Sunday, October 16, 2005
Chemical attack: The forgotten victims of the 8-year war between Iran & Iraq - BBC News
[I'd recommend reading the whole article - here's an initial excerpt:]
Each plane dropped four bombs, weighing 250kg each. The smoke was yellow, green, red, black. One man said it was like a rainbow, another said it was as if the sky was covered in plastic clingfilm.
The birds started dropping out of the trees and then the people fell.
Two hundred and seventy five died that morning in a place of worship - many of them women and children.
Some of those who survived now believe it would have been better to have perished instantly.
Like 19-year-old Hedieh. Her name means "a gift", but now she is a terrible burden to her family.
She has to spend four hours a day attached to an oxygen cylinder. It is expensive and needs refilling every week in the nearest town, three hours drive away.
Hedieh would like to go to university, but that is out of the question.
The most she can do is help her mother shell the walnuts which are now in season. "I am waiting to die," she says.
"Every day I get steadily worse and the doctors cannot do anything."
Her eyesight, her skin, her breathing have all been affected. ...
[I'd recommend reading the whole article - here's an initial excerpt:]
Each plane dropped four bombs, weighing 250kg each. The smoke was yellow, green, red, black. One man said it was like a rainbow, another said it was as if the sky was covered in plastic clingfilm.
The birds started dropping out of the trees and then the people fell.
Two hundred and seventy five died that morning in a place of worship - many of them women and children.
Some of those who survived now believe it would have been better to have perished instantly.
Like 19-year-old Hedieh. Her name means "a gift", but now she is a terrible burden to her family.
She has to spend four hours a day attached to an oxygen cylinder. It is expensive and needs refilling every week in the nearest town, three hours drive away.
Hedieh would like to go to university, but that is out of the question.
The most she can do is help her mother shell the walnuts which are now in season. "I am waiting to die," she says.
"Every day I get steadily worse and the doctors cannot do anything."
Her eyesight, her skin, her breathing have all been affected. ...
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