Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005. From a letter by Heshu Yones, a sixteen-year-old Iraqi Kurd who was planning to run away from her family home in London. On October 12, 2002, Yones’s father repeatedly stabbed her and slit her throat, because he believed that she was dating a non-Muslim and had become too “Westernized.” Abdalla Yones is currently serving a life sentence for murder. Originally from Harper's Magazine, January 2004.