This woman is not holding just a photograph. She is holding her daughter, in the only way she has left. This is Sanije Salihu from Gjakova. In her hand, she holds a photograph of her daughter, Vjollca. Vjollca was 20 years old when, in August 1998, during the war in Kosovo, Serbian forces took her in front of a shop. She disappeared, and for days and weeks her family knew nothing—whether she was alive or dead. After two months, they learned that she was alive and had been taken to a hospital in Belgrade. When her mother went there, it was no longer a matter of bringing her daughter home as she had been; she saw what had been done to her. She had burn marks from cigarettes, her nails had been torn out, she had been tied with rope, raped, and beaten to the point that her spine was damaged, leaving her paralyzed. Vjollca returned to Kosovo, but she never returned to the life that had been taken from her. From that day on, every day of her life was a consequence of that violence, while her mother cared for her until, in 2006, Vjollca died from those injuries. And Vjollca was not the only one. During the war in Kosovo, around 20,000 Albanian women and girls were raped by Serbian forces, and this number does not include many cases that were never documented. Many women were left with injured bodies, exhausted minds, families that did not know how to carry that pain, and a state that for years failed to recognize either their wounds or their voices. This photograph is evidence of a crime that Serbia still tries to push into oblivion. #serbianwarcrimes(Granit On Chain🟢🟢)