Every ten minutes, an Iraqi child dies as a result of the disastrous sanctions. People in Iraq are nowadays suffering severely from the lack of food, medicine and clean water. About twenty million people live in Iraq. Five hundred to one hundred thousand Iraqi children die every year. In the first eight months of the year 1991, forty seven thousand children died.
Nothing whatsoever can justify the death of such a great number of people.
The Americans have devastated every aspect of Iraqi life, its economy, its educational, electrical and water systems. Iraqis are suffering from water borne diseases, malnutrition and many other incurable diseases. The Iraqis are cruelly being tortured. During the Gulf War, the Americans bombed the shelter where Iraqi civilians were hiding, and killed hundreds of men, women and innocent children who were fighting for a better life away from all kinds of violence. This shelter that was destroyed without mercy is known as Al-Ammeriah Shelter .