Word: cenotaphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mahmoud's tomb is indeed spacious, largely a ceremonial room built by a 19th century nobleman named Khanzouri. In a smaller side room, which contains Khanzouri's marble cenotaph, Mahmoud's wife hangs the laundry. "The children were born here," Mahmoud adds, "so they are not afraid...
...have come as a pilgrim for peace," I he announced. Later, clad in white, he knelt before the cenotaph to the 140,000 people killed as a result of the first bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Then he rose, and as the eternal flame burned behind him, the Roma Hoo (Pope) last week spoke forcefully and with an edge of anger reminiscent of the biblical prophets: "The final balance of the human suffering that began here has not been fully drawn up, nor has the total human cost been tallied, especially when one sees what nuclear war has done...