no child left behind... or unharmed
Foreign Policy editors look at the very real problem of children in the Iraq and how absolutely fucked up they are becoming from the incredible trauma they are exposed to every day. while the effects of trauma are fairly well-documented in adults, children are often forgotten as this CNN article shows.
I wonder why they aren't greeting us as liberators anymore?
She was kidnapped outside her school in the Sunni neighborhood of Al Mansour. She says she was held for nine days in a windowless room with 20 other girls.When one girl's family didn't pay for her release, the abductors raped and killed her. Zaman says she was beaten and forced to sleep next to the girl's dead body. Zaman's family says it paid $20,000 for her release.
The 16-year-old now suffers from deep depression. She screams and cries in the middle of the night. Her nightmares are so intense she's too afraid to sleep.
