We Need a Better Way to Prosecute Sexual Assault in Conflict
March 11, 2022
Following many years of organizing within the United States, Kosovar survivors of conflict-related sexual violence that occurred during the 1998 to 1999 Kosovo War are now pressing U.S. President Joe Biden to seek redress and accountability from the government of Serbia.
A letter sent to Biden by Democratic Congressman Adriano Espaillat of New York and 15 of his colleagues in December requested the administration to urge Serbian President Aleksander Vucic to bring justice to the perpetrators who raped and tortured Kosovar women, citing the case of Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman, a U.S. citizen born in Kosovo who was raped by a Serbian police officer as a 16-year-old girl in her village in 1999.