Souad Mohammed sat
in her dead daughter's bedroom in the home they shared in the Syrian
town of Derik in the northeastern corner of the Kurdish enclave known as
Rojava.
She was
sifting through the chapters of her daughter's life, turning the pages
of a small photo album open on the bed in front of her.
When she came to what looked like a graduation photo she stopped and pointed to her daughter's long dark hair. Her killers had pulled that same hair so hard, she said, that it had come away with bits of her scalp.
Hevrin
Khalaf is the Kurdish politician who was brutally murdered on a stretch
of the M4 highway on Oct. 12 when suspected members of a Syrian rebel
militia linked to Turkey stopped her car, dragged her from it and killed
her.
Her driver and another passenger in the car were also killed.
It
was just four days days after Turkey had launched its incursion into
Northern Syria to create what it calls a "safe-zone" along its southern
border.
"They could not even show her body to me," said her mother. "There was not any part of it without bullets."
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