Slain man's family requests Canadian citizenship

Slain man's family requests Canadian citizenship
Women lost without breadwinner, brother says
Mar. 20, 2006. 11:32 AM
MURRAY BREWSTER
CANADIAN PRESS


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The price of compensating Nasrat Ali Hassan's immediate family for his accidental shooting death at a military checkpoint should start with an offer of Canadian citizenship and education, the victim's eldest brother said Monday.

"Afghanistan is too much broken," Qasimali Ali Hassan, 64, said in an interview with The Canadian Press through a translator.

"The family should be taken to Canada, where it is safe. If the children are taken to Canada for the highest education, it would be appreciated."

A formal investigation into the checkpoint shooting of Ali Hassan by a Canadian soldier has yet to assign blame, but commanders on the ground here have already begun looking into ways to compensate his relatives and to placate the local Shi'a community.

Although they have exchanged letters of condolence, military authorities have yet to meet the family to express regrets — an important formality in local culture.

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This is a it over the top even by Asian ways of thinking of compensation.