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The Human Cost of War
'We need to stop this forever'
Boy in the Dumpster
Feb. 10, 2003
Text and photo
by Lorna Tychostup
A child in a Baghdad hotel dumpster, his face covered with food.
He is a victim of the U.S.-backed sanctions against Iraq that have
slowed humanitarian goods from entering the country. Child mortality
and widespread epidemics are the result. Monthly government food
handouts last only three weeks.
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Salmon and His Family
Feb. 18, 2003
Text and photo
by Lorna Tychostup
As we are treated to pastries, Salman says: "I am very thankful
that all people support us--Arabs, Spain, Israel, Japan, Swiss,
Thailand, Italy, Philippines..." Eman, Salman's 40 year-old
daughter, adds: "We want to live in safety. But maybe they
will say they want war again. We need to stop this forever. We want
them to leave our president. If he stays or not is not your business.
If the war happens there will be no electricity, no refrigerator,
no freezer, no water..."
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Ameria Bomb Shelter
Feb. 20, 2003
Text and photo
by Lorna Tychostup
During the first Gulf War, mostly children and their mothers, along
with a handful of men, huddled inside the Ameria Bomb Shelter, thinking
they were safe from the bombs. Claiming the bunker housed a military
command center and arsenal, U.S. missiles slammed the shelter, burning
408 people alive. Photos of the dead now hang on simple plywood
boards. Raised Plexiglas sheets cover large blackened areas on the
concrete floor--etched remnants of bodies that were literally vaporized.
Iraqis say they will not huddle in such shelters again for fear
of being a direct target for Bush's son.
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A Casualty of War
March 2003
Text and photo
by Stop the War Coalition, UK
An Iraqi wedding photographer took this photo. It shows an eight-year-old
girl who was killed in Basra when a U.S. bomb hit a residential
area during a raid in the "no-fly zone" of southern Iraq.
Basra is said to be first in line for U.S. occupation.
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