Children of Irumbuchola pray for peace in Lebanon/post letters to Israel

From Irumbuchola, for peace in Lebanon

Abdul Latheef Naha

SEEKING PEACE: Children of A.U.P. School posting letters to Israel's Ambassador in New Delhi, David Danieli.

MALAPPURAM: A primary school in a remote village of Malappuram district is observing an `anti-war week' even as Israel continues to pound targets in Lebanon and Gaza.

The children of A.U.P. School at Irumbuchola in A.R. Nagar panchayat have written to Israel's Ambassador in New Delhi, David Danieli, pleading him to end the battles in Lebanon and Gaza.

In the letters sent en mass, the children wrote: "Your Excellency, can you insist to stop killings of our friends of West Asia?... with hot tears."

When hundreds of children approached the nearest mail box to post their letters in an orderly fashion, local residents watched in curiosity and appreciation. "Our kids are doing what we didn't think of," said one of them.

Besides raising anti-war slogans on the campus, the children flew 1,000 Sadako paper cranes with peace written on their wings. "This is our cry; this is our prayer: Peace in the world," the children said, remembering Sadako Sasaki, the Japanese girl who taught the world how peace was important through her symbolic paper cranes.

It also gave children an opportunity to learn what Sadako did for world peace. Their teachers explained to them not only about Sadako but about folded paper cranes as well.


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http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/10/stories/2006081007860300.htm
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In the late 90's Israeli kids and Palestinian kids would gather at a summer camp in Maine. They would live together for a couple weeks, and 60 Minutes did a show about what they learned and how hopeful the future was for that generation. It was so moving, I can still see them all in their grass green "Seeds of Peace" T shirts. Many are now dead.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/101000-02.htm

weekend showing "Seeds of Peace" kids in Northern Lebanon working together with Israeli kids and photos of them at a camp. It was one of those little segments they do to try to make CNN seem normal...but it was nice to see.

I agree with some of these kids are probably dead now. We have to hope that things get better and that one day "seeds of peace" will flower. Given what so many kids are going through the world over and here with Katrina and floods and drought, I have a feeling a generation will grow up saying "NO MORE KILLING, NO MORE NEGLECT, NO MORE OF THIS! and they will work to have peace. I don't want to look at a darker side for the future of these kids..

asked but PEACE!