Word: elma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elma Ahmic, 17, is haunted by memories of the brutal destruction of her village near Vitez, 37 miles north of Sarajevo, on April 16, 1993. A unit of the Bosnian Croat militia called the Jokers first shelled the mostly Muslim town, then moved in to finish off the men. Relations with local Croats had been good, she said, but after the arrival of the militiamen, "about 20 people surrounded our house, shouting, 'Get out of here! This is Croatia, not Turkey!' My father came out and asked them what they wanted. They took my father and killed him. They shot...
...wake up every morning not knowing whether their instrument is going to be there. "A singer is really a human container for the vulnerable, invisible instrument -- the voice. Because they can't touch their instrument, they can't see it, that makes for sensitive and fragile people," says Elma Kanefield, a psychotherapist at the Juilliard School in Manhattan with a private practice exclusively devoted to performing artists. "This instrument is vulnerable to weather or biochemical changes or other people's colds. I think they play out this vulnerability in other areas of life. Instead of their voices being vulnerable, they...