Nighisti Semret

Juwaher Yusuf Dept: Few, if any, knew Nighisti Semret, the middle-aged Eritrean refugee so brutally, mysteriously, stabbed to death on her way home from work earlier this week, according to The Star. Even though I personally didn t know her, you still feel a connection, said Juwaher Yusuf, 23, whose parents fled war-torn Eritrea in the 1980s. Her story is our story and in the Cabbagetown alleyway once soaked with rain and stained with blood, mourners shed tears and whispered prayers in Tigrinya for the ghost they called Nicky. But in the days since her death, local Eritreans have been searching for any fragment of the quiet refugee s story. Many say they empathize with her lonesome path to Canada, where she was determined to one day reunite her family, scattered thousands of kilometres away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.