الجنوبيون: شعب يعشق الموت والدماء

Quote: Living so intimately with death has grave effects on young children. In study of young children whose older siblings had been victims of homicide, the surviving siblings show symptoms of depression, anxiety, psychosocial impairment and post-traumatic stress disorder (Freeman, Shaffer, & smith 1996). These symptoms are similar to those observed in young children in situation of political and military violence – for example, in Palestine children in the occupied West Bank (Baker, 1990) and in children in South Africa townships during apartheid (Magwaza, Kilian, Peterson, & Pillay, 1993). Perhaps the label “war zone” is an appropriate one for violent communities.