The older child, aged five, was in a similar condition, yet when I bent to stroke the pathetic, puffy little face, damp with perspiration, a small hand grabbed mine and he squeezed with all his might. I knew then that it is possible to die of shame. A silent holocaust in the name of the UN, these numbers are similar to those lost in Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia. It is three times the population of Kuwait in small lives lost. Inflation is stratospheric.
Families eat in rotation so that there is a little more for the others.
A new medical diagnosis has manifested itself. These babies become chronically malnourished, terribly bloated and almost all die. Doctors call them the 'sugar babies'. The embargo has meant the death of childhood for those who do survive. Most children since the embargo have never tasted chocolate - on a recent visit I bought two chocolate bars and tubes of sweets for a child.