City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 5)
City College Downtown: Global Narratives of Crime, War and Justice. (Day 5)
The final class engages the demands for new solutions by two women who are genocide survivors. In the documentary Darfur Now, Hejewa Adams explains how security forces killed her one-year-old son and burnt down her house. In order to protect herself, she joined a militia, but she was clear: “Fighting alone will not solve the problem in Darfur. Those who went to school and got an education are the ones who will solve the problem.”
In her 2018 Nobel Prize lecture, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor of genocide, exposed the international community’s failure to protect her community. Before the Islamic State’s systematic murder and sexual enslavement of Yazidis in Iraq, she was a girl who dreamed of finishing high school and opening up a beauty parlor in her village in the Sinjar mountains. She painfully learned “the need to define a new roadmap to protect women, children and minorities from persecution, in particular victims of sexual violence.”