Iraq's children between despair and death

Truth About Iraqis

One in every eight children will not reach the age of five in Iraq. There are no oxygen masks, no medicines for such basic afflictions as diarrhea. There are no doctors in Iraq because the security situation under occupation is such that ALL doctors have been targeted by militia, foreign terrorists and the US military. "According to the report, Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased by a staggering 150 percent since 1990. Some 122,000 Iraqi children died in 2005 before reaching their fifth birthday. More than half of these deaths were among newborn babies in the first month of life," says a report published by the US-based SAVE THE CHILDREN Organization. Consider Iraq's future when you weigh the above statistics to the fact that 60 percent of Iraq's population is comprised of children...

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