Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based humanist, scientist, academic, artist, and human rights and climate change activist (see: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).
For numerous articles about this atrocity see “Iraqi Genocide Iraqi Holocaust articles by Gideon Polya”, 2004- : https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/iraqi-genocide-iraqi-holocaust .
Dr Gideon Polya on Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide and US holocaust denial (13 December 2009): “Not only is the US involved in an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (post-1990 violent and non-violent excess deaths 4.4 million), the US and its Iraqi Puppet Régime are grossly understating post-invasion mortality rates to the United Nations Population Division… 1. According to the 2006 Revision UN Population Division data, medical literature data, and other authoritative sources, the Iraqi Holocaust has been associated with 1.1 million post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths; 1.4 million violent post-invasion deaths; and 0.9 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to gross US Coalition violation of the Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War which demands that an Occupier supplies food and medical requisites to “the fullest extent of the means available to it.” In addition, avoidable deaths under Sanctions (1990-2003) totalled 1.7 million, violent deaths in the Gulf War totalled 0.2 million and under-5 infant deaths under Sanctions totalled 1.2 million. Iraqi refugees (both inside and outside Iraq) total 5-6 million.
2. The ongoing Iraqi Holocaust (1990-2009) involves 1.6 million violent deaths, 2.8 million non-violent excess deaths, 4.4 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, 1.9 million avoidable under-5 year old infant deaths and 5-6 million refugees – an Iraqi Genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention definition of “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group“. The Iraqi Genocide - still continuing under Nobel Peace Laureate Obama - is of a similar magnitude to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
3. The US and US Puppet Iraqi Régime assertions, as reflected in 2008 Revision UN Population Division data, would have us believe that nearly 2 decades of Sanctions, Bombing, War and violent Occupation imposed on Iraq resulted in a steady decline in under-5 year old infant mortality, general death rate and avoidable death rate in Iraq.
4. The US under Obama and the US Puppet Iraqi Régime are involved in horrendous Iraqi Holocaust commission, Iraqi Holocaust denial, Iraqi Genocide commission and Iraqi Genocide denial.
5. All those politicians, public servants, academics and journalists complicit in the ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (most notably George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, George Bush Junior, Barack Obama, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair) should be arraigned for complicity in war crimes and genocide and /or for being accessories after the fact of war crimes and genocide.”. [1].
Dr Gideon Polya on Australian genocidal complicity in Iraqi mass mortality (2005): “The top ABC journalist, Tony Eastley, concluded: ‘The Australian Government has admitted it doesn’t know how many civilians have died in the Iraq war, and neither it, nor US authorities, are trying to find out.’ Indeed US authorities have repeatedly stated that they do not keep records of civilian casualties. However, as with the children overboard, the weapons of mass destruction and the torture of Iraqi prisoners, the truth eventually emerges. The latest UNICEF report in 2005 estimates that for the year 2003 the under-5 infant mortality was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan and 1,000 in the invading and occupying country Australia (noting that these countries have populations of about 25-million, 24-million and 20-million respectively). Using publicly available United Nations and medical literature data one can readily calculate that there have been about 0.4 million avoidable deaths in post-invasion Iraq. In 1991 the UK recommenced military action against Iraq that had kicked off in 1914. In 2003 the US, UK and Australia illegally invaded and conquered Iraq. I have calculated that the under-5 infant mortality was 1.2 million for Iraq since 1991; 0.2 million for Iraq since the 2003 invasion; and 0.9 million for Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion… The US, UK and Australia are clearly complicit in horrendous avoidable mortality and infant mortality in a swathe of invaded Asian countries in the post-1950 era. This now raises the philosophic issue of responsibility. The occupying ruler is responsible for the ruled, (noting ‘occupation’ includes military, economic and political hegemony and rule by client indigenous regimes). Further, whether an adult or child is killed violently or dies non-violently from deprivation or avoidable disease, the end result is the same and the culpability the same. In 2004 the estimated per capita medical expenditure was only $US37 in occupied Iraq, but $US3,100 in the invading and occupying country, Australia. This roughly one-hundredfold difference in per capita medical expenditure is reflected in a one-hundredfold difference in under-5 infant mortality. The provision of grossly inappropriate medical assistance in occupied Iraq at only about 1% of the per capita level in the occupying Coalition countries is criminal and genocidal.” [2].
