Every time I try to convince myself that is still ok to work and live in iraq I find myself wrong … just a few days ago I was in top of my house roof trying to fix the water tank it was raining a bit and suddenly clashes broke in my neighborhood in western Baghdad. I was halfway done but felt the sound of the bullets just a few meters away from my face and I said to myself what if I die is it worth dieing because I was fixing my water tank instead of dieing bravely defending my house or my country. We are gradually forgetting the happiness that we had before and now all we remembers is the everyday sad news. Today one of my colleagues in the bureau was crying because one of his best friend was kidnapped by al QAIDA and I am afraid it will be my turn one day … and not to forget the unbelievable numbers of anonymous dead bodies that found in Baghdad which the average is 50 dead bodies daily.
My son is 4 years old and I don’t want him to grow up in such an environment specially when he stopped going to school 4 months ago and now he is not getting any kind of education because of the bad security in my neighborhood and Baghdad in general. it is sad because I have been working in journalism for almost 3 years and yet I have to leave everything behind and find another life for the sake of my wife and two children. I hope one day I can return back to my country to find security and good life.
What do you think must be done by political leaders in Iraq and the US to change the situation in Iraq? Can it be salvaged?
Posted by: TuiMel | January 13, 2007 at 03:18 PM