Stolen From Us All: Malalai Kakar

[dewline]

A lot of times of late, I've been letting the reports of the dead from Afghanistan go unremarked and that's been my mistake.

This time, Afghanistan suffered an undeserved loss, one of many, but this one happened to strike a bell in my memory. Her name was Malalai Kakar.

The part of the story that I know and am angered by thus far is here, thanks to the CBC. You will likely find more on her life in the years from the start of 2002 to its wrongly premature end elsewhere on the Web. My advice, based on half-remembered articles, would be to cross-reference against the Toronto Star.

Humanity lost a good one here.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Ouch. This definitely is a reminder of what their society could be ... if extremists were not putting it "to the torch."

[dewline.livejournal.com]

What their society may yet become, despite their extremists.

I think this is the one, single area where I agree with our current government, but they need a much better advocate for this particular cause than they now have. Hillier's in the private sector and not given to eloquence. Dallaire's in the Senate already. And McKenzie? Not sure what's up with him right now beyond his "talking heads" moments.

sorry

[(Anonymous)]

thanks for the info but lots of it is wrong so make sure you double chek every thing

Hm?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Alright, I'm prepared to be corrected if that article is indeed wrong.

So here's my question to you, whoever in Manitoba you may be: how so?

Keep in mind, there is the occasional freelancer or staffer affiliated with CBC who drops in here, and I expect they'll also be a tad interested in your answers, since it's one of their articles we're discussing.