Dr Gideon Polya on Iraqi Holocaust (2004): "Whether a person dies violently or in bed, any death that is avoidable requires public assessment of causality, culpability and complicity in order to make the world a safer place. Of course, whether a person dies violently or dies from avoidable disease or deprivation, the end result is the same.
I have been researching and writing a careful analysis of global mortality. My scientific analysis involves summarising mortality and its causes for all parts of the world throughout history. The ultimate aim of this analysis is to address the avoidable human mortality that accounts for the approximately 20 million people who die each year from deprivation and malnourishment-related causes. My analysis is powerfully illustrated by the situation in Iraq. The UK has been militarily involved in Iraq on and off for 90 years and the largely Anglo-American Coalition has been combating Iraqis since 1991.
Whatever our positions on Iraq, we are morally obliged to assess the actual human cost of our involvement there. One powerful approach is to estimate “excess mortality”, which is the difference between the actual deaths observed in a country and the mortality expected for a properly run, peaceful society with the same demographics.
The total excess mortality in Iraq, calculated using United Nations data, is 5.2 million since 1950 and 1.5 million for the period 1991–2004. The huge excess mortality in Iraq since 1950 is similar in magnitude to that of the Jewish Holocaust (six million victims) and the “forgotten” manmade World War II Bengal Famine (four million Muslim and Hindu victims).
My estimates of excess mortality for Iraq are consistent with the under-5 infant mortality in Iraq, estimated from UNICEF data to be 3.3 million since 1950 and 1.2 million in the period 1991–2004.
Excess mortality and infant mortality have declined dramatically for nearly all developing countries outside Africa over the past 50 years. In Iraq, excess mortality and infant mortality reached a minimum in the 1980s. However, this decline reversed after the 1991 Gulf War. According to UNICEF, in 2001 the under-5 infant mortality was 109,000 in Iraq, which has a population of about 24 million, compared with about 1000 in Australia, which has a population of about 20 million.
Rulers are responsible for the ruled. Accordingly the occupying Coalition, including Australia, is clearly responsible for the continuing excess mortality and infant mortality in Iraq. Both are estimated to be currently of the order of 100,000 per year, or about 300 per day.
John Valder, a former president of the Liberal Party, has recently called for war crimes trials of the leaders of the Coalition, adducing the illegality of the invasion of Iraq (The Age, 9 April 2004). Mass mortality in a conquered population also constitutes a war crime, as well as a humanitarian tragedy. The actual Iraqi death toll is not being reported and publicly discussed. Ignoring mass human mortality in Iraq amounts to holocaust denial." [3].
[1]. Gideon Polya, “Iraqi Holocaust Denial by US & Puppet Iraqi Régime”, MWC News, 13 December 2009: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34979/42/ .
[2]. Gideon Polya, “Australian complicity oin Iraq mass mortality”, ABC Radio National, Ockham’s Razor, 28 August 2005: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm and transcript also published in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007).
[3]. Gideon Polya, “Iraqi Holocaust”, ConScience, Australasian Science, 2 June 2004: http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33427-iraqi-holocaust/ .
Gideon Polya on the occasion of the 7 th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq (2010): “The following succinct letter is being sent to media world wide on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the US alliance invasion of Iraq
Dear Sir,
It is the 7th anniversary of the illegal and war criminal invasion of Iraq by US, UK and Australian forces on 20 March 2003. What has been the human cost?
As of 20 March 2010 post-invasion violent deaths in Occupied Iraq total 1.4 million (according to the eminent US Just Foreign Policy).
Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.8 million and post-invasion non-violent excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.1 million (based on 2006 revision data from the UN Population Division), this being identical to an independent estimate from under-5 infant deaths.
Gulf War violent deaths totalled 0.2 million and excess deaths and under- 5 infant deaths under Sanctions (1990-2003) totalled 1.7 million and 1.2 million, respectively.
In the period 1990-2010 Iraqi violent deaths totalled 1.6 million, non-violent excess deaths from deprivation totalled 2.8 million, under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention) totalled 2.0 million and refugees totalled 5-6 million.
This is an Iraqi Holocaust and an Iraqi Genocide as per Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention (cf WW2 Jewish Holocaust, 5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne , Victoria 3085, Australia
For further details see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ and “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ “ (Gideon Polya, “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide And 7th Anniversary Of Invasion Of Iraq”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2010: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya190310.htm ).
