Women for Women is a charity that provides much needed support to women who have been caught up in war - enabling them to develop. This KML tells the stories of some of the women's showing their struggles and achievements. By: Women for Women International
| 0: Habiba Ver detalle |
| 1: Azada Ver detalle |
| 2: Marigul Ver detalle |
| 3: Noorzia Ver detalle |
| 4: The Women's Center Ver detalle |
| 5: Zikreta Ver detalle |
| 6: Safeta Ver detalle |
| 7: Women of Sarajevo Ver detalle |
| 8: Azra Ver detalle |
| 9: Jeanette Ver detalle |
| 10: Honorata Ver detalle |
| 11: Esperance Ver detalle |
| 12: Bukavu Ver detalle |
| 13: Rosine Ver detalle |
| 14: Francine Ver detalle |
| 15: Marie Claire Ver detalle |
| 16: Bobette Ver detalle |
| 17: Ntarama Church, an hour south of Kigali Ver detalle |
| 18: Fatima Ver detalle |
| 19: Prisoner in Port Sudan Ver detalle |
| 20: Karak Ver detalle |
| 21: Prescilla Ver detalle |
| 22: Zainab with women in Eastern Sudan Ver detalle |
var49_Title: Habiba
var50_Subtitle: Kabul, Afghanistan
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var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Habiba at the compound where she lives with her two daughters in a single room. “There were times in the midst of our walking that someone would yell, ‘The Taliban are coming!’ and we would all run fast, as we were afraid for our lives. Now, Habiba has completed the Women for Women International program and manages the Women’s Garden store in Kabul, a park and market area for women-run stores. Today she spends her days running the store, keeping the books and proudly chatting with customers.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Azada
var50_Subtitle: Kabul, Afghanistan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Afghanistan_pg_148_Azada.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: "I endured the cruelty of my husband because I didn't have other choices. I was also lucky enough to have a father who saved me." She left her marriage and returned home where she worked weaving carpets with her family and took another job at a textile factory. Community members derided her for leaving her husband and working outside the home. When the Taliban fell she enrolled in gender-awareness classes and learned to cut semi-precious stones--work that was previously the domain of men. Today she teaches other women stone-cutting, beadwork and design.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Marigul
var50_Subtitle: Kabul, Afghanistan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Afghanistan_pg_153_Marigul.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: "We are tired of wars," Marigul says. The 50-year old woman lives with her three sons in one small, cold room. When her husband was killed and the Taliban took over, Marigul still had one advantage over some women: Her three sons could go outside the home, although she could not. After a year of vocational training with Women for Women International, she obtained a microcredit loan to purchase raw materials and start a shoemaking business with her sons.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Noorzia
var50_Subtitle: Kabul, Afghanistan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Afghanistan_pg_159_Noorzia.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Noorzia is a woman in love: She is 40 years old and the mother of nine children. "What can I do?" she asks shyly, "My husband loves me so much!" After fleeing the Taliban, Noorzia and her family returned to Kabul where she enrolled in business-training classes with Women for Women International and took out a small loan to start a restaurant. She is shown here holding a letter from her Women for Women International sponsor.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: The Women's Center
var50_Subtitle: Vardak, Afghanistan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Afghanistan_pg_167_Rewriting_History.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: At the women's center in Vardak province, once-isolated women gather for training and mutual support.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Zikreta
var50_Subtitle: Busova?a, Bosnia and Herzegovina
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Bosnia-pg-31-Zikreta.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: "My daughters give me happiness. I live for them -- they are keeping me alive."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Safeta
var50_Subtitle: Busova?a, Bosnia and Herzegovina
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Bosnia_pg_38_Safeta.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: "My husband was away digging trenches that night…then knocking on our door started, and we heard voices, which asked us to open the door," says Safeta as she relates the horrors of abduction and rape by soldiers and some of her own neighbors, "They did not even wear any masks."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Women of Sarajevo
var50_Subtitle: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Bosnia-pg-55-the-business-of-survival-women.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Strong and determined, Bosnian women come together weekly to take part in microfinance programs that help them rebuild their families' lives. "Nothing is too difficult for us," says Lucija, second from left. We are women, and women can do anything they think of."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Azra
var50_Subtitle: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Bosnia_pg_45_Azra.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Azra, a psychology student whose father hid her and her siblings in a basement during the war, learns sewing at the women's center. Helping her is Jasmina, director of sewing, standing behind her, and Ajsa, manager of South Region for Microcredit Program, Women for Women International.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Jeanette
var50_Subtitle: Kabare, Democratic Republic of the Congo
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Congo_pg_76_Jeannette.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Jeannette with her youngest child. Her hands were cut off by rapists. Authorities began searching for her after she spoke out against her attackers. Today Jeannette is beginning to learn new skills and is hopeful her children will grow up to live a normal life, though the older children are still in an orphanage. "For the future, I hope for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Honorata
var50_Subtitle: Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Congo_pg_88_Honorata.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Before war came, Honorata was a director of a technical institute for girls. All that changed when she was abducted and held captive for a year by soldiers who took turns raping her. She escaped win the chaos of an attack on the camp by another militia and was reunited with her family. After participating in classes on women's roles and the importance of becoming an active citizen, she stood up in front of political and community leaders on International Women's Day and called for official accountability for the suffering of Congolese women. "Having someone recognize my humanity again has dared me to hope."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Esperance
