cicerone imposter wrote:War has killed 100,000 Iraqis: study
Last Updated Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:25:07 EDT
CBC News
LONDON - Nearly 100,000 more Iraqis have died during the American-led occupation than would have been expected otherwise, a study posted on The Lancet medical journal's website Thursday estimates.
Are you implying that American soldiers killed them?
CI you need help...
Do you not think that the same ba'ath party that unleashed mustard gas and serin gas on the kurds may have killed a few Iraqis with their bombs aimed at American troops?
Do you also not think that the jehad aimed at killing the American "infidel" may have something to do with the numbers of dead in Iraq?
People were dying by the tens of thousands in Iraq LONG before the American-led
"liberation".
Excerpt:
This report is a narrative account of a campaign of
extermination against the Kurds of northern Iraq
The campaigns of 1987-1989 were characterized by the following gross violations of human rights:
· mass summary executions and mass disappearance of
many tens of thousands of
non-combatants, including large numbers of women and children,
and sometimes the entire population of villages;
·
the widespread use of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent GB, or Sarin, against the town of Halabja as well as dozens of Kurdish villages,
killing many thousands of people, mainly women and children;
·
the wholesale destruction of some 2,000 villages, which are described in government documents as having been "burned," "destroyed," "demolished" and "purified," as well as at least a dozen larger towns and administrative centers (nahyas and qadhas);
· the wholesale destruction of civilian objects
by Army engineers, including all schools, mosques, wells and other non-residential structures in the targeted villages, and a number of electricity substations;
· looting of civilian property and farm animals on a vast scale
by army troops and pro-government militia;
· arbitrary arrest of all villagers captured in designated "prohibited areas" (manateq al-mahdoureh), despite the fact that these were their own homes and lands;
·
arbitrary jailing and warehousing for months, in conditions of extreme deprivation, of tens of thousands of women, children and elderly people, without judicial order or any cause other than their presumed sympathies for the Kurdish opposition. Many hundreds of them were allowed to die of malnutrition and disease;
·
forced displacement of
hundreds of thousands of villagers upon the demolition of their homes, their release from jail or return from exile; these civilians were trucked into areas of Kurdistan far from their homes and dumped there by the army with only minimal governmental compensation or none at all for their destroyed property, or any provision for relief, housing, clothing or food, and forbidden to return to their villages of origin on pain of death.
In these conditions, many died within a year of their forced displacement;
· destruction of the rural Kurdish economy and infrastructure.
Comment:
CI you are twisted to the max. Who let you out from the mental institution?
The Americans led coalition are ONLY defending themselves and America from combatants shooting at them and planning terror attacks... these same combatants would be attacking us on our soil if we were not fighting them in Iraq.
If we were not fighting them in Iraq they would still be killing their neighbors i.e.
More and more it is now FREE Iraqis defending Iraq.
Why don't you take your poison pen and write about that one.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFALINT.htm
