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 Re: العنف منقوشا على أكفانهم/ن يزين فلادلفيا، مع تعليق من بروفيسور داريوس جوناثون . (Re: Khalid Kodi)
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This installation, by Khalid Kodi, is dedicated to Hawa Haggam. A woman from Darfur, whose six children have been killed by the Janjawid militas (?), and as a result, she lost the ability to walk and to speak her story has been documented by Alarabia TV. In the past three years, over 200,000 innocent civilians were killed in Darfur. Over two millions were displaced by the war, thousands of women were raped and hundreds of villages were burned down.
Violence Inscribed
Dr. Nada M. Ali
Far from becoming a memory yet, the atrocities committed against innocent men, women and children from all walks of life in Darfur will be inscribed into our collective consciousness for centuries to come.
The violence has been so large-scale, so dehumanizing and so destructive that in different parts of the world, individuals of all ages have mobilized to express their solidarity and call for a stop to these atrocities. The global civil society stood firmly against the killings, the rape, the burning of villages and the destruction of a whole way of life…
But the killings continue,
And so does the pain…
In London, across the road from 10 downing street,
Demonstrators had sheets of paper with the names of men and women, killed in Darfur, attached to their shirts…
Some sat on the ground, some lay on the ground, and some stood in despair….
In Washington DC,
not far from Capitol Hill
Demonstrators put blue helmets on their #########….
Protection and justice for the people of Darfur, this is all they wanted,
For
“Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere”
Marin Luther King, Jr.
And back in Darfur, the colorful tobes that women used to carefully wash, dry and iron…
The tobes that women used to wear during Eid celebrations
When visiting friends or family
or when attending a pleasant occasion…
The tobes have acquired alternative roles and functions….
Alternative meaning
They are currently used to cover the dead….
Violence and sadness are etched on these garments forever
Will life ever be the same again?
For you?
For me?
For women like Hawa?
Never,
For, violence has been inscribed into our collective consciousness and memory…
Will life ever be the same again?
Will life ever be the same for women like Hawa?
And can we live with the despair?
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Khalid Kodi
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