Gideon Polya on 12th anniversary on 19 March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 (2015): “Those with consciences recently marked the 12th anniversary on 19 March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 that was based on false assertions of Iraqi possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was conducted in the absence of UN sanction or Iraqi threat to the invading nations, and led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million). The West has now commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation have totalled 9 million. However Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the carnage, this tragically illustrating the adage “History ignored yields history repeated”” (Gideon Polya, “An Iraqi Holocaust: 2.7 million Iraqi dead from violence or war-imposed deprivation”, Information Clearing House, 27 March 2015: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41378.htm ).
Gideon Polya on the Mosul Massacre and the ongoing Iraqi Holocaust (2017): “It is estimated that 40,000 people died in the US Alliance’s Mosul Massacre involving the explosive demolition of a huge city of 2 million inhabitants. This is but the latest atrocity in an Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide. Iraqi deaths from Western violence and imposed deprivation total 9 million since the British invasion in 1914. The post-tsunami peaceful settlement of the Islamist insurgency in Aceh, Indonesia, demonstrated a humane alternative to genocide. US Alliance war crimes demand comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). The Mosul Massacre is but the latest in a Western-imposed Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide that has been ongoing since 1914 in oil-rich Iraq [9 million deaths from violence or imposed deprivation]” (Gideon Polya, “Mosul Massacre latest in Iraqi Genocide – US war crimes demand ICC & BDS”, Countercurrents, 24 July 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/07/24/mosul-massacre-latest-in-iraqi-genocide-us-alliance-war-crimes-demand-icc-bds/ ).
2021-09-21. Dr Gideon Polya Letter re War on Terror deaths. Dr Gideon Polya letter to Australian MPs, UK Labor MPs and Australian and worldwide journalists, editors, scholars and activists on US and Muslim deaths in the US War on Terror (2001-2021) (21 September 2021):
Dear fellow humanitarian,
The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity in which nearly 3,000 people died has been commemorated around the world with massive Mainstream media (MSM) coverage that ignores the horrible realities that the US did 9/11 and that over 30 million Muslims have been killed through violence and war-imposed deprivation in the 2-decade and continuing US War on Terror. Numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts conclude that the US did 9/11 (Google “Experts: US did 9/11”).
(1). Gigantic cost of post-9/11 US War on Muslims
(a). The $8 trillion long-term accrual fiscal cost. The long-term accrual cost of the War on Terror to America (e.g. taking debt interest payments and long-term commitments to veterans into account) has been expertly estimated at $3 trillion for the Iraq War and $2 trillion for the Afghan War. Brown University: “A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the US an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people” .
(b). 7,000 post-9/11 US military deaths. Post-9/11 US military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan were 2,465 and 4.586 respectively, for a total of 7,051.
(c). 146,000 post-9/11 US veteran suicides. The US veteran suicide statistics are horrendous – over the last 2 decades they have averaged 20 per day i.e. about 7,300 each year. In the last 20 years US veteran suicides have totalled 7,300 per year x 20 years = 146,000.
(d). About 3,000 deaths from 9/11-related disease from WTC collapse dust. It was estimated in 2018 that deaths from 9/11 diseases afflicting those exposed to the toxic dust from the demolition of the WTC buildings would soon outnumber the violent deaths on 9/11.
(e). 34 million preventable American deaths since 9/11. It is estimated that each year 1.7 million Americans die preventably from “lifestyle choice” and “political choice” reasons, the breakdown (2017) including 443,000 (smoking),
440,000 (adverse hospital events), 300,000 (obesity), 200,000 (air pollution), 75,000 (alcohol), 45,000 (lack of medical insurance), 38,000 (illicit drugs), 33,000 (motor vehicles), 31,000 (guns), 30,000 (suicide), 21,000 (avoidable under-5 year infant deaths), and 15,000 (homicide). Such preventable American deaths now total 1.7 million per year x 20 years = 34 million. As of 2020, 3.0 million Americans die each year and thus 57% of these deaths have been preventable.
(f). 420,000 avoidable American infant deaths post-9/11. Comparison with civilized Singapore indicates that 21,000 under-5 year old Americans die preventably each year and thus 420,000 have died thus since 9/11.
