Immigrant's Life in the Shadows Ends in a Jerusalem Blast

[GabysPoppy]

Menbere Waldi Tzadik and her husband slipped into Israel from Ethiopia on tourist visas eight years ago and lived here in the shadows as illegal workers. They cleaned houses and sent home the small sums they saved to support two children they had not seen since leaving Ethiopia.

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Identifying the dead from the Thursday blast was complicated by the sheer power of the 15-pound bomb, the police said. It sent body parts flying through windows and into homes along Gaza Street, just a block from the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

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The fear of arrest and deportation was so great that Ms. Tzadik had changed her commuting schedule, friends said. She used to take an early morning bus with few passengers, but she thought that made her stand out, and more liable to be detained.

Recently, she took buses during rush hour in the belief she would more easily blend in. But Palestinian bombers have worked on that same premise and have often chosen crowded buses to inflict the greatest number of casualties.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/international/middleeast/02MIDE.html

Victims of terrorism are more than just numbers and statistics. They are human beings each with their own story. Menbere Waldi Tzadik should be remembered for more than just being the eleventh identified victim.

[Dark Star]

1. Yes.

I believe we have both had friends who definitely were human beings each with their own story; each relegated to some stat on page 12 of a few newspapers. Dis heartening, to say the least.