Zoya's Story by John Follain

Author:John Follain [Follain, John; Cristofari, Rita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203729-9
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Although she went to live in exile in Quetta, where she set up the Malalai Hospital, she knew that she was still in danger. She received several death threats and even told the authorities in Pakistan about them, but the police ignored her and gave her no protection whatsoever.

She was at her home in Quetta when an Afghan agent of the KHAD strangled her with tow. She was thirty years old.

Soraya told me that one of the men suspected of involvement in the murder plot was Gulbuddin Hikmetyar, the warlord who for three years shelled the people of Kabul from the mountains to the south after the Russians had left. He was responsible for the deaths of twenty-five thousand people in the capital. The life Meena led still inspires us.

“You know the dangers,” Soraya said to me. “Are you prepared to accept them? You may achieve nothing in the way of money or power. But if you choose this work, you must prepare yourself for the possibility of being arrested and of being tortured to make you reveal what you know. You may lose your private life, and you may also lose your life. Remember that the door is always open if you want to leave. Maybe the time will come when you will be too scared or too tired. At that time you should leave, but you should always keep RAWA’s secrets in your heart.”

I did not hesitate. “I know that you have made many sacrifices, and I am ready to do the same,” I replied.

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