Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say (women and children)

[rodeodance]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/121b671d950efc3ac031b54b55118d85.htm

IRAQ: Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say

04 Jan 2005 14:56:16 GMT

Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

FALLUJAH, 4 January (IRIN) - "It was really distressing picking up dead bodies from destroyed homes, especially children. It is the most depressing situation I have ever been in since the war started," Dr Rafa'ah al-Iyssaue, director of the main hospital in Fallujah city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, told IRIN.

According to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

Doctors at the hospital claim that many bodies had been found in a mutilated condition, some without legs or arms. Two babies were found at their homes, who are believed to have died from malnutrition, according to a specialist at the hospital.


....He explained that many of the dead had been already buried by civilians from the Garma and Amirya districts of Fallujah after approval from US-led forces nearly three weeks ago, and those bodies had not been counted. ......

[complain jane]

1. They hate our freedoms.

Liberating them from their health, happiness and homes.

[malaise]

2. Is Powell going

to fly over this place to see what his man-made disaster has done to the citizens of Iraq?

[complain jane]

3. The self-serving flavor of his remarks

that this trauma was much, much worse than the traumas of war wasn't lost on me either.

[Skittles]

4. where are the fund raisers for the people of Iraq?

:(