April 12, 2013 - The Iraqi woman, known as ‘Riverbend’ has returned to the internet and written her first article on her weblog since October 2007, for what she says is “probably the last time.”
Writing to mark the ten year anniversary of the Iraq war, she is angry and despairing. Asking what have people learned over the last decade, she replies, “Lucky ones die a ‘normal’ death… A familiar death of cancer, or a heart-attack, or stroke. Unlucky ones have to be collected in bits and pieces. Their families trying to bury what can be salvaged and scraped off of streets that have seen so much blood, it is a wonder they are not red.” read more>>>
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