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More war crimes
Nov. 30th, 2004 03:59 pmWondering what the hell is going on in Fallujah? Why the media blackout? Why the US troops aren't letting anyone in there? (and btw, please ignore the Orwellian title of the article I just linked, the US troops aren't *helping* the convoy, they are preventing Red Crescent from getting to the victims of the genocide that is taking place.)
"Our situation is very hard," said one resident contacted by telephone in the central Hay al-Dubat neighbourhood. "We don't have food or water. My seven children all have severe diarrhoea.
"One of my sons was wounded by shrapnel last night and he's bleeding, but I can't do anything to help him," he told Reuters.
Maybe the US forces aren't letting the aid workers in beecause they are gassing the civilian population, rumor has it poisonous gas is being used.
"After we waited in the US base, located near Falluja, for four hours, a doctor told us that they had agreed with the Iraqi ministry of health to send a medical team to Falluja but only after eight or nine days.
"There is a terrible crime going in Falluja and they do not want anybody to know. I transferred four injured people from the Jordanian field hospital to a hospital in Baghdad.
"They told me that there is a crime in there; chemical weapons are being used. The corpses don't have traces of gunshots but black patches."
[On Edit: please see replies for a very informative overview by Jacob/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
convivium of the legal/historical/present-moment issues surrounding chemical warfare]
"Our situation is very hard," said one resident contacted by telephone in the central Hay al-Dubat neighbourhood. "We don't have food or water. My seven children all have severe diarrhoea.
"One of my sons was wounded by shrapnel last night and he's bleeding, but I can't do anything to help him," he told Reuters.
Maybe the US forces aren't letting the aid workers in beecause they are gassing the civilian population, rumor has it poisonous gas is being used.
"After we waited in the US base, located near Falluja, for four hours, a doctor told us that they had agreed with the Iraqi ministry of health to send a medical team to Falluja but only after eight or nine days.
"There is a terrible crime going in Falluja and they do not want anybody to know. I transferred four injured people from the Jordanian field hospital to a hospital in Baghdad.
"They told me that there is a crime in there; chemical weapons are being used. The corpses don't have traces of gunshots but black patches."
[On Edit: please see replies for a very informative overview by Jacob/
convivium of the legal/historical/present-moment issues surrounding chemical warfare]
