Word: ayesha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Urirchar late last week the winds were calm and the sea lapped softly against noiseless beaches. But there was little peace -- or hope -- among those who had survived the night of terror. At the ill-equipped local relief camp, 26-year-old Ayesha Begum plaintively told of how she had spent two days searching for the bodies of her husband and two children. She had not found any of them. "Why," asked the widow, fighting back tears, "why is Allah so unkind as to keep me alive?" Her question, like her prayer, was unanswered...