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The CDHRF Statement to mark the anniversary of the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Datum:
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:33:29 -0800
Von:
"CDHRF" <cdhrf@albanian.com>
KËSHILLI PËR MBROJTJEN
E TË DREJTAVE DHE TË LIRIVE TË NJERIUT
COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF HUMAN
RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Rr. Vellusha 46, 38000 Prishtinë
- Kosovë; tel&fax: 381 (0) 38 36 965 & 530 409
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e-mail: kmdlnj@albanian.com
DESPITE OF ALL - CHILDREN WILL SURVIVE
The CDHRF Statement to mark the anniversary of
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
This year, CDHRF marks the anniversary of the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the most difficult year that
the Albanian population in Kosova, in particular the Albanian children,
has experienced. In the course of 1998, 1795 Albanians were killed and
mutilated by the Serbian, police, military and paramilitary forces. Among
them, 196 were children. This year, the Albanian children have suffered
the gravest killings and mutilations of their parents, brothers and sisters.
They themselves were subjected to Serbian terror: they were killed due
to shelling, they were executed, stabbed and mutilated. Two girls aged
14 and 16 were raped and then, mutilated and executed. New-born babies
lived and died in the open, under plastic sheet shelters, without any medicines,
food, clothing or medical assistance. Little Fidan (6) was killed, Afrim
(11) died due to torture. Little Leutrim was killed in his cradle. Diturie
(6 weeks) survived the massacre in the bosom of her killed mother.
We would like to mark the anniversary of the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with the positive results of our
work in the field of the protection of the rights of the children, to join
the voices, wishes and hopes with all organizations, institutions and subjects,
which can contribute to the education and protection of the rights of the
children.
For years now, we have been waiting and hoping
that the tragedy of the Albanian children in Kosova will arouse the conscience
of the world and the interest of the international organizations and institutions
on human rights. Kosovar children, children without childhood, children
- expelled from their kindergartens, schools and faculties, children -
subjected to physical and psychological torture, children - subjected to
incessant violence, children without any hope or future, children -whose
parents died, children that work hard to earn for their families, and the
organizations protecting their rights have made appeals and called upon
the world.
Thousands of Albanian children, that suffered
inhuman ill-treatments, saw terrible mutilations, heard the cries of the
wounded, beaten and those tortured in their presence, heard the cries of
those frightened, saw the new-born babies dying of famine and cold, wandered
for months from village to village and from forest to forest, without any
food, clothes, medicines, in bad weather, under the open sky, under the
threat of the weapons of the enemy, with no place to return to, no schools
to learn, address you with their voices expressing their pain.
These children appeal to you with hope that one
day they will live a dignified life as foreseen with the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child.
The Albanian children of Kosova send you their
bitter experiences. In the meantime, their Serb neighbours, full of happiness,
fill their kindergartens, the school yards and the classrooms which were
built by those whose fundamental human rights were denied. The Albanian
children do not envy the happiness of the other children. They do not want
to steal the smiles and the happiness of the others. There is no hatred
in their hearts. Yet, there is indignation, there is a need to enjoy the
right to live and to grow in freedom, in their land, in Kosova, in a free
Europe. There is a feeling of pride and dignity that their parents have
not violated the rights of the others.
The message they send is that despite of all
children will survive.
Greeting you, the Albanian children want to draw
your attention on the violation of the rights of the child here and all
over the world.
Prishtina, November 20, 1998 Chairman of the
CDHRF
Prof. dr. Pajazit Nushi
wplarre@dillingen.baynet.de
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