December 29, 2003
WHAM BAM
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The Washington Post reports today from the
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36948-
2003Dec28.html">terrible tragedy in the Iranian city of Bam. Its
historically significant ancient Citadel was destroyed, but that site's
been unoccupied for years. More tragic was the estimated death of
40,000 Iranians in occupied Bam. Sadly, poorer countries often suffer
disproportionately from natural disasters such as earthquakes because
their housing stock is relatively flimsy. Oddly, one Iranian couldn't
summon too much sympathy for the thousands of dead, even as he dug
their bodies out of the rubble:
Sardari, his eyes bloodshot, pointed to a domedTagged:
structure that remained standing in the same compound. "Nobody stayed
in those rooms, and they are still there," he said. "God was willing to
kill people."
"I don't know what the people have done," he added, after a thoughtful
pause. "They were bad, I suppose." Then he slapped his hands together
and let out a kind of cackle that brushed aside his effort to make
sense of it.
Posted by Lexiphane at December 29, 2003 12:56 PM
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