US War & Climate Crimes

By Gideon Polya

ccun.org, January 27, 2008

 

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 is US$19 (in occupied Afghanistan) and US$135 (in occupied Iraq) as compared to US$2,560 (in the UK), US$3,123 (in Australia) and US$6,096 (in the US). 

Further,  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 US, UK, Australian, and other governments allied with the US are facing 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 victims of the  US-Oz Climate Genocide that have been transmitted to the Bali Conference-wrecking Australian Federal Government, see Rudd Australia Report Card:  http://ruddaustraliareportcard.blogspot.com/ . 

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: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/  and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/  ); see also his contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in  “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ).