Mourning events, some of which last days, have replaced birthdays and wedding parties in Iraq. Death “the unwanted guest will visit you at any moment,” according to this heart-felt anonymous letter about death in Iraq by a journalist at the BBC Baghdad Bureau. Beginning with the assassination of his young cousin, Marwan, a police officer, the author tells heartbreaking stories of how Iraqis have become “the firewood in a war which has no logic and victims of warriors who lack honour and nobility.”
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Living With Death: The Unwanted Visitor
An Iraqi BBC Baghdad Bureau staffer reflects on being surrounded by death in his country