“Shame is not on women raped and tortures during the war. Shame lies with those who perpetrated this crime. There is no ‘them and us’, we are one, and we have to put an end to their stigmatization because for these women, the war has not ended yet”, said President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, on the fifteenth anniversary of 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims.

Jahjaga said the change should start in their families and the society and added that women survivors of torture are heroes. “In these fifteen years, this centre has been a reliable and strong partner of the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo and its institutions, traversing together in the aim of finding the legal, medical, psychosocial mechanisms, for the sake of rehabilitation and reintegration of all the citizens who have fallen victims of violence and torture during the war”.