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Claim 1 - 27,000 dead Assyrian children, Part 1 of 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beth Suryoyo Assyrian (Othuroyo) Forum -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Tiglath on 31 Jul 2004 15:02:38: (Since on July 16, 2004, you stated: But I promise you this I am investigating taking the Australian Government to court for helping enforce sanctions that killed an estimated 27,000 Christian Assyrian children during the past 11 years and for a further estimated 600 innocent Assyrians killed during the illegal invasion of Iraq.) Mr. Speaker, My honourable colleague is of course referring to the U.N. sanctions that have been led by the U.S. for the past 14 years. A 1995 report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) indicated that child mortality, which defined as the rate of death among children under sixty months of age, had quintupled since 1990. Based on these results, two of the FAO report's authors estimated over 500,000 sanctions-related child fatalities between 1990 and 1995. According to a joint FAO-World Food Programme assessment mission conducted in 1995, four million Iraqis, most of them children and pregnant or nursing women were at serious risk of malnutrition. Drinking-water and water-treatment systems, significantly damaged during the Gulf War, continued to operate at limited capacity due to the inability to import spare parts. Shortages of basic and specialized medical supplies led to sharp increases in infectious, parasitic, and water-borne diseases, according to a 1996 report by the independent, New York-based Center for Economic and Social Rights. Now I contend that this report of 500,000 dead Iraqi children under the age of 5 was conducted in 1995. And that it includes only CHILDREN and not the elderly, adults, teenagers or military, of which we also have people serving. Three years later in 1998 the United Nations children Fund estimated the number of dead Iraqi children had now reached 600,000. They also said the actual number is even higher because families often don't report someone who has died, for they will lose that food ration ("Situation Analysis of Children and Women In Iraq", United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), April 30, 1998). Now using the AUA's 1990s estimate of 1 million Assyrians in all of Iraq and the Iraqi population which was around 22 million (1 million divided by 22 million) multiplied by 600,000 dead Iraqi children will give you the estimated number of dead. And that number is 27,272 dead Assyrian CHRISTIAN children, under the age of 5, from 1991 to 1998. If we were to estimate the total number of children since 1998 then we'd arrive at an even larger number. But 27,000 is the total number I have chosen to give as an ESTIMATE as it takes into consideration the fact that the Assyrian community in Iraq may be more affluent and have access to better sanitation and financial assistance from the diaspora community. I contend that this is an ESTIMATE built on other estimates such as the Assyrian population of Iraq and the population of the Iraqi people themselves. My honourable colleague will also argue that if such a number of Assyrian children had died why haven't they been reported in the media and why haven't we been told of the deaths by the Assyrian community or media in Iraq. My answer is that it's not media worthy or it happened in silence. The vast majority of deaths occurred in hospital rooms between parents and their child who passed away from a preventible disease. But the major reason why we don't hear or know about it is because the Assyrian community has a religiously-based identity and while the sight of two Assyrian children with exploded heads will make the front cover of Zinda magazine - because it was done by Muslims - 27,000 dead Assyrian children - who were allowed to die by Christians - is something we cannot face. It’s something that we psychologically choose to ignore. For if we truly knew what had been done in our names, and with our tax dollars, we would surely weep. “They died in silence for humanity had closed its ears to their cry”. Khalil Gibran --------------------- |
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