BAMYAN (SW) – Bamyan residents remained shocked days after the bloody Tuesday bombing here that devastated this otherwise peaceful little town in war-ridden Afghanistan.
In the east of the city, in the valley of “Sumara”, lives Jawaher whose husband died of an illness two months ago. Last week, she lost her two sons, Nowruz and Saleh, to the brazen magnetic bombing here.
The poor and devastated mother in the Sumara valley had sold most of her belongings, including a little patch of land for the treatment of her husband, but to no avail.
On a cold winter evening, the people of the village had gathered at Jawaher’s home to share her grief. In a quite small and dark room of this mud house, a group of women were sitting around Jawaher, consoling her.
Pausing between sighs and groans, she would recall the names of her beloved sons. Next to Jawaher, her daughter was equally devastated by the loss of her two brothers: “Oh, my brothers!”, was what she kept shouting looking blank into the roof held by old pillars of timber.
Jawaher told Salam Watandar her young sons had gone to town to buy clothes. The distressed mother said she kept waiting for them to return with their new clothes; but they never returned.
The sister of the two victims said the government was responsible for the killing of her brothers. “Can the government bring my brothers back? Why? There had been no explosion in Bamyan before.”
The grieving family wants the perpetrators of Tuesday’s bombings in Bamyan to be arrested and tried in their presence.
Saleh, the youngest in this dejected family, was equally shocked by the grief of his brothers’ death and could not speak.
Mohammad Amin Emami, a relative of the family, said that after the death of his father, Mohammad and Nowruz were the only hope for their widowed mother and the breadwinners of the family. “Now that Saleh and Nowruz are martyred, there is no one left in the house of Jawaher, an old mother, just a young girl and a teenage boy with a mental illness,” he said.
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