Telling the victim’s story
Telling the victim’s story ‘Vaadi-e-Khoonaab’ (Valley of bloodshed) is an important book which documents the life and death of over 120 unarmed persons killed during the 2010 civil uprising Majid Maqbool Publish Date: Apr 19 2013 12:00PM On a sunny day in the summer of 2010, Ess Ahmed Pirzada was walking from Bagh-e-Mehtab area when he saw school boys blocking the road and protesting on the streets, raising their voice against the killing of seven unarmed boys killed by the government forces till then. What could he do, he asked himself, what was his contribution? And that day he decided to visit, to begin with, the families of the seven youth killed till then, collect all their details, the circumstances under which they were killed, and extensively document the lives of the unarmed youth killed during 2010 civil uprising. The result is ‘Vaadi-e-Khoonaab’ (Valley of Bloodshed), an important book in Urdu which documents the case histories and stories of more than 12