My thanks to Proletarian Poetry.
There are so many deaths in Syria that the United Nations stopped counting in 2014 because it could no longer rely on its own data. According to the pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights, 222,114 civilians had been killed between March 2011 and September 2018
“I drew a sad child because my brother died. When I am sad I draw.” (11 year old girl, internally displaced in Iraq)
There have been an estimated 85,000 child deaths in Yemen over the past three years due to famine. ‘For children under the age of five this situation is proving a death sentence’ (Bhanu Bhatnagar, Save the Children)
Child casualties for 2017 in Afghanistan stood at 3,179 (861 killed and 2,318 injured) – a 10% drop from 2016.
‘We cannot sleep day and night due to the frightening sounds of firing,’ an 11-year-old girl told…
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