Dear Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan :

 Dear who seeks justice for all, I am writing you this letter from the province of Khuzestan, in the region of Ahwaz located in south western Iran. Ahwaz is a land of resources, with petrol, palm trees, and rich Arabic culture whose people have been starved to death. I am a child from this nation, whose father Mr.Zamel Bawi was sentenced to death, unjustly and adversely.

 I am a small child whose father three months ago was sentenced to execution by the Iranian regime, the enemy of justice and humanity.

 Dear Mr. Annan I have spent my nights wailing, crying and appealing to God who advised me to ask you for help. God of the universe told me that there still exist a few people on this earth who believe in justice, rightness, and truth. God also told me that some of his decent humankinds who will be able to help are people like you, those who organize to protect human rights and humanity, and those just loving people.

 Please help quickly with all means, I do not want to be disappointed about the United Nations and those human loving organization in the world.

Please do as much as you can, as quickly as you can, so that I do not become an orphan at this young age.

 Please do something to stop these oppressors, who know no God and have no mercy, stop them from executing my father.

 I love my father; I want to grow up with a father who cares for and loves me. I want him to hug me, console me and feel for me.

 Please do not let them to punish me by depriving me of my father’s kindness and love.

 Trust and believe me that my father does not deserve to be executed. He speaks for freedom and aspires for it like many did before him and sought justice for humankind.

 The oppressive Iranian government backed by religion—supposedly treats everyone equally—expropriated our land forcefully under the pretext of a sugar cane project. They stole our natural water under false excuses and diverted it to the Persian provinces, leaving us with polluted water. They are looting our natural resources and denying us jobs; in return they have offered us the unemployment and starvation. My people are impoverished to a point where we have slept the nights hungry and spent the days searching the waste on the street for a bag of meal. The government purposely spread drugs among our youth, changed our language, folklore, tradition, and changed our Arabic names to Persian names. When we asked why, they viciously persecuted and slaughtered us with no consideration or mercy, be the victims, babies, women or elderly. My father asked them why they did that to us.

 I am sure neither my father nor other Ahwazis who are sentenced to death committed any thing against the law. I am sure that our only guilt is being Arab. If it is not for this, then why has my father been sentenced in absentia? Why did they not allow the UN representative to meet my father and attend his trial?

 Mr. Kofi Annan, since the death sentence was issued against my father, my mother has been hospitalized. During this period there is no one who takes care of me, there was no one I could speak to about my sadness. Until I saw you on the TV talking about freedom and justice, It came to my mind as my God told me to appeal to you, the human rights organization, and appeal to America, Canada, European countries and to all children of the world to stand with me and with all those children whose fathers might be executed at any time by the Iranian anti-human regime. I am appealing to you: please ask them to return my father to me and please to prevent them from the killing my father. I have nothing but him in this world and I need him back. Who could bring happiness and the love to me, but him? Please help me as soon as possible and as much as you can.

 People of the world, innocent children of the world, please include your voice with mine so that I can be heard loudly and say: do not kill my father. Please call with me for his release, my call alone is not enough since I called and cried many times alone, but I could not do any thing. Please help me so that I can stop the death sentence against my father and fathers of other Ahwazi children. Please, please, please.

 Ahwazi persecuted child,

18/6/2006.