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Saddam Hussein's writ does not extend over the 6,800 sq. mi. of marsh that covers southern Iraq. There Shi'ite army deserters and Marsh Arabs who rose in rebellion after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War carry on their fight against Saddam. But they fear that their struggle may be doomed now that Baghdad has undertaken the systematic despoliation of the age-old Shi'ite sanctuary in the marshes. Over the past 20 months, according to captured documents and engineering plans now trickling out of Iraq, the government has nearly completed work on a huge project...
Draining the swamps is only part of Saddam's campaign to subdue the south. Iraqi military units have effectively encircled the area, enforcing a near total economic blockade and cutting off escape routes into Iran. Government artillery regularly bombards the marshes, and mines have been strewn across the landscape. Army forays into the villages bring terror to the 200,000 local Marsh Arabs. A captured Iraqi document details the elements of the siege: "the withdrawal of all foodstuffs, a ban on the sale of fish, prohibiting means of transportation to and from these areas." The document also calls for mass...
...rebels in Tehran say the fish, buffalo and rice that were the staples of life are gone. They claim the Iraqi army is using poison to kill marsh wildlife, and they show videotapes of hundreds of fish floating belly up on the brackish waters. Emma Nicholson, a British M.P. who has made three trips to the marshes, says the inhabitants can no longer sustain themselves. In the past eight months, more than 350 villages have been destroyed by shell and rocket fire. "The only way to live in the marshes today is to remain alone and move every day," said...
...marsh fighters have given up hope that the Western allies will mount a large-scale rescue. "When we saw the allied jets ignore the guns that were killing us and hit only the missiles that threatened their planes last year, we knew we had been abandoned," said a rebel leader in Tehran...
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