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Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 1992 12:08:16 CST
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Subject: JUST SEND US THE PILLS

From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam,soc.women,soc.culture.arabic
Subject: Just Send Us the Pills
Date: 6 Dec 1992 20:50:47 GMT
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 ''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
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