Both had lost members of their families. Never in my lifetime do I expect to experience such forgiveness. Thus was Voices in the Wilderness born. With each visit Kelly charts the further decline from the impossible to the apocalyptic. When one scratches beneath the surface, Iraq is literally dying under the weight of the embargo.
Malnutrition is endemic, reaching fifty to sixty percent of the population outside Baghdad.
More than half the country drinks water infected with typhoid, cholera and E-coli bacteria. Two million people including seven hundred and fifty thousand children four times the population of Liechtenstein are estimated to have died as a result of the embargo. Other staples have risen in price up to five thousand times. Children who contribute to the UN Agencies clinically assessed statistics haunt the Voices group. His father, a veteran of the Iran Iraq war, who had spent a year in jail in Iran, had given so much blood, that he could currently give no more.