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هل تعرف " النساء اللاتي ترفضن أن تموت"؟ إنهن نساء سربرنيتشا

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Women Who Refuse to Die We follow four survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as they look to the future despite the pain of their past. Filmmaker: Mohamed Kenawi "When they took away my children in 1995, they also killed me - in the most brutal manner. This is not life .... I had my family and in just one day I'm left without them, without knowing why. And every morning I ask myself why, but there is no answer. My children were only guilty of having the names they had and their names were different from their killers. It was not only my children killed on July 11, 1995; thousands of other innocent children were murdered in the bloody genocide in Srebrenica .... I no longer have anything to lose; the criminals killed all I had, except for my pride." Hatidza Mehmedovic In July 1995, an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys - sons, husbands and brothers - were dragged away never to be seen again. The Srebrenica massacre marks a particularly inhumane

Bosnia: The Journey 2012

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published on 06/07/2012 17:24  Learning from the Velić family - Samira (1/07/2012): It’s been almost two weeks since we arrived at the homes of our Bosnian hosts in a remote village in Eastern Bosnia. My new home is a quaint green house surrounded by breathtaking hills and buzzing with wildlife and forests. And when I say buzzing with life… I truly mean ‘buzzing with life’! I’ve seen the most beautiful and bizarre creatures of the insect world… varieties of ladybirds and locusts and bees and bugs in general (much to my husband’s disdain!). The almost deserted hilltop is called Nova Kasaba, and in the Serb dominated municipality of Milići. I say deserted as even though there are seven family homes where we are… only three seem to be occupied at the moment. This is a common phenomenon, mainly due to the lack of opportunities particularly for Muslims here in the Serb controlled Eastern Bosnia (Republic of Srpska). Nova Kasaba is one of many villages that in the past decade has tried t

المرأة الفلسطينية في اليوم العالمي للمرأة

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#Worldwomenday #CoverHanaDay20 Published on 07/03/2012 اخترت لكم قبيل "اليوم العالمي للمرأة" هذا المقال بقلم الكاتب الراحل جلال عامر . وفى نهاية كل سنة تختار المجلات العالمية رجل العام وأنا أختار امرأة العام وبعد مراجعة الكوتة وأسماء ملكات الجمال اخترت «المرأة الفلسطينية» وإليكم الحيثيات التى كتبتها من قبل لهذا الاختيار «أنحنى وأقبل يد كل امرأة فلسطينية.. الفقيرة اليتيمة الأرملة الثكلى أم الشهيد والجريح والأسير.. عندما انهار الاتحاد السوفيتى امتلأت علب الليل بنساء جئن من هناك ليرقصن فى الكباريهات على أشلاء الوطن.. وعندما سقطت ألمانيا سقطت معظم النساء (كتاب الرايخ الثالث).. وبعد تحرير فرنسا كان يتم حلق شعر العشرات من كل شارع لأنهن تعاون مع النازى.. فى معظم البلاد التى تم احتلالها انتشرت الحانات والمواخير وامتلأت بنساء البلد يرفهن عن جنود المحتلين.. إلا أنت فلم تقدمى نفسك إلا شهيدة، إلا أنت يا غصن الزيتون يا شجرة الكرم يا نبع الشرف.. عصرتك المحن وانهالت عليك المعاول فلم تنعصرى ولم تنكسرى.. يا أمى، يا ابنتى، يا أختى، يا حبيبتى، اسمحى لى أن أتذكرك فقد نسيك كثيرون.. يا صابرة