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“Most of the governments who come here, say, ‘We are doing this,’ and what happens on the ground is less than zilch,”
![“Those scars are still fresh in my mind,” she says. “On that night, I was lying unconscious on the road [un]til morning. Some villagers came to my rescue and dropped me at my home.”
Decades of conflict and political uncertainty in the Kashmir Valley are disrupting women’s hopes of having children](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9it7qdvHr1qa48l2o1_400.jpg)
“Those scars are still fresh in my mind,” she says. “On that night, I was lying unconscious on the road [un]til morning. Some villagers came to my rescue and dropped me at my home.”
Remember the Women Institute, which has been at the forefront of efforts to raise awareness about sexual violence against women during the Holocaust, believes it’s significant that Obama chose this week at the Holocaust Museum to make his statement about “the horror of wartime sexual violence.”
Even today, some scholars don’t want to acknowledge that various forms of sexual violence occurred during the Holocaust. The shame that sexually violated women feel for their entire lives has silenced many survivors, and the Nazis and their collaborators permanently silenced other victims by murdering them immediately after violating them.
http://womensenews.org/story/rape/120426/obama-addresses-sex-violence-at-holocaust-museum
Those who see the film, especially the people who lived through the war, are finally getting to cry over what they lived through, finally getting a chance to realize “I am here and I survived.”
When I started making this movie, playing the role of Lejla, the sister of the main character, the floodgates of hidden and suppressed memories and emotion lifted. I saw, yet again, the complete horror and terror of what it was.
The writer speaks freely about what she knows; it comes from inside. In the process, she works through the pain and shares it with others. It is the same for painters, musicians, composers and directors. But, as actors, we have to be chosen. We have to be given our lines to say. What was unique in making this movie with Angelina Jolie, the film’s writer and director, is that we were given exactly the lines we wanted to say.
I realized how much I wanted—how much I needed—to say those very lines.
”In the Land of Blood and Honey, Vanesa Glodjo
