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- From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
- Subject: Just send us the pills...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.160409.2746@jack.sns.com>
- Organization: Systems'n'Software
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:04:09 GMT
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- ''JUST SEND US THE PILLS ...'' !
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- Mufeeda Alic's cry of despair
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- By Irfan Mirza
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- Bosnia's Muslim Women are asking the (Muslim) world to fly them
- plane loads of oral contraceptives because being subjected to
- repeated rape they do not want to perpetuate their agony by also
- becoming pregnant.
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- Mufeeda Alic is a Bosnian woman worker. She says ''If you can't
- protect us don't bother sending us other medicines, just send us
- the Pills.'' She is not cynical. She thinks the world can do
- more!
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- She adds: ''In some places, like the eastern region, girls over
- the age of eight are raped at least two or three times a day.''
- For them it has become a part of the way of life. I met one woman
- who was raped by six Chetniks and is pregnant.
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- Large numbers of women and very young girls have reported being
- raped and brutally violated. It is impossible to think that they
- will ever recover from the shock. They are the living dead of
- Bosnia.
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- A 17-year old Muslim girl from the city of Rogatica described how
- she was raped and beaten-up by Chetniks. The Chetnik warriors
- then branded the Serbian cross on her chest with a heated iron
- rod.
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- Another 15-year old, from Banja Luka had been 'luckier'. She has
- a frightening tale of how she and her family had been beaten up
- by soldiers at a checkpoint while trying to escape. ''They were
- telling each other not to hurt us in our faces because the
- UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force) would see the marks''.
- So they just beat us all over our bodies.
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- Women aren't the only targets of Serbian savagery. Children
- qualify equally for their brutality. Drunken Chetniks go about
- towns and villages terrorising and kidnaping people. Just
- northeast of Mostar, the Chetniks have made a habit of hanging on
- branches the dresses of the little girls they rape. Each time the
- locals see clothing hanging in the bush they are overcome by the
- fear that yet another girl was raped and probably killed.
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- Francine Proulx, a French humanitarian aid worker, summarised the
- situation saying ''This place has become a living hell for women.
- I can not imagine a worse fate [than this] for any woman. It
- would be more agreeable if they just tied the women to sticks and
- burned them.''
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- She recounts the tale of an 18 year old girl who was kidnaped by
- Serbian soldiers. She said the girl was kept in a house the
- soldiers had taken and she was abused on a regular basis. She
- said that the girl was frequently sadomized by the Serbs, and she
- was given no food or water. Proulx says the girls told her that
- the soldiers made her drink their urine. She added that the
- Serbian soldiers kept the girl bound and blind folded, and they
- only fed her if she was able to correctly guess - from an
- identity parade - which soldier had sodomized her.
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- IMPACT INTERNATIONAL, 11 September - October 1992
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- SAVE BOSNIANS FROM HUNGER AND FREEZING.
- Make a donation to one of the organizations below:
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- Bosnia Relief Fund Bosnia Relief Fund
- 1926 freedomlane 330 East 39, Suite 4D
- Falls Church, VI 22043 Newyork, NY 10016
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- Food & Relief for Bosnia Ziraat Bank
- 277 west midland Ave. Account no 60558000433
- Paramus NJ 07652 330 Madison Avenue (32nd Floor)
- New York, NY 10017
- Bosnian relief
- American Red Cross
- P.O.BOX 37243
- WASHINGTON D.C. 20013
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