Eka

I would like to tell you the story about one girl. Her name is Eka, she is 20. She was involved in many activities organized in my organization, such as trainings with young people, reproductive health and rights sessions with young girls, she was participating in the series of the session: Bridal kidnapping is violation of my rights where girls were telling boys about the kidnapping and how they felt…

One day Eka was kidnapped. It happened in spring this year in the center of the town, during the daytime, not very far from our office. The witnesses told us later that she was grabbed by armed men, dragged towards the car and pushed in while she was screaming. No one could approach the men, as they were pointing guns to everyone and threatening them.

As it turned out latter she was kidnapped by a man, 45 who took her to the remote village and when her parents with some of the relatives came there, they were still threatening them. They had no way but had left her their although her mother was talking later that Eka had begged her not to leave her in that house…

She was not allowed to see anybody from her family, all the time she was brought from the village to town, she was always accompanied with her new relatives and did not have chance to talk to her mother alone. Everybody knew she was unhappy.

Later this summer we heard that she run away from the house of her husband, nobody knows how she managed it, as she was watched so thoroughly. Her husbands relatives attacked her parents house as they believed that her mother helped her, but they also did not know about Eka anything and where in a terrible situation.

A few days later, Eka phoned back home and told that she had crossed the border and was staying with her uncle.
I do not know anything about Eka after that.