Old Man

An old Iraqi man at the market. The old are also the ones to suffer from sanctions along with the young.

Literacy rates have dropped from 75 per cent eight years ago to 53 per cent today; infant mortality was now the highest in the world.

Sixty five percent of the population are not functioning. Store owners sit and play dominoes with each other.

All the industrial sector is at a standstill.

One in four children suffering malnutrition.

One in ten children suffering acute malnutrition.

Twenty eight percent cronic, which is extremely difficult to ever correct. Children are brain damaged for life.

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