Asia
By DU, Africa By AIDS
By Hamid Golpira
09 August, 2007
Tehran
Times
Today
is Nagasaki Day, a time for reflection on weapons of mass destruction,
genocide, and man's inhumanity to man.
This is the 62nd anniversary
of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which will be holding a solemn ceremony
in memory of the victims of that tragedy and to encourage people to
work for world peace and nuclear disarmament. Similar ceremonies were
held on August 6 in Hiroshima and other places to mark the anniversary
of the first nuclear attack on a city.
In the Hiroshima Peace Declaration
2007, describing the scene of the parachute descending with the atomic
bomb that destroyed his city 62 years ago, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said:
"The eyes of young girls watching the parachute were melted. Their
faces became giant charred blisters… Hiroshima was a hell where
those who somehow survived envied the dead."
Elsewhere in his speech,
he said: "To ensure that 'no one else ever suffers as we did,'
the hibakusha (atomic bombing survivors) have continuously spoken of
experiences they would rather forget, and we must never forget their
accomplishments in preventing a third use of nuclear weapons."
Truly it is a great accomplishment
that the hibakusha have prevented a third use of nuclear weapons.
However, another type of
radiological weapon, depleted uranium, has been used by the U.S. military
in Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. There is also some
evidence that Israel used depleted uranium munitions in Lebanon during
the 2006 war.
DU causes genetic damage,
birth defects, cancer, immune system damage, and other serious health
problems and is probably the cause of Persian Gulf War Syndrome.
Physicians in Iraq have documented
a threefold increase in childhood cancers and a fivefold increase in
birth defects since the U.S. military first used DU weapons in southern
Iraq in 1991.
To see horrible pictures
of babies deformed as a result of genetic damage caused by depleted
uranium weapons, go to these sites:
http://www.uksociety.org/us_c
rimes_against-humanit y_1.htm,
http://wake-up-america.net/depleted_uranium.htm,
http://bitterfact.tripod.com/iraq/iraq_babies.html
,
http://sundaymag.ca/index.php?id=64,
http://www.rense.com/general35/perp.htm,
and http://images.google.com/images?
um=1&tab=wi&am p;amp;hl=en&q=du%20babies.
The use of depleted uranium
weapons is a genocidal act that is part of a global depopulation program.
According to some scientists,
large areas of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, northern Pakistan, northern
India, and Central Asia could become depopulated as a result of contamination
caused by depleted uranium dust carried by the wind.
Other scientists say that
only the areas attacked with DU weapons will become depopulated.
However, it appears that
the U.S. military has contingency plans to attack other countries in
the region. Perhaps these plans were drawn up to complete the devastation.
Meanwhile, Africa is being
decimated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In several African countries, over
10 percent of the population is HIV positive.
In three articles published
in the International Journal of STD and AIDS in 2002 and 2003, an international
team of scientists led by Dr. David Gisselquist said that more than
half the cases of AIDS in Africa before 1988 were due to unsterilized
syringes and other medical exposures to contaminated blood and only
about 30 percent of cases, not the 90 percent claimed, were sexually
transmitted.
Even now, in many places
in Africa, especially rural areas, syringes are still being reused.
So, why is the World Health
Organization not providing enough syringes to Africa, and why are the
rich countries not funding such a project?
This is either complete incompetence
or indifference or a deliberate act.
Many activists say there
is a policy of deliberate neglect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa
that is part of a program to depopulate the continent.
Asia by DU, Africa by AIDS,
and we can add South America by hunger and poverty. If this is not a
world depopulation program, what is it?
At the end of the Hiroshima
Peace Declaration 2007, Mayor Akiba said: "Let us pledge here and
now to take all actions required to bequeath to future generations a
nuclear-weapon-free world."
But, in light of the depleted
uranium assault on Asia and the neglect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
Africa, we should do more.
Let us also pledge here and
now to take all actions required to bequeath to future generations a
genocide-free world.
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