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.
How to Unite a Deeply Divided Kosovo? Name a Lake After Trump
A lighthearted suggestion by a U.S. envoy hoping to bridge a vast rift between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo has taken on a life of its own only to be ridiculed by local residents on both sides.
An artificial lake in Kosovo has not one but two names: one used by Serbians and another used by ethnic Albanians. A huge banner suggested a third name: “Trump Lake.”Credit.Laura Boushnak for The New York Times
Published Feb. 27, 2021Updated March 1, 2021
ZUBIN POTOK, Kosovo Ljiljana Trifonovic, an ethnic Serb living in a waterside hamlet in northern Kosovo, never cared for American politicians “they are all against us,” she said but she took a shine to Donald J. Trump when he was in the White House.
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