Children of the Gulf War
WILPF Australian Tour Project
Children of the Gulf War Photos
The exhibit includes approximately 50 photos taken by Takashi Morizumi since 1998. Some of these photos appear in the book Children of the Gulf War. You can read Takashi Morizumi's introduction to the book. The following are some of the photos from the exhibit. (Please note that images in the exhibition are all black and white).
All photos are copyrighted © by Takashi Morizumi.
Oil fields burning from the war. |
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Ameriya Shelter: A cruise missile with a DU warhead hit the shelter on February 13, 1991. The hundreds of people, mostly children were burned alive inside the shelter. The shelter is being preserved as a memorial. |
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A young boy next to bombed apartment house where many residents were killed. |
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Falah Hussein (age 20): When a U.S. dud bomb suddenly exploded, he lost his right leg. Two years later, he contracted bone cancer that spread to his lung. His doctor predicted he wouldn't survive another two weeks. |
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Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra, South of Iraq. Depleted uranium, with it metal toxicity and radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys. A needle was injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy. She died soon after the painful injection. 
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Mothers with children in their arms in leukemia ward of Mansool Children's Hospital in Baghdad. |
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8-year old Safaa at the entrance to Mansool Children's Hospital. She was leaving because they had run out of medicine. As a side effect of the anti-cancer medication she was taking to treat her leukemia, she had lost all of her hair. But she was only too happy to be going home. |
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Juwad has lost 550g in four months since his birth. His parents were unable to buy milk for him. He suffered from heavy diarrhea due to malnutrition. The hospital had almost no antibiotics available. Babies with low resistance are highly susceptible to infectious disease. Many fail to escape death. |
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Baby born with anencephaly (without a skull). His shocked mother disappeared from the hospital. |