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Burnt children after a NATO bomb attack. Their disfigured faces are the real face of war
Lashkargah,  31 October 2006. I don’t know their names, I don’t even know their age. They weren’t in condition to talk.
They are five “presumed  Taliban” arrived on Tuesday to the Emergency hospital in Lashkargah, placed in south Afghanistan. They are coming from the Kajaki area, in the eastern land of Helmand province, they travelled for hours through the dust of the desert. But to be arrived is just a great fortune.
 
Piccola vittima delle bombe Nato (© M.Notarianni/PeaceReporter) The man who brought them here told us that  the bombs started falling  on their settlement  just Monday evening .Two of the five “presumed talebans” (or talebans whenever  there is time to disguise them) are his own sons.
The three remaining ones  are kuchi children, the nomads of Afghanistan. They were brought by their older sister. She doesn’t have the words to tell their names and their age. She doesn’t even  have the words to scream her anger against the lot, the destiny ,God and maybe against all the metal monsters which wing  above Afghanistan and let falling their devices to spy the houses, the settlements and the people lives, in the name of holy war against terrorism ;the same war  George
W. Bush tells he continues on behalf of God.
The children don’t moan when the tweezers remove the burnt skin from their bodies. Even not a wail. Only their eyes follow the faces of  nurses and doctors around them and they are looked after  with real  care.
 
l'area colpita dai bombardamenti Isaf The editorial staff of  Peacereporter  in Milan, let me know that there aren’t news about this attack in the “civilised world”. And tomorrow probably there will be not.
Everyday arrive “presumed talebans” from far away countries and settlements  to the Emergency hospital, and nobody knows about them. It doesn’t exist the counting of the dead. They don’t get the NATO honours and apologies.
They are regarded as “accidents”. They are concealed in a criminal way by “the big circus of the information“ which sends its correspondents to follow the tracks of this and that occidental vanished person, but doesn’t make a move or even turn its face to report  what happens everyday in Afghanistan: dozens , hundreds of children like those burnt  alive by our humanitarian operation.
 
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