{"id":340158,"date":"2023-03-15T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/?p=340158"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:54:39","slug":"iraqs-children-of-war-shelling-death-and-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/en\/other-news\/2023-03-15\/iraqs-children-of-war-shelling-death-and-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s children of war: shelling, death and chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Carlos Grau Sivera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baghdad (EFE).- Twenty years after the United States&#8217; invasion of Iraq, most young people share traumatic memories of deafening explosions, corpses littering Baghdad streets and living in fear they would never see their parents again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The invasion left the country full of orphans. These young people now can&#8217;t even remember their father&#8217;s face,&#8221; says Ali, one of many young Iraqis who grew up amid shelling, death and chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old lost four of his uncles and his wife lost her father in the violent aftermath of the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I always have to remind my wife that her father was a fantastic person because she doesn&#8217;t recall anything about him. This is what the Americans took from her,&#8221; Ali, who like most who spoke to Efe, preferred not to give his surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there is no official civilian death toll, several studies have reported that anywhere between 100,000 and half a million people were killed in the invasion and subsequent war in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"media-content-img\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rss-efe267a57228bee4faa2b5c50feab865de4fd5b109ew.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb size-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb\" alt=\"Ali, 29, hand paints temporary tattoos on Al Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, Iraq, 15 March 2023. EFE\/Carles Grau Sivera\n\" data-description=\"Ali, 29, hand paints temporary tattoos on Al Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, Iraq, 15 March 2023. EFE\/Carles Grau Sivera\n\" data-image-title=\"Imagen-Iraq\u2019s children of war: shelling, death and chaos\" data-attachment-id=\"340172\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/imagen-iraqs-children-of-war-shelling-death-and-chaos-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rss-efe267a57228bee4faa2b5c50feab865de4fd5b109ew.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1280\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-childhood-scarred-by-violence\">CHILDHOOD SCARRED BY VIOLENCE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Baghdad\u2019s atmospheric Al Mutanabbi street, which houses a huge open-air bookstore, Ali hand paints temporary tattoos using a brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young client approaches him and chooses to stamp an AK-47 assault rifle in the middle of his arm because &#8220;it is what we know,&#8221; he tells Efe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2003 US invasion of Iraq unleashed violence and chaos, led to clashes between Iraqi militias and US troops, and later devolved into a sectarian civil war that spiraled between 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ours was a childhood that was far from innocent. We couldn&#8217;t go out on the streets or have good food, we saw people die every day before our eyes,&#8221; Alaa, 28, tells Efe from a humble cafe in downtown Baghdad, where he has met his friends to smoke a shisha pipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His classmates listen to him speak carefully and nod when the young man says that, at the age of eight, his life consisted of &#8220;watching how people were being murdered in the streets every day&#8221; under a relentless &#8220;rain of rockets&#8221; targeting the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood, gunfire and car bombs at all hours became the norm for children who would all too often get a call or visit informing them that one of their relatives had died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarmad, 27, recalls that when US soldiers stormed Baghdad in early April 2003 &#8220;they were good to the children, giving them sweets and playing&#8221; with them \u2013 acts, he says, that were a &#8220;way to clean up their crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yes, they killed Saddam (Hussein), but they left us in a worse situation. 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