Over 100 photographs that are evidence of the Serbian genocide in Kosovo will be exhibited tonight in The Hague. Murders, disappearances, kidnappings, mass graves and many other documents will be part of the exhibition, “Reflection of massacres and other crimes from the last war in Kosovo through a photographic exhibition”. With this, the Coordinating Council for Missing Persons and War Crimes aims to raise awareness among international opinion about the crimes committed by the Serbian state in Kosovo.

The doors of the Kosovo embassy in The Hague, the Dutch city where the Special Court is headquartered, will open to all visitors at 18:00h. The exhibition will be open until tomorrow at 17:00h.

The Chairman of the Coordinating Council for Missing Persons and War Crimes, Ahmet Grajcevci, spoke to KosovaPress about the purpose of this exhibition.

Grajqevci: The goal is to raise awareness among international opinion

“The goal is to raise awareness among European and world opinion – internationally, because there will be other journalists who will observe that exhibition, and the injustices that are being done to us during various trials. The exhibition includes murders, disappearances, kidnappings, family members who have been in prisons and have disappeared from prisons, mass graves in Serbia that have been exhumed, and every document that has been found and that can be used in that exhibition, we will use it. But we don’t always use the same photographs. In that exhibition when we go, many times we leave the pictures to embassies or their archives to keep them”, says Grajqevci.

In the exhibition, which this time will be held in The Hague, participants will also be witnesses to the massacres committed during the war in Kosovo.

Grajqevci: Together with us they will be witnesses of the massacres

“There are Luljeta Sharani, Fëllanza Bunjaku, Leotrim Caraku and Fadil Muqolli as family members, who have experienced a great massacre in their family and the disappearance of their family members. So they are eyewitnesses of the cases. We usually take as eyewitnesses with us, if they’re not available , we take a family member of the families. Every time we go exhibiting cases that we have touched with our hands and seen and visited many times”, he adds.

He says that they expect a large number of visitors to see the photographs that are evidence of war crimes.

Grajqevci: Exhibitions are artifacts of what happened in Kosovo

“It depends on the space we have, we have prepared 100 to 120 photos. But, it depends on the place, the space available and how many photos can be exhibited. There are differenet photos in each exhibition. Exhibitions show what happened, it is an artifact and a fact that not only The Hague, not only we as Albanians, or as those Serbs, should see, so the tragedies are no repeated,” he concludes.

After The Hague, the exhibition will also be held in Berlin and Geneva.

The first exhibition was held in Tirana in 2018, then in Turkey, London, Zagreb, Vienna and Austria.

During the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo, over 13 thousand civilians were killed, over six thousand were forcibly disappeared, 1600 of them continue to be missing and about 20 thousand women and men were sexually raped.