Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq's tragic history
By PAUL SCHEMM | China Daily | Updated: 2010-05-26 07:54
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A man visits the tomb of his brother, Zaid Saleh, last week at the Shiite cemetery in Najaf. Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press |
NAJAF, Iraq - Pictures of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight-year war with Iran, while Naeem was a casualty of the savage sectarian fighting that gripped Baghdad in 2006.
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