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    ‘We don’t want her to be remembered as the victim’: Kim Wall’s parents on telling her story

    In 2017, journalist Kim Wall became the story when she was murdered after boarding a submarine. Now, Kim’s parents are sharing her life and tragedy in a new book
    by Caterina Clerici Jul 04, 2020 8 minutes
    ‘Kim was always on the go, always running after the next thing ...’ Photograph: Caterina Clerici

    On a winter night in 2017, Joachim Wall was sitting in front of his daughter’s laptop at his home in Trelleborg, a town of around 45,000 and Sweden’s southernmost. He was going through thousands of pictures, trying to reorganize her archive – a task that would keep him busy for many more months.

    Suddenly, he heard a familiar ding: Kim, are you there?

    Joachim hadn’t realized that Facebook was open on one of the browser’s windows, a little green dot next to his daughter’s name, Kim Wall. As soon as he checked the message, he recognized the sender to be one of the women Kim had visited several times in Sri Lanka and then written a story about: the women fighters of the Tamil Tigers.

    After some hesitation, Joachim decided to reply: This is not Kim, it’s Kim’s father. Do you not know what happened to her?

    A no was quickly typed on the other end of the chat, and Joachim’s heart sank: although he had never been in touch with this woman before, he had to be the one to let her know that Kim was gone.

    Upon hearing the news, more dots appeared immediately as she started typing frantically: Oh no! No! Why Kim? She was my best friend!

    When Joachim told me this story a couple of weeks ago in mid-June, as I accompanied him and

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