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To: Just_Observing who wrote (20039)	3/12/2003 9:40:14 PM
From: Just_Observing	of 25898

10M IRAQIS WILL STARVE IN WAR Mar 12 2003 AID AGENCIES' DIRE WARNING By Paul Gilfeather Whitehall Editor MORE than 10 million Iraqis will starve if war goes ahead, aid agencies warned yesterday. Experts fear military action would hit power supplies and transport routes, disrupting the flow of vital food supplies. Care International, Christian Aid and Save the Children said a war without UN backing would make delivering aid even harder. Raja Jarrah from Care International said: "Up to 10 million people will need feeding if the food ration system is disrupted. "Upwards of 60 per cent of people face hunger, if not starvation. "About 90 per cent of Iraq's sewage treatment stations are vulnerable if the electricity goes down, leading to polluted drinking water and dire public health consequences." And he warned: "If a war does not have a United Nations mandate then it's going to be even harder for the United Nations humanitarian agencies to have access to the resources they need for the scale of the response required." Mr Jarrah said there was "no evidence" that the international community is "prepared for that scale of disaster". He said experts predict at least half a million Iraqis will be affected as a direct result of war - with up to 80,000 deaths. He said: "Whilst we can't predict the exact consequences of war, we can predict they will be dire and, for many households, catastrophic." The charities estimate there will be two million refugees with one million Iraqis displaced inside Iraq. Lewis Sida, from Save the Children UK, said: "We find ourselves ill-prepared for a large scale humanitarian crisis." He said the aims of the military in war would be "desperately incompatible" with those of aid workers. He said: "It would be difficult for a British or American soldier to get into enemy territory to distribute aid." mirror.co.uk

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