Baghdad - who work in Iraq in a cemetery needs in the conflict-rich country to worry that he could go out in spite of high unemployment the job. Attendants and grave diggers have their hands full, to bring the civil war victims in the ground and maintain their identity.
As the authorities with the recording of deaths are overwhelmed trying to gravediggers like Ali to write down the names of the victims that need to bury. Ali works in Baghdad's biggest cemetery in Abu Ghraib district. "One and a half years, far from 2006 into 2007, we were brought daily 40-50 dead" he says.
Few of these people had seen a natural death. "About two-thirds fell at the hands of the Shiite Mahdi Army of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. In another 25 percent were to other victims of violence," says Ali. "Nobody at that time the identity of the dead identified. We did not ask for the death certificate, but tried, to bury the bodies as quickly as possible,"
military post is the cemetery
for a year of access to the largest burial site of the Iraqi capital, which is constantly guarded by a checkpoint of the Iraqi army. "Before In 2006, all the people here and simply buried their dead. No one had been informed, "said the sexton.
Not far away, in the Municipality Al-Adhamiya, there is in a former parking a cemetery with more than 5,000 graves. According to the cemetery manager Abu Ayad Masir Walid is the exact number of dead, were buried, unknown. The 45-year-old works since early 2006 here, when followers of different Islamic groups provided bloody battles and turned the park into a graveyard.
"The first martyr, was buried here, was Gaith Al- Samarai, leader of the Al-Hurria mosque, "said Walid and has a grave stone." Until were the present day on the site exactly 5500 bury the dead, "he says, leafing through a notebook." Here I have listed all the names, but so far have neither the representatives of the media still directing government officials, according to the number of buried here dead inquired . Not even the Ministry of Health seems to be interested. "
Given the official lack of interest in the cemeteries in the country, on the number of fatalities, which has called the Iraq war is questionable. The last serious study is from Iraqi and U.S. American doctors and was in the British journal The Lancet published on 11 October 2006.>
high death toll of the war
The organization
'Iraq Body Count' (IBC)
keeps the number of civilian war victims in the same period for substantially less, and speaks of 98,850 dead. IBC is to record on an independent database, all civilians, came from military operations by the U.S. Army and its allies to death. This information from commercial media and non-governmental organizations are considered as well as data from official bodies, hospitals and fibers Leichenschauhäu.
Meanwhile, put the men to the cemeteries in the country, the unofficial death ben BEGRA, continue with their own accounts of the death. Now no one knows their numbers. - Beriacht by Dahr Jamail
Frankfurt - health initiatives in India and Germany call on the Bayer Group to withdraw a recently filed suit against the Indian government. The Asian section of Health Action International, the Indian People's Health Movement, the Coalition against Bayer Dangers, who fear BUKO pharmaceutical campaign, the club of democratic doctors and medico international, that the process threatens the admission practices of generic drugs in India. In the case of a limited supply of affordable medicines threatens the death of thousands of patients.
had late last year, BAYER, the Indian accreditation body for pharmaceuticals Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) sued because they had granted the Indian company Cipla approval for the patented cancer drug Nexavar. Currently, the DCGI grant approvals for generic drugs, even if the substances still exists for patent protection. This is to ensure that come immediately after the expiry of a patent cheap copycat products on the market. According to health experts, this practice does not constitute infringement, since too early sale of generic drugs can be stopped in court. BAYER calls, however, be given in case of an existing patent is not, in principle approval for generic products. Amit Sen Gupta
from the Indian People's Health Movement: "The demands of BAYER even go beyond the TRIPS Agreement established patent rules. One outcome of this case would have serious consequences for access to affordable medicines - not just for Indian patients, but for poor people in many parts of the world. BAYER apparently wants to expand not only its own patent rights, but set a precedent. This would delay the use of life-saving generic drugs generally "added
Philipp Mimkes of the Coalition against Bayer Dangers". The acclaimed worldwide system of cheap drugs supply in India is in danger if the approval of pharmaceutical products is generally followed patents. We call BAYER, therefore, to withdraw the complaint. Public health must take precedence over patents and monopoly profits of the pharmaceutical industry. "According to the CBG countries like India have the right to regulate the drug market to ensure the supply of the population.
In most countries of the world patent issues are not considered in the granting of pharmaceutical approvals. These are normally responsible patent offices. Both the Indian Act as well as the international TRIPS agreement to protect intellectual property approvals of generic drugs still see before the end of a patent. This is to ensure that after or in case of withdrawal of a patent immediately generics can enter the market and they do not only have to go through a time-consuming approval process. And clinical studies of generic manufacturers should be made possible by this.
Bernd Eichner Medico International ", in the case of life-saving drugs already cost a delay in the approval of cheap generic drugs for several months, hundreds or thousands of lives, because patented drugs for much of the population is not affordable."
As a member of the World Trade Organization WTO had forced India to implement by the year 2005 the international TRIPS agreement to protect copyrights. The Indian Parliament had it but several mechanisms to protect the health care decision. The previous claims were particularly developing countries, jeopardizing the production of Indian generic drugs. India is in many parts of the world's most important supplier of cheaper generic drugs. As cost-Indian tablets for anti-HIV therapy instead retrivirale 10,000 U.S. dollars for brand name drugs only $ 200 per year. (11/02/2009)
This explanation is supported by:
- Health Action International Asia
- Peoples Health Movement India
- Medico International
- Coalition against Bayer Dangers
- BUKO pharmaceutical campaign
- Association democratic doctors
contact for inquiries and interviews:
- Dr K Balasubramaniam, HAI Asia - Pacific, Tel: 0094 112 554353, bala@haiap.org, www.haiap.org
- Amit Sen Gupta, Peoples Health Movement ctddsf@bol.net.in India, http://phm-india.org - Philipp Mimkes, Coalition against Bayer Dangers, CBGnetwork@aol.com, www.cbgnetwork.org, 0211 - 333 911
- Bernd Eichner, Medico International, 069-94438-45, Eichner@medico.de, www.medico.de
- BUKO pharmaceutical campaign, 0521-60550, www.bukopharma.de, info@bukopharma.de
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