The family of 12-year-old Hani Saadoun has been traumatized by that reality since his tortured body, mutilated by electric drills, was found on Tuesday. They had been in a state of fear since he failed to return home for lunch a day earlier.
It seems gunmen in three cars cornered him as he headed to work, helping out at his father's parking lot, Interior Ministry sources and relatives said.
On a day off from school, eager to earn some pocket money, he set off to work at his father's lot. Normally his father or older brothers would have gone with him but, for the first time, they had pressing business at home and the youngster set off alone.
Saadoun's body was found dumped in southern Baghdad's violent, mostly Sunni Arab, district of Dora. It bore the hallmarks of sectarian tit-for-tat killings that have exploded since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February.
The youngster, with a bullet hole in his head and another through the chest, was blindfold and his hands bound. He had been whipped with cables, tormented by electric drills and his body dragged through the streets behind a car.
What type of backward, stone-age mentality comes up with this? How in the world can people be so depraved as to think of it? More importantly, can we realistically hope that a society riddled with this type of behavior will ever be truly stable?
My heart goes out to the family of this child. No child deserves to be made to suffer because adults decide they can act like thugs in the name of God, revenge, or anything else. Sadly, this is the case for the people of Iraq.
I'm disgusted to share the same planet with the likes of the people who perpetrate this kind of animalistic savagery. I hope these bastards get 'drilled' by a U.S. sniper's bullet between the eyes, preferably in front of a large crowd of witnesses.
(Source: Reuters)
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