"I hope that the media doesn't try to stretch the story with crying relatives".
In the crowds, there were squeals of joy at reunions — and crying for relatives not found.
There are obvious reasons for this – the absence of guns, the lack of an Islamic fundamentalist headline, the fact that the refugees were faceless, paperless people without crying Western relatives.
A cousin of Mr. Abu al-Khair's, who gave her name as Warda al-Hurra, or the Free Rose, said her female relatives had described being herded to a bedroom with children, and heard male relatives crying out in pain nearby.
Some students began crying, worried about relatives.
"The people came crying, saying their relatives had died or were missing," the aide, Haji Muhammad Wali, said by telephone from Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah, Reuters reported.
The compelling film shows disturbing images of gang members shot in the streets, relatives crying over coffins, public beatings, and young men and women with faces covered by tattoos of gang logos.
In New York, the intoning of victims' names Friday was again the centerpiece of an annual rite that seemed to have retained its power despite the passage of time, with relatives crying through the rain and some still struggling to get the words out.
From that introduction, in July 2011, the emotions and stakes escalated, with visions of the woman's dead relatives crying, promises to cure her father's cancer, and, ultimately, the need to cleanse evil spirits from vast sums of the woman's cash.
We see our relatives crying, but we just tolerate it all," says Islam.
