Tarana Akbari, 11, no longer wears her best dress, which was drenched in
her own blood and that of her relatives who were among 70 people who
died around her at a religious festival on December 6 last year. Akbari still has nightmares about all the chaos and people dying around her. When she first saw the searing image she wondered: "How come I am alive.
I can see all the dead bodies around me but only I survived."She spends her days playing with
her sisters in the ramshackle house and in the dirt courtyard outside
which leads to an alley where huddled young men openly inject heroin
against crumbling mud walls.Behind those walls, the "Girl in
the green dress" nurses her pain and her fears, now dressed in a plain,
baggy, shalwar khameez hiding the scars from the day her life was torn
apart.
How could someone do this to people? Killing another is just wrong, but killing dozens of people is cruel.
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