Category: Human Rights

Total 48 Posts

Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use “Genocide”

Published on Truthout, 14 October 2014. Contamination from depleted uranium (DU) munitions is causing sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq, according to numerous Iraqi doctors. Iraqi doctors and prominent scientists believe that DU contamination is also connected to the emergence of diseases that were not previously

Democracy Now! Interviews Dahr Jamail on Fallujah Humanitarian Crisis

“Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies in Fallujah as Iraqi Gov’t Accused of Killing Over 100 Civilians” “A new report by Truthout has revealed doctors, residents and non-governmental organization workers in the city of Fallujah are accusing the Iraqi government of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its ongoing attack against the city. According to one account,