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"Dear Dad" - Heartfelt Remembrance from Son of Baghdad Bombing Victim

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In a special ceremony to commemorate the World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations Office in Geneva gathered today survivors and family members of victims who lost their lives in the service of peace in Baghdad, Algiers and elsewhere.
This year’s commemoration marks 15 years since the terrorist attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq in which 22 UN staff died and hundreds were injured. This horrible act was the start of increasingly violent attacks against the UN and other organizations, taking the lives of hundreds of humanitarian workers and other colleagues.
Mattia-Sélim Kanaan, who was a three weeks old baby when his father Jean-Sélim Kanaan died in the bombing of the UN in Baghdad, addressed for the first time the audience. He said that “in these years, I never liked news about terrorist attacks. It made me feel outraged and sad for other families. Terrorists are not brave and have no heart. There is no courage in killing people that are unarmed. Despite the pain that sometimes I feel, what I learned since childhood is that life is stronger than anything, including bombs and fanatic ideologies”.
World Humanitarian Day, designated by the UN General Assembly to be observed on 19 August, remembers aid workers who paid the utmost sacrifice in the line of duty and pays tribute to those who deliver aid to vulnerable communities in some of the world’s most dangerous crises.
Screenshot Credit: Photo by UN Geneva/Violaine Martin
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