PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) β More than 5,000 skirts and dresses have been hung on clotheslines in Kosovo’s main football stadium in the capital Pristina, part of an art installation seeking to highlight the plight of rape victims during Kosovo’s 1998-99 war.
The dresses were donated in response to a call by Alketa Xhafa-Mripa, a Kosovo-born British artist whose work often deals with the issue of sexual violence.
Thousands of women were raped during Kosovo’s war with Serbia, the overwhelming majority of them ethnic Albanian. Exact figures are not recorded as the issue is often suppressed in Kosovo’s patriarchal society. The installation was backed by Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, the region’s first woman president.
