{"id":13266,"date":"2015-03-29T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:06:22","slug":"an-iraqi-holocaust-2-7-million-iraqi-dead-from-violence-or-war-imposed-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"An Iraqi Holocaust: 2.7 Million Iraqi Dead From Violence Or War-imposed Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Iraqi Holocaust:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

2.7 Million Iraqi Dead From Violence Or War-imposed Deprivation<\/h2>\n

By Dr Gideon Polya<\/p>\n

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March 27, 2015 “ICH<\/a>” – “Countercurrents<\/a>” – Those with consciences \u00a0recently marked the 12th anniversary on 19 March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 \u00a0that was based on false assertions of Iraqi possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was conducted in the absence of \u00a0UN sanction \u00a0or Iraqi threat to the invading nations, and led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from \u00a0violence (1.5 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million). The West has now commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation have totalled \u00a09 million. However \u00a0Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored \u00a0the carnage, this tragically illustrating the adage \u201cHistory ignored yields history repeated\u201d [1].<\/p>\n

Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted and perverted Western Mainstream media utterly ignore expert assessments of how many people the US Alliance has killed in Iraq and resolutely ignore the crucial epidemiological concept of non-violent avoidable deaths (excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess mortality, deaths that should not have happened) associated with war-imposed deprivation (for detailed analysis see [2]). \u00a0Thus, by way of example, \u00a0on the occasion of \u00a0US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 the Australian ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) reported that \u201cThe withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead” [3]. \u00a0In contrast, the expert and eminent US Just Foreign Policy organization estimates, based on the data of expert UK analysts and top US medical epidemiologists, 1.5 million violent deaths in the Iraq War (2003-2011) [4-7] and UN data indicate a further 0.8 million Iraq avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation in this period [2]. Violent deaths and avoidable deaths from violently -imposed deprivation in the Gulf War (1990-1991) and Sanctions period (1990-2003) total 0.2 million and 1.2 million, respectively [1]. \u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, Iraqi deaths from violence (1.7 million) or war-imposed deprivation (2.9 million) since 1990 total 4.6 million [1].<\/p>\n

However Western violation of \u00a0Iraq commenced with the British invasion in 1914. \u00a0Assuming excess mortality of Iraqis under British rule or hegemony (1914- 1948) was the \u00a0same as for Indians under the British (interpolation from available data indicate Indian avoidable death rates \u00a0in \u201cdeaths per 1,000 of population per year\u201d \u00a0of 37 (1757-1920), 35 (1920-1930), 30 (1930-1940) and 24 (1940-1950) [8]), one can estimate from Iraqi population data [9] that Iraqi avoidable \u00a0deaths from deprivation under British occupation and hegemony from 1914-1950 totalled about 4 million. Thus ignoring \u00a0Iraqi deaths associated with the US-backed Iraq-Iran War, one can estimate that about 9 million \u00a0Iraqi deaths fromUK or US \u00a0violence or imposed deprivation in the century after the 1914 invasion of Iraq by Britain, this constituting an Iraqi Holocaust and an Iraqi Genocide as discussed below.<\/p>\n

Holocaust is the destruction of a large number of people and 9 million Iraqi deaths from Anglo-American violence or violently-imposed deprivation certainly constitutes \u00a0an Iraqi Holocaust. The term \u201cholocaust\u201d was first applied to a WW2 atrocity by Jog in 1944 [11] in relation to the \u201cforgotten\u201d man-made Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust) in which 6-7 million Indians (many of them Muslims, and hence the term WW2 Muslim Holocaust) \u00a0were deliberately starved to death by the British in \u00a01942-1945 (Australia was complicit in this atrocity by withholding grain from its huge wartime wheat stores from starving India) [11-14]. The term \u201cholocaust\u201d was subsequently applied to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation according to the recently deceased, pro-Iraq War, and Iraqi Genocide-ignoring British Zionist historian Professor Sir Martin Gilbert [15]), noting that the WW2 Jewish Holocaust was part of a vastly greater WW2 European Holocaust in which 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies were killed [2].<\/p>\n

Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as \u201c acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group\u201d, as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: \u201cIn the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.\u201d [16]. Any argument that \u00a0the British and Americans did not \u201cintend\u201d to kill 9 million Iraqis is belied by the remorseless slaughter over 101 years interrupted only by the period between the \u00a0overthrow of the British-installed monarchy in 1958 and the commencement \u00a0of Sanctions in 1990.<\/p>\n

