5 Million Orphans
This is Aswat Al Iraq’s English language version of this report هيئة النزاهة تكشف عن وجود خمسة ملايين طفل عراقي يتي which I posted immediately below. That’s 5 million orphans created by the war America deliberately, cynically, and viciously, waged and continues to wage in Irak. That is 5 million children both of whose parents are dead. That is the figure the green zone government admits to, the real figure is a lot higher as many orphans are taken in by relatives and not registered, nor does the figure include the children with “only” one parent dead.
There will be no further postings tonight.
Khalil.
5 million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Saturday , 15 /12 /2007 Time 6:32:11
Baghdad, Dec 15, (VOI) – Iraq’s anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in constant contact with Iraq’s parentless children.
“The government should set up an institutional or legislative program to help the Iraqi orphans. Iraqi is an oil-rich country and it is not acceptable that its orphans remain groaning in this tragedy,” the anti-corruption board chief, Moussa Faraj, said during a conference in Baghdad dedicated to orphans in Iraq.
“The board on its own cannot meet the Iraqi orphans’ needs, but there should be an organization or even a ministry to provide care for orphans,” he said.
The Iraqi parliament’s women & family committee had proposed a draft law to set up a fund for the orphans.
During the conference, Wijdan Salem Mikhail, the Iraqi minister of human rights, said in a speech that the phenomenon “is one of the most passive things that grew immensely during the past few years due to destructive wars and unbridled violence in the country to unprecedented heights.”
“These factors have logically caused the number of widows and orphans to greatly increase,” she said.
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I will have to agree with you in every word
that you have said that someone needs to do something for these orphans in Iraq and in every where else in this world. There are orphans in U.S.A. and everywhere in this world who are hungry and need our help to survive. I will pray for them for startes and when I graduate I will find a way to help them become hopeful and feel real love.
A plane crashes,
Time seems to stop,
People look up in a daze,
The twin towers are gone,
People screaming, chaos,
People jumping from above,
Fire and smoke seems to be everywhere.
Relatives of the dead mourn,
Friends of lost ones cry,
Communities mourn,
A nation comes together,
A country prays holding hands.
9/11 a horrific day,
But a time to remember,
Who we are.
This poem vivadly shows what happened on September 11, 2001. The planes that crashed into these building were hijacked by terrorists from Iraq and areas around there. A lot of people died that day and more were injured. The lives of relatives would never be the same. The lives of the injured would never be the same as well. The lost ones who would never return home to their loved ones, never kiss their wife, husband, and children again. Lives were ruined that day including children.
My heart is torn at the though of how many children in Iraq have lost both of their parents in this war and long to hug them and tell them that people love them and to give them a place to go and to be loved, but right now I cannot. Soon though I will go all over the world helping all the orphans by loving them, giving them food, medical care, and a friend to trust; this though might not happen as soon as I would like since I am still young and have not had the proper education to do so as in medical education, but hopefuly after I have become an emergency medical technician I will do so.
One thing you have to understand is that there are orphans all over this world who need help so I will go first to the places closer to where I am and maybe you could somehow form a special team to help you to show love to the orphans close to you. There is a saying that Americans say that which ” Two heads are better than one”. This saying means that two people work better than one person does that is all by himself.
Your friend,
Ethan Romero
P.S. Good luck and God Bless
“The planes that crashed into these building were hijacked by terrorists from Iraq…”
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We share your puzzlement Ed in Socal there were no Irakis on those planes. Mostly they were from Saudi Arabia - one of America´s allies. With allies like thst you do not need enemies but that doesn´t stop the USA from creating them were none existed before …..