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Deformed
babies in Fallujah - Iraq :
LETTER
TO THE UNITED NATIONS
H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki
President of the Sixty-fourth Session of the United Nations General
Assembly
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
October 12th 2009
Your Excellency,
RE DEFORMED BABIES IN FALLUJAH
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Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children
because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely
deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads,
scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in
Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukaemias. These
deformities are now well documented, for example in television
documentaries on SKY UK on September 1 2009, and on SKY UK June
2008. Our direct contact with doctors in Fallujah report that:
In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born
babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days, a
staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed.
This can be compared with data from the month of August in 2002
where there were 530 new born babies of whom six were dead within
the first seven days and only one birth defect was reported.
Doctors in Fallujah have specifically pointed out that not only are
they witnessing unprecedented numbers of birth defects but premature
births have also considerably increased after 2003. But what is more
alarming is that doctors in Fallujah have said, “a significant
number of babies that do survive begin to develop severe
disabilities at a later stage”.
As one of a number of doctors, scientists and those with deep
concern for Iraq, Dr Chris Burns-Cox, a British hospital physician,
wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon. Clare Short, M.P. asking about this
situation. She wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon.Douglas Alexander, M.P.
the Secretary of State of the Department for International
Development (a post she had held before she resigned on a matter of
principle in May 2003 ) asking for clarification of the position of
deformed children in Fallujah.
She received a reply dated 3rd September 2009 (two days after the
Sky TV broadcast of 1st September 2009 ) from a junior minister,
deputy to The Secretary of State, Mr. Gareth Thomas MP, Duty
Minister, Department for International Development. In his reply he
denies that there are more than two or three deformed babies in
Fallujah in a year and asserts that there is, therefore, no problem.
This is at wild variance with reports coming out of Fallujah. One
grave digger of a single cemetery is burying four to five babies a
day, most of which he says are deformed.
Clare Short passed us a copy of this letter. It bears a remarkable
similarity to three other written answers we have received over a
four year period, in regard to child health and the use of depleted
uranium. All these letters are based on lies and an aim to confuse
the recipients. In her autobiography “Honorable Deception?” Clare
Short says “The first instinct of Number 10 (Downing Street) is to
lie."
We regard the mendacity of Mr. Thomas’s letter, and of the other
letters we have received, as extremely serious. These letters do not
deal with minor matters of corruption, or taxes, but do deal with
the use of armed forces and deadly weapons.
The use of certain weapons has tremendous repercussions. Iraq will
become a country, if it has not already done so, where it is
advisable not to have children. Other countries will watch what has
happened in Iraq, and imitate the Coalition Allies’ total disregard
of the United Nations Charter, The Geneva, and Hague Conventions,
and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Some
countries, such as Afghanistan, will also come to experience the
very long term damage to the environment, measured in billions of
years, and the devastating effect of depleted uranium and white
phosphorous munitions.
If, as we say in our letter to the Duty Minister of the Department
for International Development, the UK Government clearly does not
know the effects of the weapons it uses, nor, as a matter of policy,
does “it do body counts”, how can the UK Government judge whether it
is conducting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan according to
International Law, especially in terms of “proportionality” and long
term damage to the natural environment? How can the UK know about
the illegality of the weapons systems it sells on the international
market, such as the “Storm Shadow” missile, if the very Department
of the Government that is supposed to assess the deaths and medical
needs of children and adults in Iraq is not telling the truth.
We request from the United Nations General Assembly the following:
1. To acknowledge that there is a serious problem regarding the
unprecedented number of birth defects and cancer cases in Iraq
specifically in Fallujah, Basra, Baghdad and Al - Najaf.
2. To set up an independent committee to conduct a full
investigation into the problem of the increased number of birth
defects and cancers in Iraq.
3. To implement the cleaning up of toxic materials used by the
occupying forces including Depleted Uranium, and White Phosphorus.
4. To prevent children and adults entering contaminated areas to
minimize exposure to these hazards.
5. To investigate whether war crimes, or crimes against humanity,
have been committed, and thereby uphold the United Nations Charter,
The Geneva and Hague Conventions, and The Rome Statute of The
International Criminal Court.
Please find enclosed a copy of our letter to Mr Gareth Thomas, dated
12th October 2009, and his letter to The Rt Hon Clare Short, M.P.
dated 3rd September 2009, and enclosures relating to this matter.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Nawal Majeed Al-Sammarai ( Iraq Minister of Women’s Affairs 2006
-2009)
Dr. David Halpin FRCS (Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon)
Malak Hamdan M. Eng in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering.
Dr Chris Burns-Cox MD FRCP
Dr. Haithem Alshaibani (Environmental Sciences)
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Author and Journalist)
Nicholas Wood MA, RIBA, FRGS
Enclosures to follow by surface mail:
1: Copy of Sky Television Documentary 1 September 2009 “ The
Deformed Babies of Fallujah”:
2: Copy of Sky Television Documentary June 2008 “ The Deformed
Babies of Fallujah”.
3: Frieder Wagners’s film “ Deadly Desert Dust” 2006.
4: Report by doctors in Fallujah 4 March 2008 “ Prohibited Weapons
Crisis”
5: Film the “Dying children of Iraq”,compiled by Nicholas Wood.
6: US Army briefing on the use of White Phosphorous in Fallujah on
“Shake and Bake Missions”
7: Report “Who Can Forgive the Crime of using Depleted Uranium
Against Iraq and Humanity” by Dr Haithem Alshaibani, September 2009
.
8: Written Answer by Mr Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Department
for International Development to Parliamentary Question. 10 March
2005.
9: Letter by Mr Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Department for
International Development to The Independent, 20 January 2007, in
reply to the 98 Doctors’ letter to the Prime Minister.
10:Letter by Rt.Hon. Des Browne, M.P. UK Former Minister of Defence
to Rt. Hon. Tony Benn, November 2008
11: Black Country Coroner’s District ( Sandwell, Dudley.and Walsall:
) Coroner’s Report into death of Stuart Raymond Dyson. 18 September
2009.
12: Calculations of expected child abnormalities in a city the size
of Cardiff or Fallujah using UK statistics , David Halpin FRCS
Letter from Mr Gareth Thomas M.P. Duty Minister, Department for
International Development, 3 September 2009 to Rt. Hon. Clare Short
M.P.
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