A quarter of the population of Baghdad has been killed?
October 12th 2006 10:41
Ordinary people in death
Since the United States led invasion of Iraq it has been suggested that more people have been killed in Iraq than at any time in its history. The population of Baghdad was 5 million souls. Throughout Iraq as many as 700,000 people have died after the invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein, far more than died as a result of his regime.
The claims are not frivolous and emanate from the John Hopkins University published in the prestigious British medical journal the Lancet. This number is distributed over the country of Iraq so it is correct to say that it represents ¼ of the population of Baghdad but spread over the country. In Australian terms, translated from the population of Iraq to Australia it would be as if the entire population of Brisbane was killed or twice the population of Adelaide, in a war. In population terms we are talking about a new Cambodia, a new Rwanda a new Holocaust.
We were promised after the slaughter of Yugoslavia and Rwanda and Cambodia and Somalia and so many other places that all of this would not happen again. As we speak it continues unabated. So far no one in Orble has been speaking about it. Perhaps this shows how much we are aware of it. Australia is participating in no small way and it is as a result of actions on the part of our Government that this is happening. This does not mean that we are necessarily to blame. Perhaps the nations that began this internecine nightmare did not anticipate it. In which case they have not been reading and learning the lessons of history.
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