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New Zealand film-maker Sharron Ward on the trauma of being imprisoned in Libya
8 Jan, 2021 07:00 PM
11 minutes to read
By: Joanna Mathers
Joanna Mathers talks with award-winning New Zealand documentary film-maker Sharron Ward about coming home .
Isolation had the sting of familiarity. Confinement, enforced meal times, dull, aching hunger. Small aftershocks of Libya but without the
lurking malevolence.
Returning to New Zealand (and two weeks isolation) from decades living in London, Kiwi film-maker Sharron Ward felt the echo of another confinement. In 2012 she was held for three days by anti-Gaddafi forces controlling Tripoli, after filming at an ex-military base-turned-IDP (internally displaced persons) camp. ....

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