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Oh yeah, we already led a child holocost there due
to radiation exposure from the first Buush Fiasco.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:10
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Silent daily
massacre in Irak
The Associated Press
30 March 2005
GENEVA
(AP) - Almost twice as many Iraqi children are suffering from
malnutrition
since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, a
U.N. monitor said
Monday.
Four percent of Iraqis under age 5 went hungry in the months
after
Saddam's ouster in April 2003, and the rate nearly doubled to 7.7
percent last year, said Jean Ziegler, the U.N. Human Rights
Commission's special expert on the right to food.
The situation is
``a result of the war led by coalition forces,'' he
said.
Overall,
more than a quarter of Iraqi children don't get enough to
eat, Ziegler
told the 53-nation commission, the top U.N. human
rights watchdog.
The U.S. delegation did not respond to the report, and diplomats at
the U.S. mission to the United Nations' European headquarters in
Geneva also said they would not comment.
Ziegler also cited an
October 2004 U.S. study estimating that as
many as 100,000 more
Iraqis—many of them women and children—had died
since the start of the
U.S.-led invasion than would have been
expected otherwise, based on the
mortality rate before the war.
``Most died as a result of the
violence, but many others died as a
result of the increasingly difficult
living conditions, reflected in
increasing child mortality levels,''
Ziegler said.
The authors of the report in the British-based medical
journal The
Lancet&mdash&researchers from Johns Hopkins
University, Columbia
University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in
Baghdad—conceded
their data were of ``limited precision,'' because they
depended on
the accuracy of the household interviews used for the study.
The
interviewers were Iraqi, most of them doctors.
Ziegler also
told the human rights commission he was concerned about
hunger in North
Korea, Palestinian areas, Sudan's conflict-ravaged
Darfur region,
Zimbabwe, India, Myanmar, the Philippines and
Romania.
Worldwide,
he said, more than 17,000 children under age 5 die daily
from
hunger-related diseases.
``The silent daily massacre of hunger is a
form of murder,'' Ziegler
said. ``It must be battled and eliminated.''
``Millions of undernourished people (who survive) are condemned to
lives that are physically and mentally stunted, that are too short
and
full of suffering,'' he said.
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