Mohammad Zaman Shaikh woke up on Christmas Day 2011 feeling sick and uneasy. He had slept badly but couldn't say precisely why. All he knew was that something wasn't right.
When, at 10am that morning, the police knocked on the door of the family home in Rochdale with the news that his 32-year-old son, Khuram, had been murdered in Sri Lanka, Zaman initially assumed they had made a mistake.
It seemed unlikely that his youngest son, a rehabilitation programme manager with the International Committee of the Red Cross, could have died in a hotel at the seaside resort of Tangalle. He had, after all, worked in some of the most dangerous and desolate places on earth, from North Korea to Ethiopia, and had gone to Sri Lanka to relax with his girlfriend after a stint fitting prosthetic limbs in Gaza.
After a little while, though, Zaman's certainty began to evaporate.
"I remember my heart beginning to beat faster and faster and my eyes began to fill up as I started to think that the police information could be correct," he says. "When they told Khuram's mother, she screamed and cried hysterically, then she fell to the floor and fainted." Full story...
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When, at 10am that morning, the police knocked on the door of the family home in Rochdale with the news that his 32-year-old son, Khuram, had been murdered in Sri Lanka, Zaman initially assumed they had made a mistake.
It seemed unlikely that his youngest son, a rehabilitation programme manager with the International Committee of the Red Cross, could have died in a hotel at the seaside resort of Tangalle. He had, after all, worked in some of the most dangerous and desolate places on earth, from North Korea to Ethiopia, and had gone to Sri Lanka to relax with his girlfriend after a stint fitting prosthetic limbs in Gaza.
After a little while, though, Zaman's certainty began to evaporate.
"I remember my heart beginning to beat faster and faster and my eyes began to fill up as I started to think that the police information could be correct," he says. "When they told Khuram's mother, she screamed and cried hysterically, then she fell to the floor and fainted." Full story...
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