PAmerican professor Alon Ben-Meir through a Facebook response has reacted following the assassination of Arlinda Zekiaj in Kosovo, criticising institutions for failing to protect women from domestic violence.
Kosovo experienced war, persecution and unimaginable suffering in its struggle for freedom. Women were among the ones who paid the highest price. Yet, today women are killed in their homes, while the very institutions they have to protect fail constantly. This year alone, eight women are reportedly killed as a result of domestic violence. Arlinda Zekaj prayed for protection from the authorities. She warned them that her life was in danger. Three days after her last call, she was stabbed by her brother – in – law, only because she was trying to bring her son back because he had been taken away from her husband’s family. He wrote.
And he saw it as a national disgrace.
This is a national disgrace. A country that fought for its freedom should never accept a reality where women are denied the most fundamental freedom of all – the right to live