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Children of war: the generation traumatised by violence in Iraq | Iraq

Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 7:06 AM EST
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Parents, teachers and doctors contacted by the Guardian over the past three months cite a litany of distress signals sent out by young people in their care - from nightmares and bedwetting to withdrawal, muteness, panic attacks and violence towards other children, sometimes even to their own parents.

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Good find, Irma. I misread and thought this was going to be about 'Children of Men' although the movie is not too far off the point of this article. These children grow up and they are permanently affected. How cheap does life become?

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