" I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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