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The treacherous landmines brought bitterness and pain to many Yemeni children, as they played with their innocence and used their childish spontaneity to catch them in their explosive traps and bleed them to death; killing many of them and leaving the others stuck into pain, fear and horror.
The landmines’ deeds to the children of Yemen are a heartbreaking issue. What do these landmines want from these innocent kids? Why do they hunt them without mercy or pity? And why do they insist on killing them or making them handicapped or forcing them to live in a state of fear?
Many questions are raised by the people who still have feelings and pity in their hearts. These children committed no crime or mischief but still, the landmines were planted to hunt them like preys with diabolical and systematic methods in which camouflage plays a poisonous role to kill these weak children.
The kid Ayyash Mohammad fell for a landmine camouflaged as a ball. He lost his limbs. The toy which this child thought would be a source of joy and fun turned into a horrific nightmare and a predator that attacked him and tore his weak body apart. Since that accident, Ayyash left playing with toys forever, and that mined ball became his last memory of playing. The poor child can’t cope with that. Ayyash accepted his horrible fate but can’t convince himself that playing is over for him.
As for the boy Hammam and his two sisters Anhar and Wijdan, their family promenade turned into a real tragedy. One of them collected nails that were in the region where they were walking. He took them home, and as he tried to discover them with his innocent curiosity a nail blew up and unveiled its true aggressive nature. The three kids were wounded; one of them lost an eye, the second lost a limb. They were all wounded and became members in the long list of the treacherous camouflaged landmines’ victims.
The kid Saleh Al Qahtani faced the same fate. A landmine exploded at him and left his heart filled with fear. His life became full of terror and anxiety.
As for the kid Nasser Rabia’, he overcame his wounds by making a wish that may be heard by the aggressors against the Yemeni children. He wished that he would be the last kid to be harmed by a landmine in Yemen. This wish reflects the bitterness felt by these weak innocent civilians in a country where landmines are planted everywhere to target them. These landmines don’t destroy just the presence of Yemen, it wrecks its future too, because these kids are tomorrow’s makers of hope, reconstruction and change.