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Date: 16 Jul 2013 19:56
Subject: New IRIN Film: Yemen - A Scarred Generation
To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]>
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*New IRIN Film: Yemen - A Scarred
Generation<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=98427>
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[image: lead photo]NAIROBI, 16 July 2013 (IRIN) - “I’m handicapped inside”,
says Ahmad, who in October 2011, aged 15, was shot and injured in street
protests against the government in Yemen’s capital Sana’a.
The wound left him with a limp, and deep psychological scars. After
struggling for a year with the mental trauma from that day, he sought help
at the city’s al-Amal Hospital for the Treatment of Psychological Illnesses.
In recent years, Yemen has witnessed more than its share of violence - from
tribal wars, battles between Al-Qaeda and government forces, and the
instability that came with the Arab Spring. More often than not, children
have been caught in the crossfire, and psychologists warn of a scarred
generation of children who are experiencing sustained psychological trauma
from these conflicts.
View film <http://www.irinnews.org/film/4966/Yemen-A-scarred-generation>
IRIN’s
new film “A Scarred generation” tells the story of two Yemeni children -
Ahmad, now 16, and Amira,12. Both have been traumatized by conflict and are
being treated at the al-Amal Hospital in Sana’a.
Their psychiatrist, Ayed Talha, warns: “It is now well established that
children exposed to trauma are more likely to become aggressive later in
their life when they become adults… so we’ll have a crippled society at the
end of it if we don’t give them the appropriate care.”
Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=98427>
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