US
Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?
By Dr Gideon Polya
08 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Post-invasion
non-violent excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan - a month on from
the 6th anniversary of the war criminal US invasion and occupation on
7th October 2001 – now total an estimated 3.2 million. However
comparisons with Occupied Iraq (1.5-2 million TOTAL post-invasion excess
deaths, and 0.8-1.2 million or about 50% of these being VIOLENT deaths)
suggest that the post-invasion violent excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan
could total 3 million.
The racist, war criminal
US military state that they “don’t do body counts”
of Indigenous victims but publicly-accessible UN demographic data allow
us to estimate the carnage as outlined below.
Consult UNICEF (see:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry
/afghanistan_statistics.html ) and you will find the estimate that
370,000 under-5 year old infants die each year in Occupied Afghanistan.
From an exhaustive country-by-country analysis of excess death (avoidable
death, death that should not have happened) it can be determined that
for impoverished, worst case Third world countries the under-5 infant
deaths are about 0.7 of total non-violent excess deaths (see “Layperson’s
“A Layperson’s Guide to counting Iraq deaths”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/
). Accordingly we can estimate that total post-invasion non-violent
excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan after 6.1 years of war total 370,000
x 6.1 / 0.7 = 3.2 million.
ASSUMING roughly 1 violent
death for every non-violent avoidable death (as in US-occupied Occupied
Iraq as detailed below) yields an estimate of post-invasion VIOLENT
excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan of about 3 million and accordingly
a total of 3.0 million + 3.2 million = 6.2 million excess deaths - more
than the number of Jews who died in the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust
(6 million) or the number of Bengalis who died in the man-made, WW2
Bengali Holocaust, the WW2 Bengal Famine in British-ruled India (4 million
victims; accompanied by horrendous civilian and military sexual abuse
of starving women and girls; associated with a 1940s demographic deficit
of over 10 million in Bengal; possibly due to a deliberate British “scorched
earth policy” to prevent Japanese invasion of India; and rubbed
out of British history books) (see “Jane Austen and the Black
Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the
crisis in biological sustainability”: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/
).
Occupied Afghanistan is indeed
the 21st century Auschwitz of the racist, war criminal US Alliance countries
– the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and NATO countries
such as France and Germany are complicit in these estimated over 6 million
post-invasion violent and non-violent excess Afghan deaths.
Recent authoritative estimates
of violence-related post-invasion excess deaths in occupied Iraq are
of 1.2 million (from the expert UK ORB polling company) and 0.8 million
(from the top US Bloomberg School of Public Health group at Johns Hopkins
University who estimated 0.6 million violent deaths as of July 2006).
Authoritative estimates of
non-violent post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq as of November
2007 are of 0.7 million (from the latest UN Population Division data)
and of 0.8 million (calculated from United Nations Children’s
Fund, UNICEF, data on post-invasion under-5 year old infant deaths;
for impoverished Third World countries the under-5 infant deaths are
about 0.7 of the total excess deaths, as described in “A Layperson’s
Guide to counting Iraq deaths”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/
).
From this one can estimate
total post-invasion violent and non-violent occupied Iraqi excess deaths
and these clearly range from 0.7 million + 0.8 million = 1.5 million
(minimum estimate) to 0.8 million + 1.2 million = 2.0 million (upper
estimate) (see “Iraq; Genocide by all definition. Bush’s
Iraq War. 2 million Iraqi excess deaths”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17066/42/
).
The excess death toll in
the Bush I plus Bush II Wars in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan
alone (a Bush Asian Holocaust in which my own country Australia is intimately
complicit) has thus now reached an upper estimate of 8.2 million –
but this of course is NOT reported by racist, lying, holocaust-ignoring
Australian or Western mainstream media or politicians.
However this estimate climbs
steeply if we add the retrospectively Bush I- and Bush II-complicit
excess deaths in Israel’s US-backed wars and occupations of Lebanon
(1978-2007; 70,000) and of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (1967-2007;
0.31 million); the US Gulf War (1990-1991; 0.2 million); the US Sanctions
War (1990-2003; 1.7 million); and the about 0.5 million who have died
avoidably since 9/11 from opiate drug-related causes due to the UK-US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about
5% of world market share in 2001 to a current 93% (see UN Office on
Drugs and Crime, UNODC, 2007 World Drug Report: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html
and “United State Terrorism. 8 million deaths & media holocaust
denial”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17139/42/
) -. all of this yielding 2.8 million excess deaths, which plus
8.2 million excess deaths for post-invasion Occupied Iraq and Occupied
Afghanistan yields an estimate of 11 million excess deaths associated
with the Bush Asian Wars.
A major cause of the NON-violent
deaths is gross Occupier violation of the Geneva Convention that demands
unequivocally that an Occupier “to the fullest extent of the means
available to it” supplies life-sustaining medical and food requisites
to its conquered subjects (see Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention
relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm
). Consult WHO (see: http://www.who.int/en/
) and you will discover that the “annual total per capita medical
expenditure” permitted in Occupied Iraq by the US Coalition is
$135 (2004) as compared to $19 (Occupied Afghanistan), $2,560 (UK),
$3,123 (Australia) and $6,096 (the US) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17139/42/
).
It gets worse. I am currently
working with a fellow Australian academic on a book project about the
wider global impact of the Iraq War. In short, 16 million people die
avoidably each year (9.6 million of them under-5 year old infants) due
to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (see “Body
Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
). The accrual cost of the 21st century part of the Bush Wars has been
estimated at $2.5 trillion by the US 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) and his Harvard colleague Professor Linda
Bilmes (see “Iraq: the hidden cost of the War”: http://www.newstatesman.com/200703120024
and “The Cost of War”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/
). This horrendous distortion translates into huge avoidable infant
deaths in the US alone (an estimated 160,000 such under-5 year old avoidable
American infant deaths in 8 years of the Bush II Administration).
There has clearly also been
a big distortion by the Bush War on Terror in relation to matters such
as global militarization, foreign aid, Third World debt relief, increased
oil prices, biofuel expansion, decreased global food, increased global
food prices, and failure to address global warming – all of these
areas contributing to16 million global avoidable deaths each year on
Spaceship Earth with the First World in charge of the flight deck and
Bush II at the controls.
With Racist Zionist-beholden
Bush America and Racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel threatening to
devastate remote, peaceful, non-invading, non-occupying, non-threatening,
non-nuclear armed, democratic Iran (population 70 million, half of them
KIDS and three quarters Women and Children), perhaps the best advice
about how the World can stop these proto-Nazi, racist war-mongers is
that given by outstanding CONSERVATIVE American economist, writer, academic
and “Father of Reaganomics” Dr Paul Craig Roberts (see:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02122007.html
), QUOTE :
“Dump the Dollar! How
the World can stop Bush … If the rest of the world would simply
stop purchasing US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars
into the foreign exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed
with economic crisis and unable to wage war ...The demise of the US
dollar is only a question of time. It would save the world from war
and devastation if the dollar is brought to its demise before the Bush
Regime launches its planned attack on Iran.”
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/
).
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