About 0.5 million infants die avoidably each year in the US Occupied Territories, 9.5 million die world-wide annually under Obama and 60 million will die annually through climate genocide. In despair we ask can Children save the World’s children through school genocide and war crimes tribunals?
Let us examine these shocking numbers that derive from authoritative sources.
1. Passive mass murder of over 4 million infants in US Alliance wars (1990-2009).
Consulting UNICEF we obtain the following estimates of “annual under-5 infant deaths” in the following countries subject to occupation by the US or US-backed surrogates: Occupied Afghanistan (338,000), Occupied Haiti (21,0000), Occupied Iraq (41,000), Occupied Palestinian Territory (4,000), and Occupied Somalia (54,000), for a total of 458,000 per annum (i.e. about 0.5 million) and 1,255 per day. Note that this analysis ignores Occupied Diego Garcia that has been completely ethnically cleansed, partially occupied countries such as Lebanon and Syria and countries subject to ongoing US-backed wars, notably the US robot-bombed NW Provinces of Pakistan. About 90% of these infant deaths are avoidable and due to non-supply of life-preserving requisites by the war criminal US or US surrogate Occupiers.
However this assessment ignores US hegemony over much of the Planet in addition to the territories that the US and its surrogates are actually militarily occupying, namely Occupied Haiti (originally invaded by US forces, now replaced by US-backed UN forces), Occupied Somalia (by the US, US-backed Ethiopia and US-backed African Union forces), Occupied Cyprus (by US ally Turkey), Occupied Palestine, Occupied Lebanon (the Shebaa Farms area), Occupied Jordan and Occupied Syria (by US-backed Apartheid Israel), Occupied Iraq, Occupied Diego Garcia, Occupied Afghanistan (by the US Alliance) and US robot-bombed NW Pakistan (US robot occupation from the air – no wedding parties or family picnics are safe from US mass murder).
UN Population Division data tell us that post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in the still-occupied Occupied Haitian, Somalian, Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 0.08 million, 0.2 million, 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively. To this we can add the 1.2 million Iraqi under-5 year old infants who died under Sanctions (1990-2003) to yield a horrendous total of 4.6 million under-5 year old deaths of which 90% were avoidable i.e. 4.1 million avoidable infant deaths due to US Alliance war crimes.
A major part of these ongoing war crimes is the US Alliance occupation of Afghanistan (the ongoing Afghan Genocide) and the human cost is revealed by UNICEF statistics – 338,000 under-5 year old infants die each year in Occupied Afghanistan, 90% avoidably and largely because the Occupier refuses to supply life-sustaining food and medical supplies unequivocally demanded of an Occupier by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War “to the fullest extent of the means available to it”.
WHO informs us that the total annual per capita health expenditure permitted by the US Alliance in Occupied Afghanistan is $29 as compared to $6,714 for Occupier United States of America (aka United States of Israel).
The bottom line in any comparative analysis of violent wrongdoing is consequential death. The current “annual death rate” is 7% for Occupied Afghan under-5 year old infants under the US Alliance – as compared to that of 4% (for Poles under the Nazis in WW2), 5% (French Jews under the Nazis and the Nazi-collaborator Vichy régime in WW2), 13% (Australian POWs of the Japanese in WW2) and 19% (Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe) (see “Polish Holocaust (1939-1945) & Afghan Holocaust (2001- )” ).
2. Passive mass murder of 9.5 million infants annually on First World-dominated Spaceship Earth.
There is an even bigger picture of avoidable child mortality that encompasses not just the evil American Empire but much of the rest of the World.
Recent estimates published in Global Research indicate that the US military currently has 737 military bases in 63 countries and 2.4 million military personnel in a total of 156 countries. Further, the US with 5% of the world’s population consumes 25% of the world’s resources. Accordingly, the US makes a major contribution to global avoidable mortality (excess deaths, avoidable deaths) that in the period 1950-2005 totalled 1.3 billion (the World), 1.2 billion (the non-European World) and 0.6 billion (the Muslim World), these estimate being consonant with UN Population Division data indicating 1950-2005 under-5 year old infant deaths that totalled 0.85 billion (the World), 0.8 billion (the non-European World) and 0.4 billion (the Muslim World).
While excess deaths in the period 1950-2005 totalled 82 million in countries actually militarily occupied by the US in the post-1945 period, the US Alliance (the US, UK, France, NATO, Australasia, Japan) has a much greater share of responsibility for the 1950-2005 global avoidable holocaust of 1.3 billion avoidable deaths. Accordingly, the US under Obama is a major contributor to the annual global avoidable mortality of 16 million avoidable deaths, with 9.5 million of these being of under-5 year old infants (for details see my book “Body Count. Global Avoidable mortality since 1950”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).
3. 6 billion infants are predicted to perish in climate genocide due to unaddressed, man-made global warming.
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