Kanan Makiya Quotes

Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.

Kanan Makiya

• Compassion
• Boys
• Alive
• Burned
• Implication

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• Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Compassion
  • Boys
  • Alive