Welcome to the Remember the Iraqi Children site! 11-year-old protesting sanctions on Iraq (pre war)

Remember the Iraqi Children ^ | April 26, 2003 | Kouthar & Marwa Al-Rawi

[BJungNan]

Welcome to the Remember the Iraqi Children site! My name is Kouthar Al-Rawi. I am 11-years old and my sister, Marwa, is 10-years old. We may be young, but we are sincere in our belief of children's rights. After visiting Iraq for over one month during June 1998 and again in October 1998, we feel we need to help speak for the innocent children.

We believe children deserve the most basic human right, which is the right to life. The right to life is being denied to innocent Iraqi children. These kids are without blame and they are not involved in any way with weapons, politics or oil.

The United Nations' Convention of the Rights of the Child, Article 6, states that children have the right to life. What makes the Iraqi children any different from any other children of the world?

The Iraqi children are being denied food, clean water and medicines. During October 1998, some 4,500-innocent Iraqi children died each month. Imagine, if you can, 150 children dying everyday. One child, under the age of 12, dies every 10 minutes in Iraq.**

Now, at the beginning of 1999, the numbers have changed. More than 6,000 children die each month. It's time someone did something to stop this abomination of human rights.

** According to UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) and WHO (World Health Organization).

My sister and I want to help stop this devastation and we need your help. You can make a difference! Please write a message or draw a picture on a postcard addressed to "Mr. President." You can even send us your "e-mail postcard." Request the end of the sanctions on the Iraqi people, for the sake of the children.

Thank you, Kouthar Al-Rawi and Marwa

We have only received 100,000 post cards. This is one-tenth of our goal. Please send us your postcards.

Kouthar and Marwa Al-Rawi
One-Million Postcards to the President Campaign
P.O. Box 1141
San Pedro, CA 90733-1141 USA

Contact us by e-mail: Kouthar & Marwa Al-Rawi
Iraqikids@aol.com

E-mail: Kouthar & Marwa Al-Rawi

At our web site, you are visitor number: 29,725

[BJungNan]

Wonder what they think now?

Link Here

[aruanan]

Wonder what they think now?

Apparently they think as little now as they did then since their site has not been updated. They're probably in denial because they thought Uday was such a kewl dude.

[BJungNan]

They're probably in denial because they thought Uday was such a kewl dude.

Perfect. ROFL

[Riley]

Anybody who actually believes that these two girls created this site, all on their own, raise your hand.

[SubMareener]

From their site:

Copyright ©1998-1999, Iraqikids
This page originated on May 17, 1998, and was last updated on 02/18/99.
For questions or comments about this web site, please send e-mail to Iraqikids 

This was a site set up to protest President XLINTOON's attacks on Iraqi!

[BJungNan]

Anybody who actually believes that these two girls created this site, all on their own, raise your hand.

You mean you don't think they wrote the copy, scanned the post cards, did the graphic layout and uploaded it. Ah, come on, these are enlightend 11- and 10-year-olds. [hands folded in lap]

[aruanan]

This was a site set up to protest President XLINTOON's attacks on Iraqi!

No, it was a site set up to protest a U.S. action on Iraq that just happened to have been initiated by Clinton. If there had been any kind of internet (like that of today) during the Gulf War and if the girls' parents could have made it believable that 2 and 3 year old girls had made up their own website, we would have heard some kind of protest out of them then too.