US War Crimes: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima
www.globalresearch.ca • Jul 23, 2010According to the authors of a new study, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 20052009, the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945. The epidemiological study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH), also finds the prevalence of these conditions in Fallujah to be many times greater than in nearby nations. The assault on Fallujah, a city located 43… Full Story »
