Najla Bassim Abdulelah grew up in a war. The regular sight of dead bodies and the memory of her friend being shot next to her as they walked to school stained her childhood.
Children’s laughter was replaced with an incessant soundtrack of exploding bombs, and she lived with a crippling fear of losing her family.
“I am disgusted that this is something that will be producing profit when people like me suffered the consequences of this war and will have to watch people play it for fun,” Abdulelah, 28, told CNN. “I just can’t get past the inhumanity.”
For Abdulelah and other Iraq War survivors, the imminent release of “Six Days in Fallujah” threatens to reopen old wounds and trivialize their pain.
They want the game shelved.
But the creators of the video game say it’s grossly misunderstood, and that they’re merely using gameplay — the way players interact with a video game — to teach…
