Endless Beginnings...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

....An orphanage in Baghdad. 24 young boys founds laying naked in their own pool of excrements, starved, covered with feces and flies, hands tied to bare metal beds. With the "liberation", the main orphanage of Baghdad was bombed. Of course no one spoke of that one. Hundreds of children took to the streets and were trafficked in, traded in. UNICEF wrote a brief report on it but then it disappeared from their website. Trading in dollars for each child's head, like in a slave market, exported to neighboring Gulf countries as...only Allah knows as what... Heads, and more heads...Perhaps I need to write about rolling heads... A leaked autopsy report from the Iraqi ministry of Health (what an oxymoron that title is) states that Barzan Al-Tikriti's head was very slowly slit with a sharp instrument whilst his body showed bruises from kicks. They slowly severed his head, very slowly and kicked his jolting body at the same time, in another pool of blood......

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