The Invisible Child: War's Unspeakable Bargain

In 1991, my friend Michael Nye traveled to Northern Iraq to be a witness to the suffering of the Kurdish people who had become refugees in their own land. It was a time of war. The Kurds, after decades of harsh rule by the Iraqi government, had rebelled and were demanding self rule and independence. Iraqi soldiers, in village after village, were rounding up civilians and executing them. More than 400,000 Kurds fled their homes.

Charles is founder of Peace Village Inc., and Fields of Peace. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and served 20 years as a parish minister. A former U.S. Marine and partner in a New York City engineering firm, he is a graduate of Trinity University and Harvard University.