The Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo has filed an indictment against the person with the initials D.R under the suspicion that he sexually assaulted a woman during the war in Kosovo.<\/p>\n
According to the announcement of the Prosecutor’s Office, this is the first indictment in absentia as “all efforts to find the accused have been exhausted”.<\/p>\n
According to the Prosecution, the accused was a member of the military reserve forces of Serbia, at the time of the war in Kosovo.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment, he committed sexual violence against an Albanian woman, who after suffered “physical injuries to the body as well as severe permanent psychological trauma”.<\/p>\n
The exact number of victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo is not known. According to a report by the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this figure reaches up to 20 thousand.<\/p>\n
The Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (QKRMT) has data on about 900 victims.<\/p>\n
In Kosovo, for the first time this year, April 14 is marked the Day of Survivors of Sexual Violence during the last war.<\/p>\n
This day, according to the authorities, was announced to “recognize the pain” of all survivors of sexual violence during the war and to contribute to the collective memory.<\/p>\n
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