoran Vukotiq. Meanwhile, two indictments were recently filed in absentia by the Special Prosecution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the organization &#8220;Medica Zenica&#8221;, which operates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sabiha Husiq says that four prosecutors are not enough, as Kosovo currently has, in punishing war crimes. She says that the state must create a safe environment for survivors to testify about what they experienced and for the perpetrators of the crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302,306,298,296,3131],"tags":[3626],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62923,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62907\/revisions\/62923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}