Afghan family cries for fallen father

Afghan family cries for fallen father
Mar. 17, 2006. 04:52 AM
ROSIE DIMANNO



KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN-Semem Gul slaps at her face and thrashes at her chest. Her keening rises to a fever pitch, echoing off the crumbing mud walls of the courtyard, spilling into the narrow alleys of Shahidan Chawk, one of the city's most impoverished neighbourhoods.

She is now, because of an unidentified Canadian soldier, a widow in Afghanistan, and there's no worse fate for a woman in this country.

"I don't have a husband! I have nobody to protect me! What am I to do?

"You say sorry? What does sorry mean to me? Will sorry feed my children?"

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"They do not have the right to shoot at Afghans. Let them shoot at people in their own country, not here."

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