GAYA FERNANDO
It is the 10th Regrettable Anniversary of the Iraq War. The above image is credited to Gio McCluskey
Reading this amazing BBC piece Marwa’s Story, many sentences stood out and among them:
“There are no official figures for the civilian casualties of the war because the Americans and the British didn’t collate them and the Iraqi authorities couldn’t. But one estimate suggests that more than 2,200 Iraqis were killed in the week that Marwa was injured.”
I like the ring of Regrettable Anniversary: it’s a phrase that can be easily relevant to ‘our war’ though we have no date for the declaration of war. [Read more…]