Posted by warvictims on May 20, 2008
Mental illness in Iraq rises as care falters
By Erica Goode
International Herald Tribune
In a different time, in another country, where violence and terror did not stalk the streets, Dr. Amir Hussain could practice psychiatry the way he once hoped to.
He can see it in his mind: the clean, tastefully decorated hospital wards, the well-stocked pharmacies, the gleaming laboratory equipment, the thickly carpeted consulting rooms, the halfway houses and outreach teams that help chronically ill patients reestablish their lives outside the hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on May 20, 2008
Afghan teenage cluster bomb victim battling for ban
By Robin Millard
Agence France Presse
Afghan teenager Soraj Ghulam Habib, whose legs were blown off by a cluster bomb, is campaigning hard for a ban on such lethal munitions that would spare other children from his tragic fate.
A 10-year-old boy when the unexploded bomblet left him close to death, Habib, now 17 and wheelchair-bound, is in Dublin to press officials from 109 countries who have gathered to thrash out a landmark ban on cluster bombs.
The conference, due to conclude on May 30, is aiming for a wide-ranging international pact that would completely eliminate the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions among signatories.
Habib’s childhood curiosity with a funny-looking object left him a whisker from death, yet another innocent civilian victim of deadly cluster bombs. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Clusters/Mines, Crossfire Injuries, Military | Tagged: Afghanistasn, bombs, children, Civilian Casualties, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, clusters, conflict, Dublin, Dublin talks, handicap, Kabul, landmines, peace, war | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on May 20, 2008
Military chiefs urge UK to ban cluster bombs
By Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian (London)
Some of the most senior British former generals and Nato commanders urged the government yesterday to agree to a total ban on cluster bombs, describing them as “inaccurate and unreliable”.
Their call came as negotiations began in Dublin for an international treaty outlawing cluster munitions, which scatter large numbers of bomblets over a wide area. Many of these fail to explode at the time, only to kill and maim civilians, often long after the conflict has ended. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Clusters/Mines, Diplomacy, Europe, Government, Military, United Kingdom | Tagged: Britain, China, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, clusters, Dublin, Dublin talks, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Israel, Military, Pakistan, Russia, uk, United Kingdom, us | Leave a Comment »
