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MY CITY
(Kosovska Mitrovitsa)
by Mitar Golyak
8 years old. |
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MY CITY
(Kosovska Mitrovitsa)
by Iovan Mladjovich
10 years old. |
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MY CITY
(The Albanians
Burnt My House)
By Haidihi Rabie (Roma)
11 years old. |
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MY CITY
(Kosovska Mitrovitsa)
By Hatige Bytyqi
9 years old. |
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A bridge is used to unite people. But not in Kosovska
Mitrovitsa (in the North of Kosovo-Kosova) where a bridge,
barbed wire and the French troops separate two human
groups the Muslim Albanians and the rest of the Kosovars
(the Orthodox-Christian Serbs the biggest group among
them) from ethnic hatred and mutual extermination.
The fact that the Mitrovitsa bridge was erected exactly
ten years after the fall of the Berlin wall, is very
important for human history and may hint us about what
the 21st century may become: not a century separated
by two ideologies but a clash of values and ethnic identities. |
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| ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
is a neutral organization. In this page the spelling Kosovo-Kosova
is used in order to guarantee total neutrality. Kosovo
is the Serbian name, while Kosova is the Albanian name
for the Autonomous region of Kosovo and Metohia in the
South of Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia and Montenegro). |
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| Strict neutrality was kept during the workshops
held by ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS on
both sides of Kosovska Mitrovitsa in which more than 1.000
Albanian (in the South side) as well as Serbian, Montenegrin,
Gorantsy, Roma (Gypsy), Turk and Muslim Slav kids (in
the North side) drew Japanese calligraphy, learnt origami
and answered the messages from Japanese children. |
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| The children of Mitrovitsa were also asked
to draw "MY CITY". And
this is what they drew (see leftside): |
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