by David Grayling
Friends, I was struck by the haunting beauty of this crying girl. Her name is Imam Boudella. Her father was just released from Guantanamo Bay and flown back to Bosnia.
She waited excitedly at Sarajevo Airport to greet him after years of absence. He was escorted off the plane by Bosnian Security officials and driven away in an armoured van to be interrogated. She never saw him.
Sadly, all around the world, children like Imam are crying. They may be starving. They may be in the middle of a war zone or a siege. They may be dying of aids or some other easily preventable disease. They may be victims of incest or radiation from depleted uranium. They may have lost limbs from landmines, or parents. They may be being sexually abused by pedophiles or priests. They may have drunken fathers or mothers. They may be working twelve hours a day in dirty sweat shops, being beaten. Who would know? Who would care?
This X'mas, spare a moment for them and say a little prayer. The children of our world need us.
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