By Geoff Simons
The Scourging of Iraq describes the influence of the 1991 Gulf warfare and next monetary sanctions at the Iraqi humans. facts is gifted to teach that nutrition and drugs are being denied to the civilian inhabitants, and that this includes a gross violation of the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva conference, consisting of the phrases: 'Starvation of civilians as a style of conflict is prohibited'. Sanctions are thought of in a historic, political and criminal context, with specific recognition to how the industrial blockade can be visible as a felony violation of UN resolutions and the UN Genocide Convention.
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The postal, telephone and telex facilities had been destroyed, making it impossible to communicate information about sanitation and health needs. Mohammad Furat, manager of the Rustumiya sewage treatment plant, which, like most other such facilities, had come under allied bombing attacks, estimated that 65 million cubic yards of raw sewage was flowing into the Tigris every month. The health problems were compounded by the destruction of pumping stations and the The Legacy of War 29 bombing of the plants that manufactured water purification chemicals.
We lack fertilisers and pesticides as well as spares to get our power stations and oil refineries working again ... ' The situation was well understood by the international community 32 The Scourging of Iraq but the United States blocked all serious proposals for humanitarian action to address the suffering of the Iraqi people. On 20 November 1991 the director of Oxfam, Frank Judd, emphasised the need for urgent action to help the millions of Iraqis facing a winter without medicines, adequate food or housing.
The children's minds appear a landscape of mental craters and destruction. The children have given insight into the disastrous psychic injury it represents to see family and friends killed, homes destroyed. There is no safe place. ' The Raundalen study revealed that 80 per cent of the children had lost friends in the bombing, that some had rescued friends or relatives from collapsed buildings, only to see them die later. One child, Luay, found the body of a mother and then her baby; the 13-year-old carefully put the dead baby on its mother's breast and put 20 The Scourging of Iraq her dead arms around it.