[Info-Palestine] - « Falloujah, c’est pire qu’Hiroshima »

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  • À Fallujah, un quart des bébés meurent avant leur première semaine, et les trois quarts de ces bébés morts souffraient de déformations. Et plus de cancers, de leucémies et de mortalité infantile qu’à Hiroshima and Nagasaki en 1945. The moral equivalent of Nuremberg - Robert Koehler
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/sns-201210171700--tms--rkoehlerctnbk-a20121018-20121018,0,3103148.co

    The recent study focused on the cities of Basra and Fallujah, where serious fighting occurred during the war. Fallujah was the scene of two large, extremely destructive coalition assaults in 2004. Five years later, doctors at Fallujah General Hospital finally became so alarmed by the increase in birth defects they petitioned the United Nations to investigate, explaining in a letter: “In September 2009, (the hospital) had 170 newborn babies, 24 percent of whom were dead within the first seven days (and) a staggering 75 percent of the dead babies were classified as deformed.” In comparison, their letter stated, in August 2002, before the invasion, 530 babies were born; six of them died within the first week, with a single birth defect reported.

    About eight months later, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published the results of an epidemiological study, which found that Fallujah was experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia and infant mortality than Hiroshima and Nagasaki did in 1945.