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The civilian casualties from US and UK air strikes mounted daily.(March 2003,Baghdad)
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Omar was five-years-old when he suyddenly developed leukaemia. Twomonths before this photo was taken he was living happily with hisfamily. (December 2002, Baghdad)
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Japanese researchers investigate a tank graveyard contaminated withdepleted uranium dust and other hazardous materials. (December 2002,Basra)
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Another young child with leukaemia, on one of her first visits tohospital. It is unclear whether or not she recovered. (April 2003,Baghdad)
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Dakh, six-years-old, developed leukaemia late in 2001. Two days afterthis photo was taken she died in her hospital bed. (April 2002, Baghdad)
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Nadar died at the age of 25 after giving birth. The baby is now threemonths old. (April 2002, Basra)
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During the 1990s, the UN’s sanctions regime is thought to haveindirectly caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqis. In spite of theirbest efforts, malnutrition and a lack of medical equipment hamperedIraqi physicians attempts to treat cancer patients. This photo showsDr. Jawad Al-Ali. (May, 2002, Basra)
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The US and UK governments continue to deny any causal link betweendepleted uranium exposure and ill health, yet the incidence rates ofleukaemia and other cancers have risen sharply since 1991. (July2003, Basra)
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Such was the level of child mortality in the area; the city of Basrabuilt a Children’s Graveyard specifically to house theirbodies. (December 2002, Basra)
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A desperate father finally reaches a Baghdad hospital after carryinghis son from the Kurdish area to the north. His son has leukaemia andis in dire need of specialist medical care.
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The reality of ‘collateral damage’: a huge bomb droppedon a neighbouring telephone exchange destroyed this man’s home.(March 2003, Baghdad)
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I met this child on the streets of Baghdad the day after an airstrike had killed nearly 60 civilians in a nearby market. (March2003, Baghdad)
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A woman looks on uneasily as her husband is searched in front of a USM1A1 Abrams Tank at a US checkpoint. The Abrams is armed with a 120mmcannon that fires a range of depleted uranium ammunition. Each shellcontains a uranium penetrator dart weighing more than four kilograms.Up to 80% of this dart may be vaporized upon impact with a target,leaving large quantities of uranium dust in and around the wreckage.(April 2003, Baghdad)
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A lack of medical equipment means that there is little this mothercan do but try and soothe her terminally ill daughter. (December2002, Baghdad)
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This tank, which bears the scars from a depleted uranium strike, iscontaminated with chemically toxic and radioactive dust. It lies inthe middle of a heavily populated residential area and will remainthere for months. The tank battles of the 1991 Gulf War may well bethe last example of symmetrical warfare. In future, fighting willtake place within civilian areas, as parties seek to bog down morepowerful militaries. The implications of this should be of graveconcern to us all. (April 2003, Mahamdiya)
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The centre of Baghdad was repeatedly strafed by 30-mm depleteduranium rounds from A10 Warthog aircraft; larger than a VolkswagenBeetle, the GAU-8 Avenger cannon mounted on the aircraft can fire4000 rounds per minute, 80% of which are depleted uranium rounds.Each round contains 300 grams of depleted uranium. (April 2003, Baghdad)
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Victoria, the daughter of Iraq War Veteran Gerard Matthew, was bornmissing some of the fingers of her right hand. Gerard Matthew hastested positive for depleted uranium exposure and is suing the UnitedStates Department of Defense. (April, 2005, New York, USA)
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A doctor at a maternity ward in the state of Musanna shows photos of deformed babies born after the start of the Iraq War: “I havenever seen such cases before,” he said. “This is thefirst time." A memo written on the photo reads: A baby like amermaid, with only one leg. (March 2004, Samawa, Iraq)
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Gulf War veterans Herbert Reed, Gerard Matthew and Melissa Sterry,appealing for the abolition of DU weapons during the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in May2005. All were exposed to DU and all are ill.
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The air raids may have stopped, but the struggle is far from over forthe children in this leukaemia ward. (July 2003, Baghdad)
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Members of the Japanese Self-Defence Forces were sent to Iraq inFebruary 2004 by the Japanese Government, which acknowledged neitherthe use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq by Coalition forces northe danger that they posed. (March 2004, Samawa, Iraq)
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In spite of denying the dangers posed by depleted uranium weapons,the Japanese government insisted that all members of the Self-DefenceForces deployed in Iraq wear Geiger counters on their chests.However, these Geiger counters are incapable of measuring alpha raysor even the gamma rays emitted by the minute, scattered particles ofDU munitions. The Japanese Government’s behaviour towards itsown service personnel was nothing short of negligent. (March 2004,Samawa, Iraq)