How a Kosovo Exhibition Ignited a Battle Over Memory
An exhibition chronicling Kosovo war atrocities was shut down by local authorities, igniting a bitter public feud over historical memory, data accuracy, and state negligence.
On March 24, 2026, two Kosovo-based organisations, Admovere and Integra, opened a public exhibition in Pristina’s central “Mother Teresa” square, presenting what they described as a chronological documentation of 49 massacres committed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war1.
The exhibition, titled “Massacres in Kosovo 1998-1999”, drew from a broader body of work documenting 105 incidents. Organisers stated that only those cases supported by photographic evidence and witness testimony were included in the public display, while the full dataset appears in a 2024 publication of the same name. The initiative received financial support from Kosovo’s Assembly alongside private and international donors.
In public statements, the organisers said their work relied primarily on data compiled by the Humanitarian Law Center, led by Natasa Kandic. They noted that Kosovo institutions still lack an official, comprehensive registry of war victims, making existing datasets the only available reference.
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