Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say (women and children)

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IRAQ: Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say

04 Jan 2005 14:56:16 GMT

Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

FALLUJAH, 4 January (IRIN) - "It was really distressing picking up dead bodies from destroyed homes, especially children. It is the most depressing situation I have ever been in since the war started," Dr Rafa'ah al-Iyssaue, director of the main hospital in Fallujah city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, told IRIN.

According to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

Doctors at the hospital claim that many bodies had been found in a mutilated condition, some without legs or arms. Two babies were found at their homes, who are believed to have died from malnutrition, according to a specialist at the hospital.


....He explained that many of the dead had been already buried by civilians from the Garma and Amirya districts of Fallujah after approval from US-led forces nearly three weeks ago, and those bodies had not been counted. ......

Liberating them from their health, happiness and homes.

to fly over this place to see what his man-made disaster has done to the citizens of Iraq?

that this trauma was much, much worse than the traumas of war wasn't lost on me either.

:(