(g). 32 million Muslim deaths from violence and deprivation in the post-9/11 War on Terror. It was estimated in 2015 that 32 million Muslims had died from violence (5 million) and from war-imposed deprivation (27 million) in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9/11 false flag atrocity.
(h). Killing 32 million Muslims instead of keeping 34 million Americans alive. Considering (a), (e), (f) and (g) above, one can conclude that since 9/11 successive American Governments have committed $8 trillion to killing 32 million Muslims abroad (half of them children) rather than trying to keep 34 million Americans alive at home.
(2). Post 9/11 US-imposed genocides and holocausts, and deaths from violence and deprivation
(a). Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide deaths (2001-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 2.1 million; avoidable deaths from deprivation 2.9 million; violent deaths 1.1 million (based on comparison with the Iraq War and assuming that the Afghan War was 4 times less violent); total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 4.0 million.
(b). Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide deaths (2001-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 0.7 million; avoidable deaths from deprivation 1.0 million; violent deaths 1.5 million (based on Just Foreign Policy estimates from epidemiological and polling surveys); total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 2.5 million.
(c). Somali Holocaust and Somali Genocide deaths (2001-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 1.5 million; avoidable deaths from deprivation 2.1 million; violent deaths 0.8 million (based on Afghan War comparisons); total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 2.9 million.
(d). Iranian Genocide deaths from sanctions (2001-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 535,000; avoidable deaths from deprivation 750,000 (under egregious US sanctions).
(e). Palestinian Genocide deaths (2001-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 65,000; avoidable deaths from deprivation 91,000; violent deaths 9,500; total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 101,000 (these estimates are only for presently 5.2 million Occupied Palestinians and ignore 8 million Exiled Palestinians and 2 million impoverished Israeli Palestinians living under 65 race-based laws imposed by Apartheid Israel).
(f). Yemeni Genocide deaths (2011-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 472,000; avoidable deaths from deprivation 661,000; violent deaths 243,000 (based on Afghan War comparisons); total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 904,000.
(g). Libyan Genocide deaths (2011-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 19,000; avoidable deaths from deprivation 26,000; violent deaths circa 100,000; total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 126,000.
(h). Syrian Genocide deaths (2012-2021). Under-5 infant deaths 79,000; avoidable deaths from deprivation 111,000; violent deaths circa 500,000; total violent deaths plus avoidable deaths from deprivation 611,000.
(i). The US Alliance-imposed, post-9/11 passive mass murder of Muslims continues. Notwithstanding US Alliance withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2021, avoidable death from imposed deprivation in the US War on Terror (aka the US War on Muslims) is continuing in 20 countries variously invaded by the US Alliance since 9/11 as revealed by the following statistics for under-5 infant mortality, avoidable mortality from imposed deprivation, and population in millions (M), respectively, in these countries in 2020 (avoidable mortality is crudely estimated as 1.4 times the under-5 infant mortality) [2]: 1. Afghanistan (75,913, 106,273, 38.9M); 2. Burkina Faso (59,643, 83,491, 20.9M); 3. Central African Republic (19,329, 27,061, 4.8M); 4. Chad (79,518, 111,326, 16.4M); 5. Côte D'Ivoire (76,384, 106,938, 26.4M); 6. Djibouti (967, 1,354, 1.0M); 7. Iraq (30,059, 42,065, 40.2M); 8. Iran (20,070, 28,104, 84.0M); 9. Lebanon (1,222, 1,711, 6.8M); 10. Libya (1,472, 2,320, 6.9M); 11. Mali (81,085, 113,519, 20.3M ); 12. Mauritania (11,474, 16,063, 4.7M); 13. Niger (85,986, 120,380, 24.2M); 14. Pakistan (430,380, 616,890, 220.9M); 15. Palestine (2,743, 3,839, 5.1M); 16. Philippines (58,368, 81,708, 109.6M); 17. Somalia (72,376, 101,327, 15.9M); 18a. South Sudan (36,284, 50,792, 11.2M); 18b. Sudan (83,698, 117,191, 43.8M); 19. Syria (6,144, 8,602, 15.5M); 20. Yemen (47,191, 66,067, 29.8M ).
For details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Lying America did 9/11 and then killed 30 million Muslims”, Countercurrents, 20 September 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/lying-america-did-9-11-and-then-killed-over-30-million-muslims/ and please tell everyone you can.
Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne, Australia