Fazlullah made one of his strangest announcements: He declared war on the government and called for people to rise up in violence. The peace treaty he had signed became nothing more than a memory. But the government ignored him, like an annoying fly. And it ignored us, too, the people in Swat who were under his thumb. We were angry with our government and angry with these terrorists for trying to ruin our way of life, but my father said our family should do its best to ignore them as well.
