“I have to bury him.” Fearing that her male relatives would be a likelier target for marauding soldiers and looters, she decided to take responsibility for the burial. The traditions of Sebit’s Bari tribe dictate that dead bodies are washed, dressed in white and buried the same day. Male relatives must dig a deep grave and place the body sideways in an even deeper, narrow slit at the bottom. Just a couple of kilometres down the road, dozens of unidentified bodies wrapped in body bags were lowered into a mass grave. “I wouldn’t be comfortable knowing he was buried in that big grave together with the others,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2016 06:00 UTC