Sunday, May 08, 2011

DO YOU REMEMBER THAT PICTURE OF THE LITTLE GIRL?

I originally posted this back in 2005:


She was 5 years old then and is now 12 and scarred by the event and the subsequent brutality as a result of Pres. Bush's immoral war. This is a picture of her looking for the 1st time at the image above:


The story in the New York Times is just shattering:
The pains of war have been visited on thousands of Iraqis, but even here Samar’s story stands apart. Three years after her parents were killed, her brother Rakan died when an insurgent attack badly damaged the house where she lives now. Rakan had been seriously wounded in the shooting that killed their parents, and he was sent to Boston for treatment after Mr. Hondros’s photos were published. An American aid worker, Marla Ruzicka, who helped arrange for Rakan’s treatment, was herself later killed in a car bomb in Baghdad.

“I’ve taken them many times to the hospital, where they get pills” for emotional problems, Mr. Ali said. “All of them take pills.”

He says Samar’s 8-year-old brother, Muhammad, talks to himself when he is alone. “When we go out and see a family, they get sad,” he said. Sometimes he finds the children in a room together, crying. “When they remember the accident, it’s like they just died.”

Near the end of the interview, she pointed to a family photograph on the wall. “I always dream about my father and mother and brother,” she said.
UPDATE: You can find more pictures of that terrible night at BagNews Notes.

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