"Humanitarian?" The Iraqi boy might query, and then ask, "So they're happy now? Well, they're all very rich. Maybe they'd buy my drawing?" The boy says.
Stop the War Coalition
3 February 2013
Video: An Iraqi Child. Words by Heathcote Williams. Narration and montage by Alan Cox. (5 mins)
An Iraqi child
Words by Heathcote Williams
Video and narration by Alan Cox
An Iraqi child
Is drawing bombers, like those
Which nearly killed him.
The bombs have left his face
Swollen with fierce injuries –
Marks of angry pain.
He draws the bombers,
Though his arm and some fingers
Are amputated.
