Arsema's Biblical Burial ; She Came to London Expecting Safety... Now Teenage Stabbing Victim Is Laid to Rest On an Ancient Hillside in Eritreait's Impossible for Such a Killing to Happen Here

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THE BODY of murdered London schoolgirl Arsema Dawit was taken back to her African family last week and buried in a heartbreaking ceremony on an ancient hillside where thousands came to weep and pray.

Women sobbed openly and Arsema's distraught father collapsed with grief as his daughter was lowered into her grave.

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Arsema's Biblical Burial ; She Came to London Expecting Safety... Now Teenage Stabbing Victim Is Laid to Rest On an Ancient Hillside in Eritreait's Impossible for Such a Killing to Happen Here

In this setting of almost biblical simplicity - cattle and donkeys wandered through the eucalyptus trees as four Orthodox priests intoned the requiem - an impossible question was on everyone's lips.

How did this much-loved girl, torn from her roots by the need to escape a cruel military regime in Eritrea, come to die horrifically in England, the country that had promised her a life of peace and safety? Arsema, 15, was taken to Britain by her mother five years ago.

If she had stayed in Eritrea she would have been drafted into the military during her last year at school, trained in arms and explosives and sent indefinitely t...

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