var50_Subtitle: Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/DRC-pg-67-Esperance.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Esperance was abducted at 17 by soldiers. "We worked hard," she recalls. "If you were working, you got some rest. If you were not working, you were being raped." She escaped several months later, pregnant and critically ill. Some villagers found her and took her to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu. She is shown here with her son Daniel. Like many rape victims, she loves the child she knows is an innocent victim. Yet his face is a constant reminder of the soldier who enslaved her. With facial features different from her own background, Daniel, like many other children born to raped mothers during this war, is treated like an outcast by many in her community.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Bukavu
var50_Subtitle: Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/DRC-pg-74-Bukavu-photo.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: A road leads through the eastern commercial hub of the city, as seen through the windshield of a vehicle operated by a non-governmental organization. The red circle with the X through the rifle on the windshield denotes a vehicle that carries no arms.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
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var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Rosine
var50_Subtitle: Kigali, Rwanda
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Rwanda-pg-225-Rosine.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Like many women, Rosine, a Tutsi, had to watch as her husband was killed before her eyes. Then, after being severely beaten, she and her two daughters were taken to a lake with dozens of others and thrown into the water to drown. They were the only survivors. The Women for Women International sponsorship program gave her the funds to get on her feet again. Today, she produces cassava and sweet potatoes and owns two cows and some goats. Being able to sustain herself and her children has also increased Rosine's sense of self-worth.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Francine
var50_Subtitle: Kigali, Rwanda
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Rwanda-pg-231-Francine.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Francine, a 33-year old widow is shown with her two daughters, one an orphan she adopted after the genocide. "Treat every child like your own" was the motto of the Rwandan President seeking homes for the more than 600,000 orphans from the genocide.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Marie Claire
var50_Subtitle: Kigali, Rwanda
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Rwanda-pg-240-Marie-Claire.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: HIV comes home to haunt women and children, especially in Africa when war sends soldiers off to battle. Marie Claire contracted HIV from her husband when he came back from the war and unwittingly passed it to her third child, Bobette. "Surviving the genocide, I did not believe that living with HIV/AIDS would be my fate." Today she is active in HIV/AIDS education and cultivates land in her community with other women in the co-op formed with her Women for Women International group.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Bobette
var50_Subtitle: Kigali, Rwanda
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Rwanda-pg-242-Bobette.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Bobette, dressed up to have her picture taken, holds a lily. Bobette, her mother and father are all HIV-positive.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Ntarama Church, an hour south of Kigali
var50_Subtitle: Bugesera, Rwanda
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Rwanda-pg-245-Ntarama-Church.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: The Catholic church where thousands of Tutsi sought refuge still bears witness to their slaughter in 1994. Rows of skulls show machete hack marks. Bones and scraps of clothing are scattered where pews once stood.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Fatima
var50_Subtitle: Port Sudan, Sudan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Sudan_pg_203_Fatima.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Susan Meiselas
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Women are not permitted to walk alone in Fatima's conservative Beja culture. She does so anyway as an act of civil disobedience. Fatima identifies herself as an "Islamist capitalist." She started two business, managed by her brothers, and works as a grassroots political organizer and teacher of women's rights to other Beja women in Port Sudan.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Prisoner in Port Sudan
var50_Subtitle: Port Sudan, Sudan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Sudan-pg-211-Prisoner-in-Port-Sudan.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Susan Meiselas
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: This mother of three is serving time in prison with her children for brewing beer. Sudanese laws against selling alcohol are strictly enforced in Islamic areas around Port Sudan, but not in her native Southern Sudan. Men who buy beer are not punished.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
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var49_Title: Karak
var50_Subtitle: Khartoum, Sudan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Sudan_20pg_179_Karak.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Susan Meiselas
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Karak is surrounded by women asking her advice in one of the displaced persons camps that ring Khartoum. Karak became a Women for Women International staff member and is now Country Director for Sudan.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Prescilla
var50_Subtitle: Rumbek, Sudan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Sudan_pg_191_Prescilla.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Susan Meiselas
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Prescilla is the first of her husband's nine wives. Like women in many areas emerging from war, she has taken on leadership roles that women in traditional patriarchal societies are rarely permitted to play. After her husband died, she became head of a large family clan, a successful businesswoman, and a recognized political leader. The sign at her store reads "Don't make friendship with credit. Come tomorrow. We are still going on, if God wills. New Sudan."
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.
var49_Title: Zainab with women in Eastern Sudan
var50_Subtitle: Sudan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Sudan-pg-15-Zainab-interviewing-Sudan-women.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Susan Meiselas
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, interviewing women in Sudan.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.