PRISHTINA – The Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosova has filed an indictment against the person with the initials D.R under the suspicion that he sexually assaulted a woman during the war in Kosova.

According to the announcement of the Prosecutor’s Office, this is the first indictment of this type in absentia as “all efforts to find the accused have been exhausted”.

According to the Prosecution, the accused was a member of the military reserve forces of Serbia, at the time of the war in Kosova.

According to the indictment, he committed sexual violence against an Albanian woman, who suffered “physical injuries to the body as well as severe permanent psychological trauma”.

The exact number of victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo is not known. According to a report by the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this figure reaches up to 20 thousand.

The Kosova Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors (QKRMT) has data on about 900 victims.

In Kosova, for the first time this year, April 14 is marked the Day of Survivors of Sexual Violence during the last war.

This day, according to the authorities, was announced to “recognize the pain” of all survivors of sexual violence during the war and to contribute to the collective memory.