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September 19, 2008
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Becalmed Baghdad counts war's cost
The drop in violence has allowed many to think more about its effects. One recent study found that 70% of children exposed to trauma in Iraq go on to develop psychological problems.
At a park in central Baghdad, two orphans are playing.
Salah is nine years old. He was found by the police after a bomb went off. Nobody knows what happened to his family.
Saif is seven. His parents were killed in an explosion.
"I want to tell them [the bombers] it's against God's law to kill people," he tells me. "I want to ask them: why did you kill my mother and father."
He says he wants to be a policeman when he grows up, so that he can find his parents' killers and send them to prison.
Salah barely talks at all. His shaking hands tell their own story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7624811.stm
Posted by thdyck on September 19, 2008
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