Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. After she spoke up, other midwives found the courage to tell their stories. In the 90s, this would work for an ngo that worked with the midwives and encouraged by the training they had received, this small group of midwives saved at least five baby girls. We were working in partnership, documenting cases of infanticide. She helped save at least one of those babies and centre to an adoption agency in pune. We were on our way to meet monica. Medha remembers that before she was adopted and called monica by her new parents, the baby had a different name a name that began with kosi. The adoption agency would not let us look at the records, so we can never know for sure. But this girl s origins in patna, her approximate date of birth and the name kosi point to the same conclusion. Monica. In all probability, monica is one of the girls rescued by anila and the midwives. Since the day i came home, it was never kept a secret. Wh
It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry for stories. I had heard about a case of infanticide in katihar, close to my hometown, so i set off into the villages of bihar to see if it was true. Were baby girls still being killed at birth? at the time, almost all babies in rural bihar were born at home. So, i began by talking to the women who delivered them. The midwives. What i found then still shocks me. Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. Hakiya is talking about upper caste families. The midwives came almost entire
Devices somehow set to detonate at the same time, the people wearing those pagers were members of the iranian back backed Group Hezbollah, which the u. S. Considers to be a Terrorist Group. Hezbollah now blames israel for the attack we have Reporting And Analysis on all the latest developments from Tel Aviv to washington. First, we go to cnns Jeremy Diamond Standing by for us in israel. Jeremy, were learning more about how hezbollah communicates, opting for pagers over smartphones why and where are these pagers being well, jake, this appears to have been a low effort to avoid israels high tech surveillance, but it appears to have backfired on hezbollah becoming a vulnerability as a hundreds of these pagers to have exploded simultaneously. Today, you can see in the video from multiple security cameras, including an a free store for example where these pagers appear to have exploded. One of them in a bag that was being carried by a man. The result of this is that we now see that a 2,800
It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry forstories. I had heard about a case of infanticide in katihar, close to my hometown, so i set off into the villages of bihar to see if it was true. Hakiya is talking about upper caste families. The midwives came almost entirely from the lower castes. They often told me they did not want to kill baby girls. But refusing orders from these families was unthinkable. After hakiya spoke up, other midwives found the courage to tell their stories. Rani was the next to confess. Of all the midwives, she looked