From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Just Send Us the Pills
Date: 8 Jan 1993 20:27:55 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
 
 
  ''JUST SEND US THE PILLS ...'' !
  
  Mufeeda Alic's cry of despair
  
  By Irfan Mirza
  
  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.
  
  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!
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.''
  
  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.
  
  IMPACT INTERNATIONAL, 11 September - October 1992
  
 
 
 SAVE BOSNIANS FROM HUNGER AND FREEZING. 
 Make a donation to one of the organizations below:     
 
 (Please also write to your elected representative
 and ask him/her to do something against the murder
 and rape of innocent people in Bosnia.)
 
  
 Bosnia Relief Fund       Bosnia Relief Fund        
 1926 freedomlane         330 East 39, Suite 4D     
 Falls Church, VI 22043   Newyork, NY 10016          
  
 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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