The Anglo-American Iraqi Genocide since 1990 has been associated with 2 million under-5 year old infant deaths \u00a0comprising 1.2 million (1990-2003) and 0.8 million (2003-2011), 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War which demand that an Occupier must supply their conquered Subjects with \u00a0food and medical requisites to \u201cthe fullest extent of the means available to it\u201d [17]. The Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide was also war criminal mass infanticide and mass paedocide.<\/p>\n

The appalling legacy of a quarter of a century of Western violence against Iraq \u00a0(1990-2015) – for oil, US hegemony and Apartheid Israeli hegemony \u2013 is summarized below<\/b><\/strong>, with much of the data being found in \u00a0\u201cIraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide\u201d [1], \u201cGenocide in Iraq\u201d volumes I and II by Iraqi scholars Dr Abdul-Haq Al-Ani & Tariq Al-Ani and reviews of these works [18-21] and noting that about half of the Iraqi \u00a0population of 30 million are children :<\/p>\n

(1). 1.7 million Iraqi violent deaths.<\/p>\n

(2). 2.9 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from violently -imposed deprivation.<\/p>\n

(3). 2 million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of the Geneva Convention by the US Alliance.<\/p>\n

(4). 7,700,000 Iraqi refugees.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(5). 5,000,000 Iraqi orphans.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(6). 3,000,000 Iraqi widows.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(7). 1,000,0000 Iraqis missing.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(8). 4,000 Iraqi women (20% under 18) missing and presumed \u201ctrafficked\u201d.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(9). 3.5 million Iraqi children living \u00a0in dire poverty.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(10). 1.5 million Iraqi children are undernourished.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(11). Iraqi cancer cases in cases per 100,000 people were 40 (1990), 800 (1995) and 1,600 (2005).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(12). 40% of Iraqi professionals have left since 2003.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(13). 34,000 doctors (1990) declined to 16,000 doctors \u00a0(2008).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(14). More than 2,200 doctors \u00a0and nurses killed.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(15). The Iraqi health budget dropped from \u00a0$450 million pa (1980-1991) to $22 million (2002),<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(16). Most of Iraqi children are traumatized by war.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

(17). From high literacy pre-1990 to 74% illiteracy in 2011.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Iraq has been substantially destroyed a modern state by <\/em><\/em>US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism and the same state terrorists have been variously involved in the similar destruction of Libya and Syria from formerly being \u00a0modern, socially progressive states (albeit under authoritarian governments). . These are unforgivable crimes and the US Alliance war criminals must be brought to account by the world through international law and through application of \u00a0Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the war criminal Western states responsible for the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide.<\/p>\n

Summary.<\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The \u00a0anti-racist Jewish British writer Harold Pinter declared in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: \u201cWe have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice\u201d \u00a0[22]. 1990-2011 Iraqi deaths from US Alliance \u00a0violence (1.7 million) or violently-imposed deprivation (2.9 million) total 4.6 million and one can in 2015 paraphrase this great humanitarian: \u201cHow many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? 4.6 million? More than enough, I would have thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the International Criminal Court (ICC) as currently operating is a racist, cowardly, partisan, genocide-ignoring, genocide-complicit organization that strictly confines its war crimes attention to war criminals that the US Alliance doesn’t like (e.g. non-European and Serbian war criminals) (for discussion see \u201cThe Politics of Genocide\u201d by Edward S. Herman and\u00a0 David Peterson [23, 24]). The ICC has repeatedly ignored complaints over the Iraqi Genocide (e.g. [25, 26] and that means the world \u00a0must accept recourse to eminent, ICC-independent \u00a0international tribunals to assess the war crimes of \u00a0the US Alliance in Iraq and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism have variously combined over the last \u00a025 years to destroy Iraq as a united, sovereign, modern state. In the face of endless war against Iraq and an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide, what can decent people do? \u00a0Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) circumvent \u00a0the lying and ignoring by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted Mainstream media [27] by resolutely attempting \u00a0to \u00a0inform everyone \u00a0they can about the \u00a0Iraqi Genocide, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) \u2013 of the kind successfully applied against Apartheid South Africa and currently being applied against \u00a0US Alliance-backed, nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel \u2013 against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries involved in the Iraqi Genocide and the Zionist-promoted Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide of which it is a part [28]. History ignored yields history repeated. We cannot walk by on the other side.<\/p>\n

