This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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It has been almost twenty-four hours since 19-year-old Hamid Aminzada was stabbed to death at his high school, but his traumatized family are pleading still the authorities to return his body so they can say goodbye and bury him. According to Aminzada’s father, Sabir, he’s now too scared to let his other children go to school.
Representatives of the Toronto District School Board visited the family earlier in the day, but Sabir claims that the visit didn’t lessen his concerns about safety at school. Sabir’s cousin who helped him as a translator, Zahira Sadat, explained that “he sent his son to school for protection. He was expecting that.” Aminzada’s large Afghan family had gathered at their apartment on Wednesday to grieve the death of the young teen who had moved to Canada from Pakistan two years ago. Aminzada was enrolled at nearby North Albion Collegiate Institute, where he was stabbed on Tuesday and later passed away at Humber River Hospital.
Sadat alleged that “we are all speechless, from a 2-year-old kid to a 70-year-old grandma,” adding that “we just don’t know what to say, what to do, how to react. We need ourselves to be together.” She added that Afghan tradition implies that Aminzada should be buried as soon as possible. So Sadat urged that police have told the family the body will be investigated for up to 72 hours but “72 hours would be like 72 years.” Sadat added that “the sooner he will be released, the more peaceful we will be… He needs to be close to the family at this point.”
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