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石器時代に戻ったバグダッド
摂氏50度のなか，1日20から20時間にもおよぶ停電
「このようなひどい状況はイラク人にとって新しいことではない．12年間にわたって同じ困難のもとにおかれてきた．アメリカ人は単に侮辱を付け加えただけだ」
意図的な電力および水の停止はアメリカ主導の占領当局に対する集団的懲罰である．
Baghdad Back To Stone Age
By Nidal al-Assadi, IOL Iraq Correspondent
BAGHDAD, July 6 (IslamOnline.net) - With power outages for long hours that could reach 20 to 23 hours a day and people resorting to primitive methods to cope with backbreaking hardships in the searing 50 degree celsius, the U.S. troops have turned Baghdad into a Stone Age city.
A water vat in the house's corner and a lantern barely spreading its dim light through a lightening wick that helps children study for tomorrow's exams though with drooping eyes, while the mother stand cooking for her children with coal and the daughter fanning with fronds in the stifling heat of July.
This is almost the case in every house in Baghdad as put by Maisaa, an Iraqi girl living in the elite Al-Khadra district in Baghdad. In the near past, many houses in the war-scarred country was full of state-of-the-art domestic appliances, but now that almost three months have elapsed since the downfall of the Iraqi capital to the hands of the U.S. occupation TV sets, radios electric ovens and other appliances have become something of a luxury.
"Acute water, gas and fuel shortage together with power outage forced Iraqis to use traditional things instead of such appliances, however, these much sought-after basics are of sky-rocketing prices with one lantern hitting 2000-4000 dinars (one dollar equals around 1300 Iraqi dinars) compared to its original price of 250 dinars," said Ikhlas Mohammad, a professor of psychology at Baghdad University.
"When you pronounce words like electricity and water you, no doubt, conjures up visions of civilization and life…But we are no leading our lives without water or civilization," Thurayaa Mohidin, a biologist, echoed the same feelings.
She continued: "But such appalling conditions is nothing new for Iraqis, who suffered for 12 years the same hardships under the ousted Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein…The Americans only added insult to injury."
"Can anybody imagine that I daily read theses on the dim light of lanterns in the sweltering heat of the room…Is this the freedom that the U.S. has promised us it would break the yoke of 35 years of injustice? Are not these (U.S.) practices brazen violations of the rights of oppressed and down-trodden people, who were born to find themselves the people of the world's richest country?" She wondered.
"Majority of Iraqis have already had their fill of these conditions and I fear that it the lull before the storm," she said after a breath of relief.
Diseases
Um Radi, 39, a housewife and a mother of 7 children said that power outage and Iraq's stifling heat afflicted her three-year-old daughter with severe diarrhea, given that she could not bear such temperatures.
"When I went to the hospital I was shocked by the large number of babies who suffered typhoid and dermatitis," she said.
As for Abu Ahmad, an engineering graduate, circumstances beyond his control forced him to work as a tailor.
"We used to sleep on the roof to escape heat and enjoy the night's breeze under the moonlight…But U.S. Apache helicopters pace the night sky at lower altitudes and have the gall to step their shoes out to our humiliation," he said.
'Honeymoon on Roof'
Um Ahmad said that her nephew spent his honeymoon on his house's roof which overlooks the Tigris River.
"It seems as if the Iraqi people were predestined to suffer all along starting from the U.K. occupation in 1917 till today…The occupation is aimed at forcing the Iraqis to live under poverty, starvation and oppression," said Walid Umar, a post-graduate student.
"Can anyone imagine that the people of a country like Iraq, which abounds in natural resources such as oil, depleted uranium, phosphor and mercury, have now to drink from water vats to stay alive? Even the Iraqi sand is now at great demand at the moment by giant corporations because it is the raw material of the world's best ceramics," he added.
Iraqis charged that the U.S.-led occupation authority deliberately cut off electricity and water as a collective punishment in retaliation for mounting resistance attacks, which have become more organized as recently admitted by U.S civilian administrator Paul Bremer.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-07/06/article08.shtml
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