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Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010 9:21 AM (EST+7)

RAMALLAH, August 18 (JMCC) - The Independent traces the battle of the father of slain Palestinian girl Abir Araminin his search for justice.

Yesterday he had the satisfaction of knowing that his three-year fight to do just that had been vindicated by a judge's ruling that Abir Aramin had indeed been shot dead by a border policeman with a rubber bullet, that the killing was totally unjustifiable and that the state should pay her family compensation.

It had not been easy. Abir, described by teachers as a lovely model student, was fatally wounded in January 2007 as she walked down the street with her sister and two friends after buying sweets in a shop across the road from her school in the West Bank village of Anata at the end of a maths exam.

Read the full account at the Independent...
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