“Let me get my right by my own hands.”

"The last time I saw Abu Bakir was at the funeral of Um Bashar after a deadly bombing that killed about 14 people in my neighborhood. Since that time, I haven’t seen him.

As I was talking to A., one of my closest friends in Baghdad on the internet, I could tell how the situation is getting worse day after day. “It’s getting really unendurable,” he told me. I asked him if any new attacks happened in the neighborhood. Sectarian killings reached our neighborhood, he said.

I asked him, who was the first victim? “Abu Bakir,” he said. I was shocked. I didn’t know what to say. I felt so angry and horrified despite the fact that I am not even in Baghdad anymore. However, my parents are still there. What if they are attacked? What if they are threatened? My friends are still there too. What if they face the same fate as Abu Bakir’s? Apparently the man wasn’t killed first, he was kidnapped."
Treasure of Baghdad