78 days of fire, a lifetime of smoke
NATO bombings — between hope and terror.
Subconsciously I promised myself that if I survived I was going to dedicate my work to finding out what happened and how much harm all that was happening had caused.
On March 24, 1999 at 7 p.m., as I waited in my central Prishtina apartment, NATO started the bombings.
It’s difficult to find a proper way to react toward a process that has contributed toward both saving a nation but also leaving some parts of that nation crippled.
Furtuna Sheremeti
Furtuna Sheremeti is a criminologist and legal scholar specializing in state crime, state harms, transitional justice and international criminal law. She holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford and is completing her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Prishtina and serves as a legal consultant to Rexhep Selimi’s defense team before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
This story was originally written in English.