[Reader-list] Afghan Genocide: An Open Letter By Dr Gideon Polya (fwd)

[Venugopalan K M]

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Afghan Genocide: An Open Letter

*By Dr Gideon Polya*

09 July, 2009
*Countercurrents.org*

*An Open Letter sent out to Anti-war groups and Anti-war folks around the
world *

*Dear Sir/Madam,*

I applaud your protests over the Bush (now Obama) wars in Occupied
Afghanistan and Occupied Iraq.

A 5 decade research career biological scientist, I have been reporting
estimates of how many people have died in Occupied Afghanistan since the
US-led invasion using UN Population Division data. My recent estimates
(2009) are outlined below. For details of methodology see “Obama’s Afghan
War”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29546/42/ .

In Occupied Afghanistan post-invasion non-violent excess deaths (avoidable
deaths from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease) total 3
million; post-invasion violent excess deaths (assuming the same ratio of
post-invasion violent/non-violent excess deaths as in Occupied Iraq of 1.3)
total 4 million; post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths total
3-7 million; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.3 million;
post-invasion avoidable under- 5 infant deaths (90% are avoidable) total 2.1
million; 3-4 million refugees have been generated plus a further 2.5 million
Pashtun refugees from the NW Province of Pakistan under Obama war policies –
an Afghan Holocaust and an Afghan Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN
Genocide Convention
(see: http://www.edwebproject.org
/sideshow/genocide/convention.html
<http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html>).

Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention (see: http://www.edwebproject.org
/sideshow/genocide/convention.html
<http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html>) 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.”

Much of this carnage is due to US Alliance violation of Articles 55 and 56
of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in
Time of War which demands that an Occupier must provide life –sustaining
food and medical requisites to the conquered population ”to the fullest
extent of the means available to it” (see:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm ) – yet the “total annual per
capita health expenditure” permitted by the Occupiers in Occupied
Afghanistan is merely $29 as compared tot $6,714 in the Occupier country the
USA (see WHO: http://www.who.int/countries/en/
<http://www.who.int/countries/en/%20>).

The carnage does not stop there – we must also note the 0.7 million global
opiate drug-related deaths since 2001 (circa 3,000 in the UK ) due to US
Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan industry from about 6%
of world market share in 2001 to about 93% at present (see UN ODC World Drug
Report 2007: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/
data-and-analysis/WDR-2007.html
<http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/WDR-2007.html>) .

Appallingly, there are only a couple of scholars currently identifying this
continuing catastrophe as an Afghan Genocide, notably myself (on the basis
of the above data) and top humanitarian US lawyer Professor Ali Khan (on the
basis of the US Alliance policy of attempted extermination of an Indigenous
religious group, the Taliban) (see:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya080208.htm ).

A final damning statistic: the “annual death rate” is 7% for Occupied
Afghanistan under-5 year old infants - as compared to 3% for inmates of the
Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp and 10% for Australian prisoners of war
of the Japanese in World War 2 (for which crimes Axis generals were tried
and hanged) (see: http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/08/2907231-obama-
holocaust-denial-in-buchenwald-cairo-speeches-?groupId=1350
<http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/08/2907231-obama-holocaust-denial-in-buchenwald-cairo-speeches-?groupId=1350>
).

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please
tell everyone you can.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne, Australia

*Dr Gideon Polya* published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career,
most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of
Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London,
2003). He has recently published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality
since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polyaand
http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contribution
“Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries &
Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007):
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/
ockham/stories/s1445960.htm<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm>).
He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998
book
“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see:
http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and
climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine
catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7
million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC
broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen
and others: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/
bengalfamine_programme.html<http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengalfamine_programme.html>).
When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon
Polya’s
huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see “Truth , Beauty &
Saving the World – Science, Art & Nuclear, Greenhouse & Poverty Threats”:
http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeacepl
anetmotherchild/truth-beauty-saving-the-world
<http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/truth-beauty-saving-the-world>
.


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