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[LIBERIA - Trauma healing and reconciliation]
[Liberia endured a brutal 14-year civil war. Since 2003, peace has returned and efforts are focused on rebuilding the country.]
[But the emotional and physical scars of war remain.]
[At the Trauma Healing and Reconciliation programme, led by Vaiba Flomo, women share their war experiences and support one another.]
Everyone is gone. My Ma, my Pa, my four children, my brother…. everybody.
They died in the war, all of them. And now I ain’t got nobody.
I got nobody because of the war.
When we had to move, two of my children died, one in my arms.
The war came again, and they told us to move.
I didn’t want to, I knew they would die.
And they all did. I got nobody.
The bitter experience we went through…
But we couldnt get anywhere. It was when we said NO ! Enough is enough !
And we said NO, we can’t just sit, when they were killing our men…
our husbands are among the dead.
When they were taking our children, and saying ‘you have to fight’,
that’s what made us say NO! Women, we have to move!
There is a song that says, yesterday is gone!
But we can’t forget it… it’s within us.
But what do we do when it comes back to our mind, to survive?
This is the healing for you, for all of us.
Even the fact that you see the white clothes, it serves as healing…
for our survival.
The songs… they serve… as survival. �