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Girl in Pulitzer-winning picture still has nightmares.
Tarana Akbari, 11, no longer wears her best dress, which was drenched in her own blood and that of her relatives who were among 70 people who died around her at a religious festival on December 6 last year.
Tarana still cries sometimes when she remembers that day, but she managed an occasional shy smile in an interview with AFP at her modest home on Tuesday, as she cuddled her sisters, who were both wounded in the blast.
That her picture has been featured on newspaper front pages around the world means little to her, she says, with a small shrug and a fleeting smile.
But when she first saw the searing image she wondered: “How come I am alive. I can see all the dead bodies around me but only I survived.”
yes, this was the tragic event of a Shi’a commemoration of Muharram if I remember correctly, right around Ashura. slaughtering innocent Muslims like livestock, and still calling themselves Muslims. guess they never heard the prophet say that if you kill one innocent human being (let alone a Muslim), in effect, it is like you have killed all of humanity.
“A photo of a Muslim woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding up a bra as she sorts laundry is stirring controversy in Kamloops, B.C., and the Saudi Arabian Embassy is now involved.” Read article
