Afghan War, Afghan Holocaust And Afghan Genocide 9th Anniversary - 4.9 Million Dead, 3.2 Million Refugees
17 October 2010By Dr Gideon Polya
The Afghan War has now entered its 10th year. It has
become the longest US war. As of 7 October 2010, the
9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the
human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as
about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent
avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation.
The ongoing, US Alliance-imposed Afghan Holocaust and
Afghan Genocide has now reached the dimensions of the
World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6
dying from deprivation). Decent people around the
world must continue to vigorously oppose this gross
violation of Humanity. To assist such decent folk I
have prepared a carefully documented Afghan War Deaths
Fact Sheet as set out below and incorporating the
latest information as of 7 October 2010.
1. Post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths from
deprivation total 3.7 million. [1].
2. Post-invasion violent deaths total 1.2 million
(assuming advice that the level of violence has been 4
times lower in the Afghan War than in the Iraq War and
an Iraq War violent deaths/non-violent deaths ratio of
1.3). [1, 2, 3].
3. Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.6
million. [1].
4. Afghan refugees total 3.2 million, this comprising
2.7 million in Iran and Pakistan and 0.4 million
internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan).
[4].
5. The US bombing and US-backed Pakistani Army
offensive in NW Pakistan generated 2.5 million Pashtun
refugees. [5].
6. Annual under-5 infant deaths in Occupied
Afghanistan total 311,000, 90% avoidable and due to
war-imposed deprivation. [6]
7. It has been estimated that the annual death rate is
7% for under-5 year old Afghan infants as compared to
4% for Poles in Nazi-occupied Poland and 5% for French
Jews in Nazi-occupied France. [7].
8. Annual per capita total health expenditure
permitted by the Occupiers in Occupied Afghanistan
totals US$29 as compared to US$3,122 for Occupier
Australia. [8].
9. Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 42/43. [8].
10. Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years,
2003): 35/36. [8].
11. Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live
births): 257. [8].
12. Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f
(per 1 000 population): 500/443. [8].
13. % of under-fives (2003–2008) suffering from
stunting (WHO) moderate & severe: 59%. [6].
14. Adult literacy rate: females as a % of males,
2003–2007: 29%. [6].
15. Maternal mortality ratio (annual number of deaths
of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000
live births): 1,800. [6].
16. US military deaths in and around Afghanistan in
the Afghan War total 1,246 and Australian military
deaths total 22. [9].
17. About 100,000 people die avoidably from opiate
drug-related causes each year. The US Alliance
restored the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry
from 6% of world market share in 2001 to over 90%
today. It can accordingly be estimated that about 0.1
million people per year x 0.9 x 9 years = 0.8 million
people have died globally due to US Alliance
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium
industry, this including about 100,000 Americans and
3,000 Australians. [10, 11, 12, 13].
18. Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz
(Columbia University) and Professor Linda Bilmes
(Harvard University) estimated the accrual cost of the
Iraq War alone at over $3 trillion with huge impacts
on oil prices, the Afghan war, US federal debt,
liabilities for injured veterans, the global financial
crisis and US recession. Dr Michael Intriligator, a
senior fellow at the US Milken Institute, has
suggested a long-term cost of the Afghan War at $1.5
trillion to $2.0 trillion. Australia's involvement
costs about $1 billion annually. [14, 15].
19. Perverted fiscal diversion for the Afghan War
continues to have mortal consequences in the US and
other US Alliance countries such as Australia. Thus it
has been estimated that about 1 million Americans die
preventably each year from poverty, deprivation or
violence (e.g. 30,000 Americans are killed by guns
each year, 44 million Americans live in poverty and
the difference between infant mortality rates between
Singapore and the world's richest country, the US,
indicates that about 20,000 US infants die avoidably
each year). 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably
each year out of an Indigenous population of about 0.5
million due to Third World living conditions and a 2-
to 3-fold underfunding of Aboriginal health (currently
$1.5 billion annually but should be $3 billion to $4.5
billion annually). [16, 17, 18].
20. The horrendous fiscal diversion for war in
Afghanistan (and in Iraq and indeed around the world)
has contributed to the ongoing Global Avoidable
Mortality Holocaust in which an estimated 24 million
people die avoidably each year from deprivation (16
million in 2003). [19].
21. Man-made global warming is a major problem for
Humanity, together with nuclear weapons and poverty.
The huge fiscal diversion for the Afghan War has
crippled the political will of America to tackle
man-made climate change.
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and
Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre
for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester,
UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion
people will survive this century due to unaddressed,
man-made global warming – noting that the world
population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050,
these estimates translate to a climate genocide
involving deaths of 10 billion people this century,
this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3
billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2
billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5
billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3
billion Bangladeshis.
The nations that need to curb greenhouse gas pollution
most quickly and indeed achieve 100% renewable energy
by 2020 if the world is to have a 67% chance of
avoiding a 2C temperature rise (estimates by Professor
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) are
indeed the worst polluting US Alliance countries,
namely the US, Canada and Australia.
"Annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution" in
units of "tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year"
(2005-2008 data) is 0.9 (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan),
2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African and Island
countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China),
6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed
World), 23 (Canada), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or
54 if Australia's huge Exported CO2 pollution is
included).
Professor Schellnhuber says that (all men being
created equal) an average annual per capita GHG
pollution of about 3 tonnes CO2-e per person per year
is needed over 40 years on the path to zero emissions
by 2050 for a 67% chance of avoiding a 2C temperature
rise disaster (worrying odds: would you board a plane
if there were a 33% chance of it crashing?) [20, 21,
22].
22. The US Alliance is involved in an Afghan Holocaust
(huge numbers of people dying) and an Afghan Genocide
as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention
which states : "In the present Convention, genocide
means any of the following acts committed with intent
to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic,
racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members
of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm
to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on
the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d)
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group."
It must be noted that mass murderers rarely confess
and "intent" is typically established by sustained,
remorseless conduct (for 9 years in the case of the US
Alliance in the Afghan War). [23].
23. The US Alliance is grossly violating Articles 55
and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Article 55. To the fullest extent of the means
available to it the Occupying Power has the duty of
ensuring the food and medical supplies of the
population; it should, in particular, bring in the
necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other
articles if the resources of the occupied territory
are inadequate. The Occupying Power may not
requisition foodstuffs, articles or medical supplies
available in the occupied territory, except for use by
the occupation forces and administration personnel,
and then only if the requirements of the civilian
population have been taken into account. Subject to
the provisions of other international Conventions, the
Occupying Power shall make arrangements to ensure that
fair value is paid for any requisitioned goods. The
Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty to
verify the state of the food and medical supplies in
occupied territories, except where temporary
restrictions are made necessary by imperative military
requirements.
Article 56. To the fullest extent of the means
available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of
ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of
national and local authorities, the medical and
hospital establishments and services, public health
and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular
reference to the adoption and application of the
prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to
combat the spread of contagious diseases and
epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall
be allowed to carry out their duties. If new hospitals
are set up in occupied territory and if the competent
organs of the occupied State are not operating there,
the occupying authorities shall, if necessary, grant
them the recognition provided for in Article 18. In
similar circumstances, the occupying authorities shall
also grant recognition to hospital personnel and
transport vehicles under the provisions of Articles 20
and 21. In adopting measures of health and hygiene and
in their implementation, the Occupying Power shall
take into consideration the moral and ethical
susceptibilities of the population of the occupied
territory. [24].
24. While Western Mainstream media, politicians,
academics, public servants and law enforcement
agencies ignore these horrendous realities in gross
violation of truth, humanity and rational risk
management, I have made repeated, detailed formal
complaints to the International Criminal Court over US
Alliance and Australian war crimes and genocide
complicity in Occupied Afghanistan and elsewhere.
[25].
[1] UN Population Division data: http://esa.un.org/unpp/
.
[2]. Just Foreign Policy: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/
.
[3]. Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqi...
.
[4]. UNHCR: Afghanistan: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/...
.
[5]. UK Telegraph, 22 April 2010: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...
.
[6]. UNICEF data on Afghanistan: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry...
.
[7]. Polish Holocaust, Afghan Holocaust and Western
Holocaust denial: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly...
.
[8]. WHO data in Afghanistan: http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/.
[9]. US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan: http://icasualties.org/oef/
.
[10]. Australian National Drug Research Institute,
"Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs responsible for 7
million preventable deaths worldwide", 2003: http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/media....
.
[11]. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), World Drug
Report 2007: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-... .
[12]. US foreign policy hugely supports global drug
trade, Bellaciao: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar...
.
[13]. Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/afgha...
.
[14]. Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes, "The true cost
of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond", Washington
Post, September 2010: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
.
[15]. Eli Clifton, "Bill for Afghan War could run into
the trillions", Informatiom Clearing House, May 2010:
http://www.informationclearinghouse... .
[16]. Gideon Polya, "Carbon burning, Zionism and war
kill 1 million Americans yearly", Newsvine, 2008:
http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/20... .
[17]. Gideon Polya, "The Awful Truth", National
Indigenous Times, June 2007: http://www.nit.com.au/news/story.as...
.
[18]. Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/abori...
.
[19]. Gideon Polya, "Body Count. Global avoidable
mortality since 1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007):
http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... .
[20]. Climate Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/clima...
.
[21]. Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact research, Terra
Quasi-Incognita: Beyond the 2 degree C line,
International Climate Conference, 28-30 September
2009, Oxford , UK: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/4degrees/pp...
.
[22]. Beyond Zero Emissions, "Zero Carbon Australia
Stationary Energy Plan", July 2010 (for free download
see: http://beyondzeroemissions.org/abou... .
[23]. UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sidesho...
.
[24]. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm
.
[25]. 9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon
Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US
Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim,
Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides: https://sites.google.com/site/pales...
.
Conclusion.
What must decent people do? Peace is the only
way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Decent people everywhere must (a) inform everyone they
can about the horrendous realities of the ongoing
Afghan Genocide and (b) apply and urge intra-national
and international Sanctions and Boycotts against all
those people, politicians, corporations and countries
complicit in this ongoing atrocity.
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