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Um milhão inoperante em Iraq: Nossa própria negação de Holocaust
Quinta-feira, novembro 22o, 2007
Institutionally unwilling considerar a responsabilidade de América para o bloodbath, os meios tradicionais recusaram reconhecer o número maciço dos Iraqis matados desde a invasão. Por Marque Weisbrot Institutionally unwilling considerar a responsabilidade de América para o bloodbath, os meios tradicionais recusaram reconhecer o número maciço dos Iraqis matados desde a invasão. O flirtation do presidente Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Iranian com aqueles que negam a realidade do genocide Nazi foi encontrado com direita com aversão. Mas uma outra negação do holocaust está ocorrendo com pouca observação: o holocaust em Iraq. O americano médio acredita que 10.000 civis Iraqi estiveram matados desde a invasão dos E.U. em março 2003. A figura o mais geralmente cited nos meios é 70.000. Mas o número real dos povos que foram matados é mais de um milhão mais provável. Esta é cinco vezes mais do que as estimativas das matanças em Darfur e ainda mais do que o genocide em Rwanda 13 anos há. A estimativa de mais de um milhão mortes violentas em Iraq foi confirmada outra vez dois meses há dentro uma votação pelo negócio britânico da pesquisa da opinião da empresa da votação, que estimou 1.220.580 mortes violentas desde a invasão dos E.U. Isto é consistente com o estudo conduzido por doutores e por cientistas da escola da universidade de Johns Hopkins da saúde pública mais do que um ano há. Seu estudo foi publicado no Lancet, jornal médico principal de Grâ Bretanha. Estimou 601.000 matados povos devido à violência até à data de julho 2006; mas se atualizado na base das mortes desde que o estudo, esta estimativa seria também mais do que milhão. Estas estimativas não incluem aquelas que morreram por causa dos problemas de saúde pública criados pela guerra, including avarias em sistemas e em eletricidade do sewerage, faltas das medicinas, etc. Surpreendente, alguns journalists e editores - e naturalmente alguns políticos - demitem tais medidas porque são baseados na amostragem aleatória da população melhor que em uma contagem completa dos mortos. Quando seria errado responsabilizar qualquer um por sua falta da instrução, esta negligência para métodos e resultados científicos é inexcusable. Como um observador o pôs succinctly: if you don’t believe in random sampling, the next time your doctor orders a blood test, tell him that he needs to take all of it. The methods used in the estimates of Iraqi deaths are the same as those used to estimate the deaths in Darfur, which are widely accepted in the media. They are also consistent with the large numbers of refugees from the violence (estimated at more than four million). There is no reason to disbelieve them, or to accept tallies such as that the Iraq Body Count (73,305 - 84,222), which include only a small proportion of those killed, as an estimate of the overall death toll. Of course, acknowledging the holocaust in Iraq might change the debate over the war. While Iraqi lives do not count for much in US politics, recognizing that a mass slaughter of this magnitude is taking place could lead to more questions about how this horrible situation came to be. Right now a convenient myth dominates the discussion: the fall of Saddam Hussein simply unleashed a civil war that was waiting to happen, and the violence is all due to Iraqis’ inherent hatred of each other. In fact, there is considerable evidence that the occupation itself - including the strategy of the occupying forces - has played a large role in escalating the violence to holocaust proportions. It is in the nature of such an occupation, where the vast majority of the people are opposed to the occupation and according to polls believe it is right to try and kill the occupiers, to pit one ethnic group against another. This was clear when Shiite troops were sent into Sunni Fallujah in 2004; it is obvious in the nature of the death-squad government, where officials from the highest levels of the Interior Ministry to the lowest ranking police officers - all trained and supported by the US military - have carried out a violent, sectarian mission of “ethnic cleansing.” (The largest proportion of the killings in Iraq are from gunfire and executions, not from car bombs). It has become even more obvious in recent months as the United States is now arming both sides of the civil war, including Sunni militias in Anbar province as well as the Shiite government militias. Is Washington responsible for a holocaust in Iraq? That is the question that almost everyone here wants to avoid. So the holocaust is denied Have Your Say: One Million Dead in Iraq: Our Own Holocaust Denial Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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