MidEast Dispatches: Child Victims of Violence
My good friend, independent American journalist Dahr Jamail sent this latest dispatch. It contains text and photos he received from a doctor friend in Baghdad, depicting some of the innocent children who are victims of Iraq's terrible violence:
December 14, 2006
Child Victims of Violence
Here is the text and photos I just received from a doctor friend in Baghdad:
"This is 20 month-old Iraqi baby girl, who was severely injured and mutilated, in a blast by a car bomb in Al-Sadr City 21 days ago,she lost her two eyes.
"Her name is Shams-means sun in Arabic-... well not anymore, her mother was killed during the accident. Shams lies now in surgical specialty hospital in Baghdad, and as we live in these terrible conditions in Baghdad she has not much chance to get any proper medical care...
"She is an innocent element amid this turmoil. I have a kid almost the same age and I feel aching pain inside for her. Shams was sent for my consulatation for her but I could do nothing. If she could make it she would live with a broken soul forever. Who could bring back her cherubic childish smile again? I hope that the criminal who did this sees part of his accomplishment."
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posted by Annamarie at
1:06 PM
3 comment(s):
Wow. What can one even say about this? It is so heart-wrenching. :(
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Anonymous, at
3:40 PM
Yes, indeed it is. In their bloodlust for 'black gold', Bush and his neocons have wreaked unimagineable havoc upon a long-suffering nation... while the rest of the world sits by complacently and the newly elected Democrats are squabbling about 'gradual troop withdrawal'. They are all culpable in this tragedy... We, too, are culpable for not doing enough to end this illegal war and occupation.
By
Annamarie, at
5:10 PM
Yes, indeed it is. In their bloodlust for 'black gold', Bush and his neocons have wreaked unimagineable havoc upon a long-suffering nation... while the rest of the world sits by complacently and the newly elected Democrats are squabbling about 'gradual troop withdrawal'. They are all culpable in this tragedy... We, too, are culpable for not doing enough to end this illegal war and occupation.
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Annamarie, at
5:13 PM
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