ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月26日 10時01分

Photo by @Hammond_Robin for @ICRC | “As we fled, I lost my husband,” says 27-year-old Iraqi mother of six Sara Ali describing the battle that engulfed her village. “Now, he is missing. It is better to live under siege than to lose a husband.” Sara poses in front of a blanket her mother gave her as a wedding present. As Sara and her family fled the fighting, the men were separated from the women and children. Eight months later, Sara and her children returned home to find it had been looted. They live in poverty awaiting the return of her husband. “I hope that you will never witness what we have experienced in this war.” .
With the end of combat operations, Iraq is hoping to break the cycles of violence that reach back to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. These conflicts have caused immense suffering for civilians: millions have fled their homes, livelihoods have been destroyed and large numbers have been killed and wounded. .
Men make war; women live with the consequences. At least that is the way it is largely perceived. While living with and reacting to those consequences, women are hardly passive victims, though. They grieve, they fight against the suffering, and many find they are forced to re-invent themselves, shedding an old identify and forging a new one shaped by war. .
The International Committee of the Red Cross is a humanitarian organization working on all sides of conflict to alleviate people’s suffering. To see more from the A Woman’s War project, go to @ICRC

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