Mongoli

On February 2, 2005, Paul McGeough wrote, in Handicapped boy who was made into a bomb,

Amar Ahmed Mohammed was 19 years old. But the fact that he had the mind of a four-year-old did not stop the insurgency's hard men as they strapped explosives to his chest and guided him to a voting centre in suburban Al-Askan.

I have several different thoughts on this:

• Amar may have been glad to have been considered for this role. Instead of being treated as a child, he was given an adult role (that of suicide bomber). He may have tried to remove the vest when the game became boring.
• The comtempt in which those of us who are below normal could well have been the motivating factor. His killers would have been normal people who think that keeping people like Amar alive is a waste of time and effort. Those people are very forward in expressing these sorts of opinions. Some of them did something about it.