References.<\/b><\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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[1]. \u201cIraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide\u201d: http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[2]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBody Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950\u201d, that includes \u00a0an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal \u00a0on the web \u00a0: http:\/\/globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au\/ <\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

[3]. \u00a0\u201cUS military marks end of its Iraq war\u201d, ABC News, \u00a016 December 2011:http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2011-12-15\/us-military-marks-end-of-its-war-in-iraq\/3733982<\/a> \u00a0.<\/p>\n

[4]. \u201cJust Foreign Policy\u201d: http:\/\/www.justforeignpolicy.org\/iraq<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[5]. ORB (Opinion Research Business), \u201cJanuary 2008 – Update on Iraqi Casualty Data\u201d, January 2008:http:\/\/www.opinion.co.uk\/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=88<\/a> .<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

[6]. <\/strong><\/strong>Les Roberts, \u201cLes Roberts: Iraq’s death toll far worse than our leaders admit\u201d, Uruqnet: 14 February 2007: http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?s1=1&p=30670&s2=16<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[7]. G. Burnham, R. Lafta, S. Doocy and L. Roberts, \u201cMortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey\u201d, The \u00a0Lancet 2006 Oct 21;368(9545):1421-8:http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17055943<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[8]. Gideon Polya, \u201cEconomist Mahima Khanna wins Cambridge Prize\u201d, MWC News, 20 November 2011: http:\/\/mwcnews.net\/focus\/analysis\/14978-economist-mahima-khanna.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[10]. \u201cIraq Population\u201d: http:\/\/www.populstat.info\/Asia\/iraqc.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[11]. \u00a0Jog, N.G. (1944), \u201cChurchill’s Blind-Spot: India\u201d, \u00a0New Book Company, Bombay.<\/p>\n

[12]. Gideon Polya, \u201cJane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability\u201d, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008, now available \u00a0for free perusal on the web: http:\/\/janeaustenand.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/jane-austen-and-black-hole-of-british.html <\/a>.<\/p>\n

[13]. \u00a0Gideon Polya, \u201cAustralia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya290911.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[14]. Madhusree Muckerjee, \u201cChurchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of Indiaduring World War II\u201d (Basic Books, New York, 2010).<\/p>\n

[15]. Gideon Polya\u00a0, \u201cUK Zionist Historian Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) Variously Ignored Or Minimized WW2 Bengali Holocaust\u201d, Countercurrents, 19 February, 2015:http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya190215.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[16]. UN Genocide Convention: http:\/\/www.edwebproject.org\/sideshow\/genocide\/convention.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[17]. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War:http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/ihl\/INTRO\/380<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[18]. \u201cGenocide in Iraq Volume I . The case against the UN Security Council and member states\u201d by Dr Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and \u00a0Tarik Al-Ani (foreword by Professor Joshua Castellino; Clarity Press, Atlanta).<\/p>\n

[19]. Gideon Polya \u201c\u201cGenocide in Iraq, The Case Against UN Security Council And Member States\u201d. Book review\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, <\/strong><\/strong>8 February, 2013: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya080213.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[20]. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tariq Al-Ani, \u201cGenocide in Iraq Volume II. The Obliteration of a ModernState\u201d (Clarity Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

[21]. Gideon Polya, \u201cReview: \u201cGenocide in Iraq Volume II. The obliteration of a modern state\u201d By Abdul-Haq Al-Ani & Tariq Al-Ani\u201d, Countercurrents,<\/strong> <\/strong>15 March 2015:http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya150315.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[22]. Harold Pinter, \u201cArt, Truth and politics\u201d, <\/em><\/em>Countercurrents<\/strong><\/strong>, 8 December, 2005:http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/arts-pinter081205.htm<\/a> .<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

[23]. <\/strong><\/strong>Edward S. Herman and\u00a0 David Peterson, \u201cThe Politics of Genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n

[24]. Gideon Polya, \u201cBook Review: \u201cThe Politics Of Genocide\u201d By Edward Herman And David Peterson\u201d, \u00a0Countercurrents, <\/strong><\/strong>05 December, 2011: http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya051211.htm<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[25]. <\/strong><\/strong>SEARCH Foundation, \u201c Australia’s former Prime Minister Howard accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague\u201d, Countercurrents, 7 June 2014:http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/searchnew2.pdf<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[26]. \u201c9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides\u201d:http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide\/9-january-2010<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[27]. \u201cMainstream media lying\u201d: http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mainstreammedialying\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

[28]. \u201cMuslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide\u201d:http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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