Isabelle Stead of Iraq's Missing Campaign. Last year she produced an award-winning film, Son Of Babylon, about an Iraqi woman's search for her son who went missing under Saddam HussainThe Ghosts Of Baghdad: One British Woman And The Agonizing Search For The Missing Millions In Iraq -- The Daily Mail
Post-Saddam, a 31-year-old filmmaker is helping the Iraqi people to achieve the impossible: identify the army of dead - and release the bereaved families from their torment
Two young men look intently at the computers that control their slideshow. They don’t see the images that are projecting onto four screens fitted to the wall beside them. This is quite deliberate. They are solely for the benefit of their small audience.
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My Comment: One thing that I have learned about armed conflicts is the agony that families go through in not knowing if a missing love one is a prisoner, in hiding, injured, or dead. Closure is so important to move on .... and for many families .... Iraq being one of them .... closure is a commodity that is in short supply.
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