Students from Delhi University’s St Stephen’s college visiting on Monday
New Delhi: Hand-drawn tributes for the children killed in the Minab school attack came from kids of an east Delhi school on Monday at the Iranian embassy.The embassy is showcasing 28 drawings — the last time some of the Iranian children killed in the US missile strike drew.
The exhibition is titled ‘Minab Children Still Draw the Sun’ and has seen steady footfall, prompting the embassy to extend the viewing.
The exhibition opened on April 12. On April 15, the embassy reopened it till April 21. Now it will be on till April 28. The viewing is allowed from 11 am to 4 pm.On Monday, 80 students of MM Public School in Mustafabad, east Delhi, visited the exhibition. They wanted to give something as a gesture of solidarity and remembrance. So, they left their drawings. A group of students from Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College, too, went to the embassy.Among the tributes was a poster left by two girls that asked: “Warmongers, is this your target? A child, a little girl, a student?”Hargun, a student of St. Stephen’s, said: “When we got to know that the drawings of the children of Minab are exhibited here, we thought it is our responsibility to come here and write a condolence message and say that small kids should not be martyred. The American and Zionist regimes are wrong to target such small kids, who might not even know what a war is.”
The 28 drawings were found in the school bags of the kids buried in the rubble after the Feb 28 missile attack. The sheets, found in the debris of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School, were scanned and restored. Over 175 people were killed, many of them schoolchildren and their teachers.Iranian ambassador Mohammad Fathali met the children, received their drawings, and addressed other visitors. “The Indian govt and the people have supported us in this difficult time. The people of India have stood by us since these difficulties arose. Inshallah, we pray that such an incident does not occur again,” the ambassador said.Officials said nearly 60 visitors came on Sunday and 25 students from a Gurgaon school visited on Saturday.
