Quotation of the Week
“The bombing was a terrible time. How would you feel? We were all crowded together in one room. If anything hit our house, we wanted to know where everyone was. We wanted to be able to get to each other. We huddled together and waited to die. Overhead we heard the aircraft, felt the ground shake, heard the world around us shaking.
People watch war in the movies and they think they know what it’s like. They don’t know. If they knew they wouldn’t allow it to happen. Only very sick, bad people would want to make war”
- Hibba, aged 16. An Iraqi refugee now living in Jordan. Her family left Iraq in July 2003 when she was 10. From “Children of War – Iraqi children speak” by Deborah Ellis.
Tags: children & maternity, Iraq, Middle East, quotations
