The Highway of Tears…

25 Sep

Posted by: Rukhsana Khan in: cultures, history

is a stretch of highway 16 that I drove between Prince Rupert and a small town called Terrace B.C.

Actually it might be further, but I specifically remember that stretch of road.

One of the most beautiful areas of North America, I bet.

Today they discovered one of the killers of two or three of the sixteen girls that were murdered on that stretch of highway.

He died in prison in 2007.

But what about the other murdered girls.

We don’t have a lot of statistics in North America about all the men, women and children who go missing do we?

We see pictures on milk cartons and for a few days after a disappearance the victims’ families appeal on T.V. but then they fade away.

A young Muslim man went missing not far from where I live.

It was several years ago. We still haven’t heard anything of what happened to him.

It’s the reason I pick my son up whenever he’s working late.

There’s a dark side to society.

And we tend to forget it.

*shiver*

Umm Eesa
27|Sep|2012 1

Which man? Was he the one who was “taken at gunpoint” and he called his cousin to beg for help? Was he the one who faked his own kidnapping and was found at a masjid near Niagara Falls? The community organized a huge search party near Neilson Park. When he was caught by police in Niagara and the people found out the Imam of IF said what he did was “unforgivable.” That man?
Rukhsana Khan
27|Sep|2012 2

No there was another man, who has not been found at all.

He was the son of one of the local Islamic bookstore owners. It’s very sad.

I remember the incident you’re talking about. That guy was in trouble so he faked his disappearance and was caught. But the reason why the Muslim community freaked out–and I remember feeling quite upset when I heard about this guy’s disappearance too–was because it was a feeling of ‘Not again!’.

Unfortunately they still haven’t found the original missing guy. He was in his twenties when he disappeared and the longer he stays missing the more it seems he came to an unfortunate end.