From Iraq, A Tragic Reminder to Prosecute the War Criminals
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mercredi 23 octobre 2013
vendredi 18 octobre 2013
The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert’s fingers. It
gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school
playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to
Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, “the seeds of our death”. An internationally respected cancer
specialist at the Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra, Dr. Ali told me that in
1999, and today his warning is irrefutable. “Before the Gulf war,” he said, “we
had two or three cancer patients a month. Now we have 30 to 35 dying every
month. Our studies indicate that 40 to 48 per cent of the population in this
area will get cancer: in five years’ time to begin with, then long after.
That’s almost half the population. Most of my own family have it, and we have
no history of the disease. It is like Chernobyl here; the genetic effects are
new to us; the mushrooms grow huge; even the grapes in my garden have mutated
and can’t be eaten.” (From Anti.war.com)
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