WAITING FOR THE SON TO RETURN – BUT HE WILL NOT
This text was translated from the original version in Farsi. You can read the original post here.
The mother who, two days before the death of her son, said goodbye to her son, did not know that this would be her last goodbye to him.
A young 23-year-old Panjshiri man by the name of Faiz Agha was going to Panjshir from Kabul together with two of his friends. They paid for their journey with the little money that they had. They went to their village, the place where they lived prior to the invasion of the Taliban.
Karwashee is one of the villages in the district of Rokha, in Panjshir. When the Taliban attacked their village, Faiz Agha and his friends, among others, bravely defended their native lands against the foreign Pakistani invaders by the name of Talibs, despite having few resources available. Two days after the fighting, they were taken as captives by the Taliban.
Contrary to the accepted standards of treatment of prisoners of war, the Taliban behead one of Faiz Agha’s friends and execute him and his other friend by a firing squad. The Taliban do not even allow the boys’ families to collect their bodies after their death.
And the mother, waiting impatiently for the son whom she has had no news from since two days ago, receives the news that her son has been killed and is being buried. The mother’s wait is over.
Here in Kabul, here is a mother who is bawling and weeping at the thought of her innocent son’s face and how he was murdered, of finding his nameless grave at the foothill of the mountains near their village, of kissing the tombstone whose whereabouts she does not know.
10 June 2022
