text: Carsten Theumer

The Memento – Iraq December 2006 medal

The medal references a December 2006 news report from Iraq.
A bomb strike had killed three children, severely injuring two others;
the bomb had been hidden inside a stuffed toy.
To me, this insidious and perfidious targeted attack on children shows one of the unimaginably abysmal and dehumanised sides of war in our time.