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To: Aggie who wrote (32078)11/24/1998 10:12:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 95453
 
<<..hundreds of thousands dead because of the sanctions? Where did that number come from?>>

From UN agencies.

UNESCO report issued in April. More than 250 people, mostly children under 5, die each day because of sanctions. Estimated one-and-a-half million people dead since 1990, as result of sanctions imposed. (That's about 5 percent of Iraq's pre-sanctions population. In percentage terms, that is equivalent to about 13 million dead Americans.)

The World Food Programme. Reports more than 1.2 million Iraqi children dead as result of embargo between August 1990 and August 1997.

World Health Organization. Reports that most Iraqis have been on a semi-starvation diet for the last few years. A can of powdered milk costs as much as one month of a doctor's salary. Infant mortality has increased six-fold since 1990.

lbbs.org ("Iraq Update")

And so forth. Actually, George's figures look modest by comparison.

jbe
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