DEATH OF A HERO
Ahmed Shah Massud
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Tribute to
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FAREWELL MARJAN...
Marjan, the one-eyed lone
lion is no longer the king of
Kabul zoo
PICTURES from the grenade attack!
Dear Visitors, these next pages are a heartful tribute to Maria Grazia Cutuli, sweetest friend, valued travelmate and skillful writer for Corriere della Sera, major italian newspaper, who was ambushed and killed by unknown assailants on November 19 2001, while traveling from Jalalabad to Kabul (Afghanistan) together with colleagues Julio Fuentes (spanish newspaper El Mundo), Harry Burton and Hazizullah Haidari (cameraman and photographer, Reuters).
>PICTURE GALLERY
>AUDIO CLIP her last report from Peshawar [ Corriere.it ]
>VIDEO recovering the journalists' bodies [New York Times - Associated Press]
How colleagues journalist and friends >REMEMBER her
Pages from italian and international >PRESS
>REPORTS about the ambush
>STORIES we published >TOGETHER (her writings, my pictures)
>ALL THE STORIES
I'm trying to make available ALL THE STORIES written by Maria Grazia Cutuli.
Big kudos to publishers Corriere della Sera-RCS and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, for allowing me to post here all the stories they hold copyrights for.
OUR STORIES: HER WRITINGS, MY PICTURES

AFGHANISTAN
Le Rose di Kabul (1995)
Intervista col Comandante Massud (1995)
Io, Donna Giornalista, ho incontrato i Talebani (1996)
La Guerra delle Donne di Kabul (1997)
Bamiyan, la Valle dei Fantasmi (2001)
Nel Ventre di Kabul, Capitale di Macerie (2001)
Jalalabad «Libera» Resta una Prigione avvolta dal Burqa (2001)

PAKISTAN
Darah, La Città Delle Armi (1995)

EX-JUGOSLAVIA
E' pace triste a Sarajevo (1996)
Jasminka, i diavoli della porta accanto (1996)

RWANDA
Gitagata, la Prigione dei Bambini (1998)
Virunga, il Parco delle Nebbie (1998)
Il futuro è una Montagna di Lamiera (1998)
I Bambini di Madame Carr (1998)
Rwanda, il Paese degli Orfani (1998)
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Maria Grazia Cutuli
sketch courtesy and © F.Sironi
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Farewell, good ol' Marjan...
The lone king of Kabul zoo succumbs to his age at 48, after surviving years and years of deprivations and symbolizing to kabulis the spirit of resiliency itself
Well.....that's sad news, indeed. To my eyes, Marjan symbolized hope.  However, in thinking about that dear old lion's death I choose to believe that when he heard the swoosh of kites flying over Kabul, heard the roars from the football stadium, experienced the renewed sounds of music in the air and heard the click-click of chess pieces being moved around chessboards....well, the old guy knew that there was plenty of hope around and it was okay for him to let go and fly off, amid kite strings, to wherever it is the spirits of animals go.
Peace to you Marjan and peace to Afghanistan.
[Diana Smith, via the Internet]
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