Word: qumayom
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...Qumayom, the seasons have already changed, maybe forever. ?This is a blighted place,? he says. ?All this was God?s will, for this place, and for us who live...
...Until last Saturday, Uri had been a relatively safe place in Kashmir, despite its near proximity to the Line of Control. Aside from some stray shelling every few years from across the Pakistani border 12 miles away, Qumayom says his hometown was an island of peace amid the violence that swept Indian Kashmir when a civil war erupted between Indian soldiers and Muslim militants in 1989. ?Uri was safe,? he says. ?Nothing happened here. It?s always been a place apart. The soldiers did their duties and we did our jobs. We didn't bother each other...
...established in 1949 after the first India-Pakistan war. But that seemed to evaporate with summer?s family reunion. Yet even that recent happiness is a distant memory now. Asked whether he had word from Muzzafarabad, the epicenter of Saturday's earthquake where an estimated 11,000 people died, Qumayom said absently: ?We have had no communication with them...
...every thought is filled by the image of Sohil, running along a narrow lane between Qumayon?s two houses, as the walls bulged and burst into rivers of rocks and dust, swallowing the boy. ?We kept trying to dig him out,? says Qumayom, ?but every time we went back, the ground would shake again and we would run away.? He adds, blankly: ?We were afraid...
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