In an exclusive interview for T7, a woman who survived sexual violence during the last war in Kosovo spoke. In this interview, she has shown how she was raped in Pristina by 16 Serbian paramilitaries in front of her husband.
In this confession for T7, she says that she remembers everything in detail about how the terrible event happened and adds that if such a thing was done to a doll it would be terrible, let alone a human. The woman who agreed to speak to T7 says that she did not think that she would live and that she had often thought of finding a way to end her life.
“It has been very difficult. I have them all in my mind, what happened. How they tore my problems, how they all have a relationship. They play like a doll. They are not human beings. With a doll with a lion it is something terrible, and no longer with a human soul. I had no strength to save myself. I no longer thought that I would live, I thought about how I would die. Sometimes I say that it would be better to die, because it has been 25 years since I cried with tears every day. It’s impossible not to remember them”, she confessed.
In this interview for T7, she says that she did not even enjoy the liberation of Kosovo, as she only wanted to end her life. She adds that the children were one of the reasons why she continued her life, as she did not want to leave them alone.
“No. If I say yes, I would be naïve. I was completely dead. I only have the focus on how to escape from this world. I tried dozens of times. I used every item. It was the children. I was saying what they will do when they grow up. I kept telling her to push until her legs were taken,” she added in her confession to T7.
This woman, in her confession, says that thanks to God, today she has managed to overcome her entire difficult situation and has encouraged other women who have had such a terrible fate, to find strength and not to give up despite pain.
“Thank God today we have overcome it and my message is for women. Today we are strong, we do not give up. Despite the fact that our souls ache and our hearts cry, our bodies tremble, we will find the strength”, she said.
