78-year-old Najmuddin spent 44 days searching for his son Esa's body [Mujib Mashal/Al Jazeera]
The Price Of Dying For Afghanistan -- Al Jazeera
Families forced to search for fallen kin as Afghan army fails to fulfil its promise to return dead soldiers' bodies.
Kandahar, Afghanistan - After searching for 44 days, 78-year-old Najmuddin finally found the body of his son, an Afghan army lieutenant, in a freezer in this southern Afghan city.
"I searched and searched. I asked everyone that I came across," said the old man, looking up to the sky and repeating he now had "no one but God".
His son, 24-year-old Mohamad Esa, had joined the army after he returned from five years of labouring in Iran. He died after a bullet pierced his left torso while serving in the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 215 Maiwand Corps. Despite an injury to the back of his head, his face was calm and unscathed.
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My Comment: I cannot even imagine what these families must go through.