“Family Disputes”

By Rezvan Moghadam
On Friday, November 29, 2024, in one of the quiet neighborhoods of Ilam, cries from a
house shattered the silence of the alley. No one imagined these cries would mark the
final moments of a 46-year-old woman’s life—a woman whose name would vanish
forever amidst the vague term “family disputes.”
That day, she was brutally attacked by her husband with multiple knife wounds. The
tragic scene will remain etched in the minds of neighbors forever. Rescuers raced
against time to save her, but the severity of her injuries was beyond what even the best
doctors could mend. Death became the final chapter of her story—a story neither
named in the headlines nor recounted anywhere else.
The killer, her husband, surrendered to the police after committing the crime and
casually stated, “Family disputes.” Two words that seemed intended to explain away the
tragedy but, in reality, concealed the deeper and darker causes behind such violence.
The identities of both the victim and the perpetrator were never revealed. Perhaps this
silence, too, is part of the pattern—a silence justified as “personal matters” or “family
disputes,” leaving the victims, often women, forgotten forever.
This is but one account of the violence that, cloaked in silence and systemic neglect,
continues to claim lives. The story of a woman who, had her voice been heard, had she
sought help and been supported, might still be alive today.

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