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Oil fields burning from
the war. |
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Ameriya Shelter: A cruise missile with
a DU warhead hit the shelter on February 13, 1991. The 1500
people, mostly children were burned alive inside the shelter.
The shelter is being preserved as a memorial.
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A young boy next to bombed apartment
house where many residents were killed. |
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Falah Hussein (age 20): When a U.S. dud
bomb suddenly exploded, he lost his right leg. Two years
later, he contracted bone cancer that spread to his lung.
His doctor predicted he wouldn't survive another two weeks.
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Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra,
South of Iraq. Depleted uranium, with it metal toxicity and
radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys. A needle was
injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy. She
died soon after the painful injection. |
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Mothers with children in their arms in
leukemia ward of Mansool Children's Hospital in Baghdad.
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8-year old Safaa at the entrance to Mansool
Children's Hospital. She was leaving because they had run
out of medicine. As a side effect of the anti-cancer medication
she was taking to treat her leukemia, she had lost all of
her hair. |
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Juwad has lost 550g
in four month since his birth. His parents were unable to
buy milk for him. He suffered from heavy diarrhea due to malnutrition.
The hospital had almost no antibiotics available. Babies with
low resistance are highly susceptible to infectious disease.
Many fail to escape death. |
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Baby born with anencephaly. His shocked
mother disappeared from the hospital.
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