The process after a war
Do the international aid agencies have a "memory"? Do they learn from
their mistakes? This film describes the events from the war in Kosovo and
the handling of the aftermath. The conflict is still locked there, and the
victims of the war feel betrayed. What went wrong?
In the film we follow the former aid workers Josef Martinsen and Margita
Kukulaj Pakashtika that is documenting war crimes - where national and
international authorities have failed to do so. Josef and Margita are
convinced that a reconciliation or new start between the parties from the
Kosovo War presupposes that what happened in 1998-99 is recognized and
agreed upon as events that actually happened, and that these events is
investigated and prosecuted.
We meet Kosovo Albanian victims, people who claim serious crimes never have
been listened to their cases because of the constant politization of the
events of the war. Their desire is to be heard - that their stories should
be taken seriously, met with an understanding and respect, and not
attempted to cover, seen as troublesome sludge from a past that has no
place in the new modern Balkans.