Remembering Ukrainian Oksana Makar. Gone, not forgotten
Forward by Hayley Amanda Miles (NP) (NWOB.org)
“It has been ten years. We promised Oksana before she died that we would never forget. The pain is very much felt today but now it is ten years ago and she would have been 28, same as many of our youngest directors like Rosa,” remembers Sharon Santiago. “Oksana Makar, RINJ Member since 2010, raped 8 March 2012, then strangled and wrapped in a rug, set alight with an accelerant. With 55% of her body burned, she died 29 March 2012. Gone but not forgotten is our Oksana Makar,” writes ‘Amanda’ Miles in remembrance. Via Facebook, Oksana Makar joined the global RapeIsNoJoke.com woman’s group at 16, fighting gender based violence in 2010 from Facebook. Oksana was part of a campaign to fight rape promotion pages on Facebook in 2010 and 2011. In March of this year, after 15 years building over 65k anti-GBV supporters on the facebook.com/Rape.is.no.Joke page, RINJ left the social media platform this March because Facebook’s promotion of hatred and misogyny contraindicated drawing women and girls to the dangers of the platform. The public can now join RINJ Women here. “Facebook where RINJ had over 65,000 followers is allowing and concomitantly encouraging its members to promote the killing of Russians in Ukraine” said a statement on the NGO’s website. ![]() Photo from RINJ Women Heartbreak Cases ![]() RINJ Member Oksana Makar bonded many women in Ukraine as a collective voice for change. Remember Oksana Makar (11 June 1993 – 29 March 2012) File Photo Courtesy The RINJ Foundation |
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From 31 March 2012
The murder of Oksana Makar, after she was raped, strangled, set alight and left to die by three men, took place in Mykolaiv (Ukraine) on 8 March 2012.
Our Oksana Makar, then aged 18, died three weeks later.
The video Oksana Makar shot with her mom has had a few of our ladies in tears for days. We were raising money to help her and had even found a cosmetic surgery clinic in Toronto, Canada willing to help out. But Oksana died. her funeral this morning… now there are broken hearts and tears all around the world.