Gideon Polya: Australian complicity in Iraq mortality

"Former Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Dr Gideon Polya researched and analysed avoidable global mass mortality. He also talks about the refusal of Anglo/American media to report avoidable mass mortality and other atrocities linked to Western activities:

Gideon Polya: "... an extraordinary feature of the post-war world has been the resolute refusal of Anglo-American media to report avoidable mass mortality and other atrocities linked to Western activities. Thus in 1943-44 a man-made, market-forces famine killed an estimated 4-million Hindu and Muslim Bengalis in British-ruled India, but most Australians will simply never have heard of this ‘forgotten holocaust’ ...

"The post-1950 avoidable mortality has been 1.3-billion for the world, 1-billion for the Third World and 0.5-billion for the Muslim World, a Muslim Holocaust 100 times greater than the Jewish Holocaust or the contemporaneous but ‘forgotten’ Bengal Famine in British-ruled India.

"... I have written widely on this matter and a Google search for ‘Gideon Polya’ will allow ready access to this information.

"For example, the post-1950 infant mortality in Asian and Pacific countries in which Australia has been involved militarily in that period totals 34-million.

"... US authorities have repeatedly stated that they do not keep records of civilian casualties. However as with the children overboard, the weapons of mass destruction and the torture of Iraqi prisoners, the truth eventually emerges.

"The latest UNICEF report in 2005 estimates that for the year 2003 the under-5 infant mortality was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan and 1,000 in the invading and occupying country Australia (noting that these countries have populations of about 25-million, 24-million and 20-million respectively).

"... one can readily calculate that there have been about 0.4-million avoidable deaths in post-invasion Iraq.

"... I have calculated that the under-5 infant mortality was 1.2-million for Iraq since 1991; 0.2-million for Iraq since the 2003 invasion; and 0.9-million for Afghanistan since the 2001 [sic] invasion ...

"Jihadist violence has taken roughly about 5,000 Western civilian lives over the last 20 years, with most of the victims dying on 9/11 (about 3,000) and the remainder including murdered Israeli civilians and the victims of atrocities such as Madrid, Lockerbie and Bali.

"However this jihadist violence has had immensely bloodier consequences through the hysterically and dishonestly promoted War on Terror that has been associated with post-invasion avoidable deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan alone that total 1.6-million.

"The War on Terror has substantially helped to produce a post-9/11 extra profit for the US military-industrial complex of about $US500-billion ...

"Silence kills. Silence is complicity. Please inform everyone, discuss this with your associates and then act as responsible citizens. We cannot walk by on the other side."
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