THERE was no time to grieve when Murad Nasser Elyas’s wife, Mariam, died as they descended from Mount Sinjar in Iraq last week, desperate to escape the murderous Sunni fighters of Islamic State. Shocked at the speed with which she had succumbed — “to thirst and fear”, he said — Elyas and his eight children dug a hole in the ground and buried her..
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