The killings have fuelled anti-American sentiments in the Arab world and caused consternation among other nations.　

　　The Al-Jazeera Television reported another four children were killed in the bombing of the US-led Allied Forces over Baghdad on March 31.

　　A father was carrying his dead daughter and staggering away from heavy smoke, deep in grief. His figure looked tiny and helpless against a mushroom of black smoke from the battered complex.

　　The Al-Jazzeera Television scene, strengthened by heart-rending wail of an Iraqi boy, was a miniature of the pain and damage which the Iraqi people are suffering now in the war.

　　This tragic scene and other casualty reports have caused great qualm and anger among peace-loving people all over the world. They are concerned over the humanitarian calamities the seemingly endless war brings to Iraqi civilians, innocent children in particular.

　　"Why are those tears in your eyes, my child." Lines of Indian poet Gaganendranath Tagore said holy heaven can be found in children's eyes. But now, people see no heaven through Iraqi children's eyes, but tears, terror and mourning, and helplessness.

　　Will the war, bloody and brutal, sow seeds of hatred in their tender hearts? Will their childhood, without peace and fairy tales, cast a shadow over their future life?

　　Not only in Iraq, children in other countries suffer too. How can parents explain to their children what is happening in Iraq? In what way can they manage to tell their children that there are wars in this world besides flowers and Andersen's tales?

　　Warheads and bodies will never pave a way for peace. Strikes can only kindle more tragedies. Now, it is time for the US and its allies to put an end to their military operations in Iraq, for the sake of children's smile, for the sake of peace in Iraq, for the sake of the US and its allies'interests and for the good of the world.

　　By Du Shanguo

　　(April 3, PLA Daily)