In a Land Dominated by Ex-Rebels, Kosovo Women Find Power at the Ballot Box
Women are winning greater political representation in Kosovo, raising hopes of more equality in a country still living with the scars of the war against Serbian rule in the 1990s.
“Patriarchal traditions are still strong, but we are finally moving,” said Saranda Bogujevci, who was elected to Kosovo’s Parliament last month.Credit...Laura Boushnak for The New York Times
March 6, 2021
PODUJEVA, Kosovo — Saranda Bogujevci gazed without flinching at a cluster of bullet holes left in the garden wall by a massacre two decades ago that wiped out most of her family and put 16 rounds into her own body.