Every year the world celebrates the anniversary of confronting "violence against women", which does not last for one day, as was customary, but continues for 16 days, as the event begins on November 25 and ends on December 15 annually, and the approval of the celebration started only since 1999, After continuous feminist and human rights claims.
However, the background to these celebrations is due to a local incident in the Dominicans, where four sisters girls resisted the brutal practices of the regime of Raphael Trujou, known for his blood in the sixties, while three of them paid their lives for this resistance, the fourth escaped death, to tell the story locally and globally.
According to the New York Times, quoting the book "Nerogello - The Death of a Dictator," by Bernard Dietrich, the four sisters (Minerva, Maria, Patria, and Dede Mariel) are girls from a well-to-do family, and their father is a businessman, whose feelings have sparked appearances. The dictatorship of Raphael’s rule, the formation of a network called “butterflies” to reveal Trujo's brutal crimes, awareness of his practices and spreading it to the public opinion, so it was only the last response to their activities to organize a process to assassinate them, but this assassination represented the last nail in the coffin of his regime. The book narrated that "the three girls were assaulted with sticks as they were returning on a road, were charged in the back of a car, carried the three to the top of a mountain, and were thrown from above, killed, and the authorities announced that they were killed in a traffic accident."
The book pointed out that «the ruler believed that the movement presented by the three sisters would end, but the opposite happened, the movement that these sisters established, continued to support the movement and the revolution, and the riots increased, and only six months after the assassination of the three sisters, and on May 30, 1961, was The assassination of Trujo.
The book added that «the Dominican people dealt with the true narration of the story of the three sisters, so dozens of poems were written about them who glorify their heroism, and several books were published, and the novelist Julia Al-Franz wrote about them an international novel that bore the name (in the time of the butterflies), and the artists held several plastic exhibitions expressing their journey» And the celebration took a more formal form after President Joaquin Plager, who was originally one of Trujo's men, stepped down, so the name "Sisters Mirabal" was printed on the official currency, and a postage stamp bearing their photos was issued, a museum was established in their name, and a film was produced that tells the biography or march of the sisters. The artist Salma Hayek starred in it, how many History books in schools included the story, and parallel books were issued specifically for children, containing this story, so that the younger generations realized the symbols of their national countries, and the name "Three Butterflies" was called the name of a big street in the country.
For her part, feminist activist, Mona Obaid, told «Emirates Today» that «international human rights and feminist calls since 1991 pushed the United Nations to consider this local occasion as the beginning of an extended global anniversary to confront (violence against women), first in their honor, and secondly as a commemoration For the memory, and thirdly, because the human meaning contained in this incident exceeds its local connotation, and it is a very successful choice, because the struggle of the three sisters and what happened with them, the extent of its brutality and criminality, summarizes the convergence of several tributaries of the issue of violence against women, aspects that are intertwined political, social and cultural, and becomes what happened They have a product that contributes to you This side of the party ». It is worth noting that the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, issued by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993, defined violence against women as “any violent act that is paid to the nervousness of sex, and which it has the potential or likely to cause any harm or suffering to women in terms of Physical, psychological or sexual rights, including threats thereof, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty in public or private life.
- 4 sisters girls resisted brutal practices
The regime of Raphael Trujou, known for his blood in
Sixties, while 3 girls paid them
Their lives pay a price for this resistance, the fourth escaped
From death, to tell the story locally and globally.