Heavy toll on Iraq marriages
James Hider; 28/6/08
The collapse of Sheema Qassem’s marriage began with what she thought was teasing by her husband, a Sunni Muslim and former officer in Saddam Hussein’s army. “He would say, ‘You Shia were just waiting for Saddam to fall so you could take over’, the 39-year-old woman recalled. “I thought it was just a joke, so I said, ‘One day for you, one day for us’.” Two years later her husband is gone and she hardly sees her daughters, aged 7 and 5, who live with his parents in a violent Sunni enclave of the Triangle of Death, south of the capital. The plight of Ms Qassem is typical of many wrecked marriages in a country where years of sectarian strife have caused divorce rates to rise.
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