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- RAMSEY CLARK SPEAKS ON WEST COAST ON U.S. GULF WAR
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- By Brenda Sandburg
- San Francisco
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- Ramsey Clark spoke before a meeting of 450 people in San
- Francisco Nov. 14. On tour to promote his new book, "The Fire
- This Time," Clark gave an overview of U.S. war crimes in the Gulf
- war. He traveled through Iraq during the U.S. bombardment in
- February 1991, and saw firsthand how the U.S. deliberately
- targeted the civilian population.
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- The U.S. dropped more than 88,500 tons of explosives, knocking
- out water distribution, purification and sewage facilities--so by
- Feb. 9, 1991, more than 6,000 people had died just from drinking
- bad water. Electrical power plants; oil refineries; fertilizer;
- pesticide, and feed plants; and a baby milk formula plant were
- destroyed. Clark cited a report in the Sept. 24 New England
- Journal of Medicine that calculates 46,900 children died in the
- first eight months after the war.
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- Based on data collected by the Commission of Inquiry for the
- International War Crimes Tribunal, Clark estimates that the war
- killed over 150,000 Iraqi civilians, including at least 100,000
- post-war deaths. The figure continues to mount, as people die
- daily from diseases caused by contaminated water, malnutrition
- and lack of medical services and medicines.
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- Clark said that when Gen. Colin Powell, head of the Joint Chiefs
- of Staff, was asked how many Iraqi civilians had been killed he
- responded, "That's not a figure I'm interested in."
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- War crimes were also committed against Iraqi soldiers. Clark said
- thousands of soldiers were buried alive when the U.S. bulldozed
- over their trenches. He also cited the Highway of Death, where
- thousands of retreating Iraqi soldiers were slaughtered in what
- U.S. pilots called a "turkey shoot."
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- Between 125,000 and 150,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed in the
- war.
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- Also speaking at the meeting were Elias Rashmawi of the Palestine
- Arab Center, who gave an update on the 12,000 Palestinian
- prisoners on hunger strike, Rhonda Collins of the U.S.-Cuba
- Friendshipment Caravan, and Pierre Labosier of the Bay Area
- Haitian American Council.
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