“There are many dead people and they can't even bury them,” a fighter called Ibrahim told the Reuters news agency. “Zawiya is deserted. There's nobody on the streets. No animals, not even birds in the sky,” he said. BBC News, March 9, 2011
Raise the wail and lamentation for the mountains
the dirge for the desert pastures,
for they have been burnt, no one passes there,
the sound of flocks is heard no more.
Birds of the sky and animals
all have fled, all are gone.
Jeremiah 9 : 10
