Kindersterblichkeit im Irak
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Die Kindersterblichkeit im Irak war ein Thema in der Kontroverse zwischen Bischof Desmond Tutu einerseits und dem britischen Ex-Premier Tony Blair andererseits im Jahre 2012.
Tony Blair hatte in seiner Antwort auf Bischof Tut erklärt: "Iraq today has an economy three times or more in size with child mortality rate cut by a third of what it was".
Weblinks
- Zitat: The humanitarian disaster resulting from sanctions against Iraq has been frequently cited as a factor that motivated the September 11 terrorist attacks. Osama bin Laden himself mentioned the Iraq sanctions in a recent tirade against the United States. Critics of US policy in Iraq claim that sanctions have killed more than a million people, many of them children. Saddam Hussein puts the death toll at one and a half million. The actual numbers are lower than that, although still horrifying.
- John Pilger.com Sanctions on Iraq kill 200 children every day
- Boseley, Sarah (27.05.2000) UN sanctions 'are killing Iraq's children'. The Guardian
- Zitat: Deaths among babies and children in Iraq have more than doubled in the past 10 years because of the deprivation and malnutrition caused by UN sanctions, according to reports in the Lancet medical journal published yesterday. These soaring child-mortality rates will present the defenders of sanctions with a difficult case to answer, and an editorial in the journal spells out a dire warning. "The courageous policy is to suspend [not abandon] sanctions, lest upcoming generations of Iraqis, out of resentment, suffering and isolation, grow up to be as aggressive as their current leader," it says. The study, carried out by Mohammed M Ali from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Iqbal Shah from the World Health Organisation, provides the first accurate data on child mortality in Iraq since 1991. The fieldwork was carried out by the United Nations children's organisation Unicef, with the permission of the Iraqi government.