The Iraqi Women's League has started a new campaign demanding that Iraq's government and parliament take action to protect Iraq's children. 
The danger which threatens Iraq's childhood, in its present and future, has become greater than ever before. The devastation inflicted on children by the wars and militarization of society by the dictatorship, was further aggravated by occupation. As a result of war and terrorism, in addition to the intensified struggle among the forces fighting over power and wealth, the suffering of children has been exacerbated on all levels. ...
Poverty has forced families to make their children leave school and seek food in waste dumps, work as street vendors or turn into beggars. Children toiling to earn a living has become a commonplace scene in the streets of Iraq. Under these tragic conditions, children are subjected to murder, kidnapping and rape, in addition to being exploited in acts of terrorism. ...
400 children become orphans every day ...
The overall tragic situation of children in Iraq makes them among the most miserable children in the world. ...
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And an Iraqi writer in Baghdad reports:
Recent statistics ... reveal that the number of orphaned Iraqi children has reached 4-5 million and that there are some 500,000 street children. ...
A further study conducted for the UNDP [United Nations Development Program] by the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, found that “acute malnutrition among Iraqi children has almost doubled since the US invasion despite UN efforts.” The study based on a survey of 22,000 Iraqi homes said that approximately 400,000 Iraqi children now suffer from malnutrition and said that acute malnutrition has increased to 7.7 percent since March 2003 for those aged between six months and five years.
The horrible legacy of the war based on lies.
1 comments:
And we wonder where terrorists come from - how could they grow up to be anything else? Even from a completely heartless, political view (from a capitalist's eyes) this is just bad policy. What happens when these children grow up to hate us even more than their fathers did?
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