"They Had Names" - They are not just footnotes

[kpete]

03.19.12 - 7:37 PM
They Had Names
by Abby Zimet


...the victims became a footnote, an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names.

In honoring their memory, I write their names below, and the little we know about them: that nine of them were children, three were women."

The dead:

Mohamed Dawood son of Abdullah
Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma
Nazar Mohamed
Payendo
Robeena
Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed
Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid
Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed
Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Nabia daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Esmatullah daughter of Mohamed Wazir
Faizullah son of Mohamed Wazir
Essa Mohamed son of Mohamed Hussain
Akhtar Mohamed son of Murrad Ali

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/03/19-4

[hlthe2b]

1. May they find more kindness, more justice, more peace in the next realm.

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R...

[arthritisR_US]

3. TY for posting this. n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

4. K & R

[IndyJones]

5. Thanks for posting that. It bothers me how people talk about them like statistics

and not what they were - mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, family, friends.

[malthaussen]

6. Five daughters and a son of Mohamed Wazir

But we owe him no apology, I'm sure.

-- Mal

[tk2kewl]

7. .