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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Iraqi children pay for war
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- ** Topic: Iraqi children pay for war **
- ** Written 8:24 pm Nov 16, 1992 by pnmideast in cdp:mideast.action **
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- Subject: Iraqi children pay for war
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- /* Written 12:50 pm Nov 15, 1992 by synapses@igc.apc.org in igc:synapses.news */
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- CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAMS
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- November 10, 1992
- PRESS RELEASE
- DEATH TO 46,900 CHILDREN DUE TO GULF WAR
- Chicago - An estimated 46,900 Iraqi children under the age of
- five died in the eight months following the beginning of the
- Persian Gulf War from causes directly related to the war
- according to a September 1992 article in the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL
- OF MEDICINE. The study is based on statistical projections
- resulting from interviews of families of 16,076 children born
- between Jan. 1, 1985 and Aug. 31, 1991 from all parts of Iraq.
-
- The article demonstrates that the burden of death in the Persian
- Gulf war was unfairly borne by a helpless segment of the Iraqi
- civilian population. During the Gulf war, Pentagon spokespersons
- asserted that high-precision weapons with strategic targets
- produced only limited damage to the civilian population. The
- findings of this study "contradict this claim and confirm that
- the causalities of war extend far beyond those caused directly by
- warfare", write the eight international public health officials
- who authored the article. A partial embargo by the allied nations
- who defeated Iraq in the war continues until the present.
-
- "The results show that there is a three fold increase in deaths
- of children between the ages of one year and five years during
- the eight months after the war began." says Wallace
- Shellenberger, M. D. of Paoli, Indiana, a Mennonite and former
- international medical worker. "There was a 4 fold increase in
- deaths due to injuries and a 5.6 fold increase in deaths due to
- diarrhea. The deaths of these children is directly related to
- the loss of electricity which led to a deterioration in the
- quality of water and the loss of capability to manage sewage."
- The last eight months of the study period occurred after the
- beginning of the Persian Gulf war. Interviewers were trained
- university students.
-
- In November 1990 a Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to
- Iraq carried with it $20,000 worth of medical supplies designed
- particularly for children. CPT is a program of the General
- Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church and Church of the
- Brethren. At the time of the Team's visit there was an urgent
- concern over insufficient supplies of infant formula. Although
- the article in the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, covers the
- period of the war and the six months following, the effects of
- bad sewage, poor diet and lack of medical supplies all related to
- the embargo, demonstrate that war related casualties among
- children continue until the present. Southern Iraq, where much
- of the suffering occurs, was the native land of Abraham, the
- founder of monotheism. Concerned persons should contact their
- Members of Congress or Parliament and urge an immediate end to
- the embargo of food, medicines and other emergency supplies for Iraq.
-
- Christian peacemaker Teams 1821 W. Cullerton Chicago, Il 60608 tel.(312)421-5513
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