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US Coalition-restored Afghan opium & 0.4 million global drug deaths

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 30 October 2005
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Wars and conflicts International Health USA Gideon Polya

Since 2001 there have been about 0.4 million global drug deaths linked to US Coalition re-establishment of globally-dominant Afghan opium production (almost completely destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but 76% and 86% of global production in 2002 and 2004, respectively, after US Coalition invasion and conquest).

Of these 0.4 million post-2001, US Coalition-complicit, opioid-related deaths 1,200 have been Scots, 2,000 Australian, 3,000 Canadian, 3,200 British and 50,000 American.

7 million people die each year from tobacco, alcohol or illicit drugs [annual market value about US$1 trillion, US$0.9 trillion and US$0.8 trillion, respectively], the annual breakdown being roughly 5 million, 1.8 million and 0.2 million, respectively. Australian David Hicks has been abusively imprisoned for 4 years without trial by the US after allegedly being part of the Taliban that eliminated this deadly drug trio from Afghanistan.

Australian Nguyen Tuong Van is facing execution in Singapore for carrying 0.4 kilograms of deadly heroin deriving from the 4,200 tonne annual opium production in US Coalition-conquered Afghanistan - yet the complicit US Coalition leaders remain unexposed and unpunished.

One can understand why intrinsically racist, Anglo-American mainstream media resolutely refuse to report the horrendous post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now total 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively [0.5 million and 0.3 million, respectively, in Occupied Iraq] (UN data) - but why won’t they report the Coalition-complicit drug deaths of 3,200 Britons and 50,000 Americans?

For an exhaustively referenced analysis “US Coalition Complicity in 0.4 Million Drug Deaths” on Al-Jazeerah see:
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%...
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please inform all your associates.

Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne, Australia

Credentials: Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently finishing a book on global mortality - numerous articles on this matter can be found by a simple Google search for "Gideon Polya" or consulting his website:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpo...

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