-- Critical Media Literacy
in Times of War

IRAQ UNDER SANCTIONS:

CASUALTIES

How many Iraqi children have died as a result of sanctions?
hundreds of thousands	"The Bloodstained Path" The Progressive, Dennis Kucinich "The time has come for us to end the sanctions against Iraq, because those sanctions punish the people of Iraq for having Saddam Hussein as their leader. These sanctions have been instrumental in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. Emergency relief should be expedited. Free trade, except in arms, must be permitted." (November, 2002)
100,000+	"The politics of dead children: Have sanctions against Iraq murdered millions?" Reason, Matt Welch "It seems awfully hard not to conclude that the embargo on Iraq has been ineffective (especially since 1998) and that it has, at the least, contributed to more than 100,000 deaths since 1990." (March 2002)
343,900+	"After victory, US., allies would shoulder Iraq's woes; Health, economy ravaged by war, sanctions, neglect" The Baltimore Sun, Mark Matthews "Garfield [RIchard Garfield, a public-health expert at Columbia University], using the UNICEF data and what he calls conservative estimates of population trends, concludes that at least 343,900 'excess deaths' have occurred among children younger than 5 over the past 12 years. 'Excess deaths' means the number of deaths above the pre-1990 rate " (October 24, 2002, p. A1)
400,000	"Caught in the crossfire" The Toronto Star, Lynda Hurst "As many as 1 million Iraqis have died as a result of them, they say - and 400,000 of the victims were babies or young children." (October 6, 2002, p.B1)
500,000	"In Baghdad, U.S. activists roll up sleeves to give blood, not shed it" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Larry Johnson "United Nations officials estimate that 500,000 children have died since 1991 in the wake of the war damage and subsequent international sanctions.: (October 10, 2002)
600,000	"European NGOs Light a Candle in Iraq's Darkness" Agence France Press, Mohamed Hasni "The embargo has badly hit children, the most vulnerable segment of the population, the NGOs say. Some 600,000 of them have died as a result of the sanctions." (October 19, 2002)
750,000	"From the Cradle of Civilization to the Declaration of Independence in 25 Steps " The Observer (London), Tom Templeton "Number of Iraqi children under five years old, estimated to have died by 1997, as a result of the sanctions: 750,000" (September 29, 2002, p.11)
one million+	"12 Americans Stage Protest Hussein Is Happy to Allow" The New York Times, John F. Burns "Iraq's contention, considered wildly exaggerated by many who have studied the issue, is that the sanctions have caused more than 1.7 million deaths, including those of a million children, through malnutrition and disease resulting from shortages of food and medicines." (October 27, 2002, p.8)
	"What War Means to the Iraqi People" CounterPunch, Romi Mahajan "Children suffer the most. The sanctions themselves have directly led to the deaths of over 1 million Iraqi children." (October 11, 2002)