A mother weeps for her sick or dying child. (War is violent - again dark colours of greenish black in the foreground and greens and yellows on a very ill child. A distraught mother unable to get help for her child who is a victim of war. It is a very sad scene.)

 

An Iraqi family in a barren picture of life in Iraq. (This painting is similar to Pablo Picasso's Blue Family. It is a sombre picture done in faded colours almost as if life is being drawn from the two figures and the children at their feet. There is no evidence of life from the trees, as if they too are in the mode of death.)

 

A skeletal Uncle Sam sticking a knife in Iraq. (A very graphic picture of a child's interpretation of a violent America killing Iraqi people - children included.)

 

Khalid and his mother in Al Mansur Hospital, Baghdad, December, 1996. Khalid means "eternal." Khalid had a neuroblastoma. He died in August, 1997.

Muhammed. Al Mansur Hospital, Baghdad, 1996. Muhammed had leukemia. He died in March, 1997.

 

Nassar Feyath, age 1. Severe malnutrition. Weight: 9.47 lbs. Ideal weight: 22 lbs.
Basrah, December, 1996.

 

Dunia Faleh, 9 months old, has diarrhoea and nutritional marasmus. Weight is 4 Kg; ideal weight would be 8 Kg.
Basrah, September, 1998. (Photo by Chuck Quilty)

 

Mashgal Anur, Adras Hussein and Misal, all under 1 year old, all suffering from nutritional marasmus.
Their mothers, at the Basrah Paediatric Hospital, one by one presented their children for the photographer.
"The U.S. government wants the next generation weak and mentally retarded," said Dr. Firas Abdul Abbas.
Photo by Chuck Trapkus, May, 1998.

 

One of two twins at Basrah Paediatrics and Gynaecology Hospital with severe jaundice. No treatment was available for them.
Sept., 1998. (Photo by Chuck Quilty)

 

Abasra Rial, a 14 day old child with congenital malformation - note contorted leg and foot.
Basrah, Sept., 1998. (Photo by Chuck Quilty)

 

Baby girl, Bushra, less than one day old and congenitally malformed - feet are web-shaped and appear to be attached.
Basrah, September, 1998. (Photo by Chuck Quilty)

 

Baby boy Muntiha, less than one day old with congenital malformation. The baby has only stumps for arms and legs. In a hospital with 35-40 deliveries/day, they were averaging 13 congenital malformations/month. There were three such births on the day the photo was taken.
Basrah, September, 1998. (Photo by Chuck Quilty)

 

Noor, six years old, lies partially beneath the rubble after an American AGM-130 missile
hit the Al Jumhuriya neighbourhood of Basra on January 25, 1999.
Photo Credit: Nabil Al Jorani.

 

One of Noor's sisters, also killed on Jan. 25, 1999 by an American missile.
Photo Credit: Nabil Al-Jorani.

 

Noor's father holds the lifeless body of one of his children, 1-25-99.
Photo Credit: Nabil Al-Jorani.

 

A young woman from Basra, Iraq, holds her small child who is suffering from extreme malnutrition at Al Mansour Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq.

 

Salmeh Mohammed tries to comfort her son Jassim, 12, who is dying of leukemia at the Al Mansour Hospital in Baghdad.
There is no medicine available to treat her son who has been struggling against the disease for a year.

 

Leukaemia slowly kills this boy while his mother looks on in Basra.

 

The emergency room at Al Mansur Hospital in Baghdad.

 

The father of 2-year-old Nemya grips her death certificate while talking to a doctor moments after she died from meningitis in a quarantined room at the hospital. A 50-cent tube could have saved the youngster's life, one doctor says. But the hospital has none. Impossible to obtain under the sanctions, another doctor says.

 

Zahra, 7 months old. Nutritional marasmus and very close to death. February 1998

 

Amar, 3 months old. Nutritional marasmus. Weight at birth: 10.3 lb. Current weight: 6.8 lb. Ideal weight: 13.2 lb.
Basrah, December 1996.

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WARNING

The following are extremely disturbing pictures of deformities in Iraqi children from 1998 onwards

Taken from: http://www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extremedeformities.htm

This child is completely covered in a white susbstance of unknown properties. Obvious deformation of face and eyes.
Flash photography at close range obscures detail.

 

Severe body deformity, with head formed at 90 degree angle to upper torso.

Lack of focus obscures detail, but missing eyes are clearly visible, as is deformity of the mouth.

 

Horrendous deformity of entire body and head. Note lack of eyes and malformation of the hands and feet.

 

Child with unknown defomity of the mouth, possibly a large tumour grown during foetal stage.

 

Severe malformation of face.

 

Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves.

 

Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves.

 

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