Felicity Arbuthnot reports from Global Research
(May 7th):
In
Iraq there is an ongoing massacre. Below are the figures of the dead and
wounded brought daily, to just one hospital in the country’s largest
governorate, Anbar Province, the Emergency Department of the Fallujah General
Hospital, between 28th February 2014 and 7th May 2014.
They
are the victims of the US imposed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s militias.
The
UN representative in Iraq is near silent, the varying Ambassadors in Iraq are
silent, including those of the US and UK, whose actions and lies about fictional
“weapons of mass destruction” are responsible for the ongoing, daily carnage.
Eleven relentless years of death and heartbreak.
Normal
services such as clean water, constant electricity are non-existent (imagine the
nightmare of working with interruptions in a hospital of the machinery needed to
keep patients alive, resuscitated, monitored, anaesthetized.) Wednesday 7th May:
Government troops targeted the Doctors’ Residence at the hospital at 1 a.m.,
causing extensive damage, hit “by two projectiles.” It is the twelfth time the
hospital has been bombed and the third time that the Doctors’ quarters have been
hit.
Hospitals
are afforded special protection under the 1949 Geneva Convention as are all
staff, not alone medical, but drivers, clerical, cleaners, cooks, maintenance.
Attacking one is a war crime. But the troops have learned well from the
Americans who of course boasted of training them and who on Sunday 7th November
2004: “… stormed the Falluja General Hospital.