America presides over medical neglect in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as climate crimes

by Dr Gideon Polya

Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand that an Occupier does everything "to the fullest extent of the means available to it" to ensure the health and lives of Conquered subjects. Yet according to WHO, total annual per capita medical expenditure in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories respectively is $US 19 (Occupied Afghanistan) and US$135 (Occupied Iraq) as compared to $US 2,560 in the United Kingdom, $US 3,123 in Australia and $US 6,096 in the U.S.

Furthermore, UNICEF informs us that 0.5 million under-5 year old infants die in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories each year (1,400 daily, roughly ONE EVERY MINUTE, 90% avoidably and largely due to US "Alliance" war crimes).

The U.S., UK, Australian and other US Alliance Governments are subject to prosecution as war criminals complicit in the ongoing Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 1.5-2 million; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.6 million; 4.5 million refugees) and Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 3-6 million; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 2.2 million; 4 million refugees).

For detailed, documented analyses of the above and the prospective 6 billion-victim U.S.-Australian Climate Genocide that have been transmitted to the Bali Conference-wrecking Australian Federal Government see Rudd Australia Report Card: LINK

About the writer:

Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: LINK and LINK); see also his contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: LINK).

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