URGES BAN ON USE OF NAPALM
(Bertrand Russell, who initiated civilian. The main cause of death was nathe War Crimes Tribunal that recently palm bombing. Eyewitness reports from found the U.S. government guilty of ag- Lebanese doctors speak of continuous nagression and other crimes against peace palm bombing of roads where civilians and against humanity in Vietnam, has been were fleeing from the West Bank. Ambufollowing the events in the Middle East lances and medical units were bombed. with close attention. On June 12 he de- Three hospitals were totally destroyed. nounced the blitzkrieg carried out by the Refugees in and around Amman are esti- Government of Israel as “aggression.” mated by UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agen- See World Outlook, June 30, p. 644.) cy] and others at 100,000, of whom 60,000
were already refugees living in the camps
{On June 27, in another statement near Jericho which were bombed....The to the press, Bertrand Russell expressed estimates of Egyptian casualties are still his revulsion over the Israeli use of very rough. It is feared that there may napalm in its attack on the neighboring be as many 2s 20,000, some of them mili- Arab states. The world-famous philosopher tary..." The vimes published a report from and pacifist urged that this fiendish Cairo on June 19 of its correspondent's "antipersonnel" weapon belongs in the visit to vict.ms of napalm in hospital. same category as dumdum bullets and gas chambers and should be banned. The full Napaim causes third degree burns text of his statement follows.] which destroy the whole thickness of the
skin, and frequently destroy the underly-
“** ing muscles and even the bones. If the
wounds remain open for long, keloids (or
There is now extensive evidence hypertrophic scars) occur on the scars. that Israel used large quantities of na- There is also the danger of fibrosis and palm in its recent blitzkrieg against its contracticn of the scars which usually Arab neighbours. U Thant announced on leads to pronounced disability and dis- June 9 that the United Nations represen- figurement. The keloid formations can tatives on the spot had reported to him become cancerous. that Israeli aircraft were "continuously bombing, napalming and strafing" Syrian positions. The Washington Post has re- It is abundantly clear that napalm ported Syrian hills “covered with burned is an antipersonnel weapon which has no and blackened fields, silent testimony to place in any civilised community. Whether the liberal use of napalm." The Beirut it is used in Syria or Vietnam, the Andes correspondent of the Economist has re- or Iraq, it is intolerable in its fiendported that in Jordan the informed esti- ishness. Napalm must be banned in the mate is "between 14,000 and 18,000 people same way as dumdum bullets and gas chankilled, of whom maybe almost half were bers.
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