Global News by Tag: post-conflict
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA – Kulsum Dilawar, 16, stands up nervously before sitting back down on the edge of her bed, her eyes gazing down at the floor. Wearing a simple outfit and a printed scarf covering her hair, she flips through the pages of her notebook.
“Can we talk outside?” she mutters.
KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA – Thiyagalingam Kumaradasan, 39, says he was blinded a decade ago when he was caught in a shelling attack during Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.
Kumaradasan lives with his wife and 18-month-old daughter in a village in Kilinochchi, a district in Sri Lanka’s Northern province. He does not work because of his disability.
PRISHTINA, KOSOVO – Amidst the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, many displaced citizens abandoned not only their homes but also their pet dogs. The homeless dog population grew with each passing year.
KANDY, SRI LANKA – Kethmi Hettige, 17, is a student from Sri Lanka’s deep south, where the traditions and culture of Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority are fiercely protected. But she says she received exposure to the minority Tamil language and culture when she attended the Future Leaders Conference in August in Kandy, a city in central Sri Lanka.
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA – Kandegedara Arachchige Lionel, 43, has been working for more than 11 years in Kotikawatta-Mulleriyawa, a village council in Sri Lanka’s Colombo district. He is a health laborer, otherwise known as someone who collects garbage.
He says he does the job so that he can afford to educate his daughters, since he studied up to only grade five in school.
“I want to give good education for my three daughters of 13, 7 and 2,” he says.
GULU, UGANDA – On Sept. 9, 1990, 21 years ago, rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, abducted Florence Amony from her home in Palenga, a village in northern Uganda, as she slept. She was just 13.
The rebels pretended to be government soldiers, and her father easily believed them because the family lived near a barracks. Rebels robbed the family of household items and even forced Amony to carry some of their belongings as they took her away from her parents, too.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR -- Sana Mir, 21, is studying to be a doctor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. When she returned home for a month-long vacation this summer, she found her hometown of Srinagar in a state of chaos. Mir says she was confined to her home for the entire month thanks to violence, strikes and a strictly imposed government curfew.