FALLUJAH, Iraq, Apr13,2012(IPS) - At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects - there are just too many. Parents dont want to talk. Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone, says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. "Its all too shameful for them."
"We recorded 672 cased in January but we know there were many more" says Hadidi. He projects pictures on to a wall at his office: Children born with no brain, no eyes, or with the intestines out of their body.
"In 2004 the Americans tested all kinds of chemicals and explosive devices on us: thermobaric weapons, white phosphorus, depleted uranium...we have all been laboratory mice for them" says Hadidi, turning off the projector.
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