Imagine, just for one second, that this was your kid.
How would you be feeling about the US attack and subsequent occupation of your country right about now, 5 years on?" -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
"Ticking bomb of Iraq's forgotten refugee children"
March 15, 2008
THE children in Qawala camp are grubby, bundled up in as many clothes as their parents can find to ward off wintry temperatures in the tents on a rubbish dump in northern Iraq that they now call home. They wrap their feet in plastic bags to walk through the mud to school. Their plight is the untold story of Iraq — of families who were forced to flee for their lives when sectarian fighting between Sunnis and Shi’ites erupted in 2006 after Al-Qaeda bombed the Golden Mosque, a revered Shi’ite sanctuary in Samarra. Qawala camp, two miles outside the city of Sulaymaniyah in the north of the country, is home to 3,000 men, women and children, a tiny percentage of up to 2.5m Iraqis believed to be homeless in their own country...."
