Monday, July 31, 2006

Qana's Crime=Baghdad's Amiriya Shelter Crime

"The men were crying for more help to evacuate the destroyed building. Their calls were accompanied by tears and cries but in vain. The shelter refugees have already died in one of the most brutal Israeli attacks. Qana Crime, a second one, killed at least 57 people in an Israeli attack on the village Sunday, 37 of them children, their bodies frozen in the angles that only death can bring.

The crime's TV footage and pictures posted on the internet reminded Iraqis with a similar crime happened in 1991 when the U.S. decided to punish Saddam for his invasion to Kuwait by killing his country's civilians. Amiriya Shelter crime was never forgotten. On February 13, 1991 at 4 in the morning it was hit by two American bombs, which incinerated the building, including all but ten of the 400 women and children seeking refuge inside of it. Despite severe looting to the shelter after the U.S.-led invasion, pictures of many of the victims remain, which includes several entire families who died in the slaughter. Shadows of women who died have been burned into the walls, similar to the infamous shadow of a man flash-imprinted into concrete as he was vaporized by the atomic bomb of Hiroshima."
Treasure of Baghdad

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