A seven - year - old Indian - origin boy has penned a Christmas letter to Santa Claus asking not for presents but peace in Syria.
Aarush Anand, a pupil at Nottingham High School in England, wrote the letter as part of a class project.
In the note, he said: "The only thing I want for Christmas is peace, like in Syria. "
Anand also told Santa not to be "stress out" as "it's hard work going all over the world", the BBC reported.
"Please give money to charities.
PS: Don't give me anything else, " he said in the letter, which was written on Wednesday as part of a Christmas - themed class exercise.
Speaking about his note later, Aarush said: "In Syria, basically every day someone gets killed, and just not in Syria, in India and Pakistan too. "
"Syria is like a mini version of a world war happening in one place and I thought I should write about Syria. "
His teacher, Richard Miller, said he was "quite struck" by Aarush's letter.