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This just in from Una Moore at U.N. Dispatch:
Prominent human rights advocate Hamida Barmaki and her entire family were among at least 14 people killed when a Taliban suicide bomber blew up a crowded supermarket in Kabul on Friday.
Barmaki was a commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, a passionate activist for the rights of Afghanistan’s women and children, and a law professor at Kabul University. She was killed with her husband, Massoud Yama, a doctor, and their four young children.
Afghanistan’s community of human rights defenders is reeling.
This is horrible news. The very people we need to rebuild that country are gone. A tremendous loss.
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A bitter blow for a beleaguered country.