Tag: Trauma
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Ukrainian Boy Relives Trauma of Russian Bombing
A shifting scene unfolded within the European Parliament in Brussels when an interpreter broke down mid-sentence whereas translating the testimony of an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who survived a Russian missile strike on a youngsters’s hospital in Vinnytsia in 2022. The assault killed 28 individuals, together with Roman Oleksiv’s mom, Halyna, who had introduced him in…
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Looking for Closure: Households of Syria’s Disappeared Face Ongoing Trauma
A nation nonetheless looking A 12 months after Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell on December 8, 2024, Syrians are nonetheless looking for the reality. The portraits that hung from lampposts have been changed by the faces of the lacking, photocopied photos taped to shopfronts and partitions. Households have searched graveyards and deserted prisons, hoping a scrap…