Pelos olhos e pelas mãos das crianças

Taha, Age 13 or 14
“In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planes. We were all looking, not imagining about bombing. Then they began the bombing. The first bomb [landed] in our garden, then four bombs at once in the garden. The bombs killed six people, including a young boy, a boy carried by his mother, and a girl. In another place in the garden a women was carrying her baby son—she was killed, not him. Now my nights are hard because I feel frightened. We became homeless. I cannot forget the bad images of the burning houses and fleeing at night because our village was burned…”

O Human Rights Watch (HRW) apresentou uma série de desenhos feitos pelas crianças vítimas inocentes do conflito no Darfour, na fronteira entre o Chad e o Sudão. Em Fevereiro de 2005, Annie Sparrow e Olivier Bercault, ambos investigadores do HRW, visitaram a zona. Tal como o fazem nos seus escritórios, enquanto conversavam com os pais, deram papel e lápis às crianças, para que desenhassem o que quisessem. Os desenhos e, principalmente, a sua descrição, estão aqui. Dispensam comentários.
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