Iraq's sectarian violence leaves widows to suffer

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Iraq's sectarian violence leaves widows to suffer
By Terri Judd
Published: 24 June 2006

When Wadah Abid al-Emear feared his meeting would overrun, he asked his wife to go ahead of him to prepare for Eid.

The couple planned to leave Baghdad and head back to her Kurdish home town of Shaklawa for the celebrations. Hours later, as he followed behind, Mr Emear, 42, was dragged from his car by insurgents, tortured, mutilated and murdered - his body left at the roadside.

Today Dunea Ramez, 31, sits alone in what was her husband's favourite room of the house he designed himself. The windows are enlarged to give the best view of the mountains he adored. Clad in black and leading a now isolated life, she has at times been so despondent she contemplated killing herself along with her seven-year-old son, Kefah.

She is still not entirely sure what the motive was behind her husband's death. The family believes Baathist insurgents were responsible but, like so many murders in Iraq today, the killers have never been found.

Yesterday afternoon a group of Iraqi women held a silent vigil to mark International Widow's Day on the steps of St Martin in the Fields at Trafalgar Square in London.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1096067.ece

[pooja]

1. Many American Wives should take the vigil of Widow's day too.

[ninkasi]

2. She mourns the death of her husband

and the life they shared, courtesy of George W. Bush and his neocon followers. How has Iraq, or the U.S., or the world been made safer by her husband's death? We haven't been made safer, but the pResident wanted his war, so he had his war, regardless of how many lives have been ruined. Damn all of the people who wanted this war, and brought about so much misery and suffering.