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Maymouna Al-Basil – Al-Jazeera Talk – Al-Mosil
 In a troubled country, what adjective can better describe women suffering from life hardships in a country where wars have been killing men since 30 years and more?
Women with impossible duties, and so they are. Those who survive the death of their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons. Those who have to be the mother and the father for their families, in all these war and occupation troubles and hardships.
Now they even have an additional task: Identifying corpses of their relatives. This is by itself very hard, since many people who go for that are later killed on their way back home, near or inside the morgue. And since men die, this left none for that except women. Here are some examples and experiences of women who passed through this.
 Hanan 20 years couldn’t but go to identify her brother and twin, Haidar, who was kidnapped and killed in “Al-Sha’ib” Area in Baghdad. Hanan went to the morgue, and identified her brother’s corpse then rented a car with her sister and too the corpse to bury it.
Umm Aya is also another women who had to do this. This time it was her young nephew.She was shocked to find his body cut, distorted and ill-treated.
 Umm Murad’s case wasn’t better. She went to identify the corpse of her in laws’ son, i.e. her children’s cousin and her husband’s brother. She got his body for burial.
Hanan, Umm Aya, and Umm Murad are only few examples of numerous cases that exist. Examples of women who suffer much, in country where all its population is suffering as well and where miseries happen every second and every minute and on the witness of all the world. This country that became itself a distorted corpse, that not even its men and women can identify.
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