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200 00$aWetlands of mass destruction$b[electronic resource] $eancient presage for contemporary ecocide in southern Iraq /$fedited by Robert Lawrence France ; foreword by Edward Ochsenschlager ; essays by Nik Wheeler, Emma Nicholson and Rasheed Al-Khayoun
210   $aSheffield, Vermont $cGreen Frigate Books$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (248 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-9717468-3-4 
327   $a""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Past-Present Ethno-Archaeological Linkages in Iraqa???s Marshlands: Edward L. Ochsenschlager ""; ""Preface - Out of Timea???s Abyss: Voices of Portent  ""; ""Prologue of Yesterday - In the Garden of Earthly Delights: Eden Found ""; ""Introduction to Today - Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Paradise Lost ""; ""Album and Essays""; ""Part One: Water""; ""a???A Swamp He Made Into Dry Landa???""; ""a???What the evil winds had sent hithera???""; ""a???Disturbed was the Tigris rivera??? ""
327   $a""a???The mena???knew not watera??? """"a???The watera???has gone bada???""; ""a???I shall weep for you, the pure Euphratesa???""; ""Essay One:""; ""Witness to a Lost Landscape: The Marshes in the Mid-Seventies: Nik Wheeler ""; ""Part Two: Ecology""; ""a???The Lorda???s Word Kills the Marsha??? ""; ""a???I shall dig out reed thicketsa???""; ""a???The eartha???s outcrya???""; ""a???Not even a reed marsh was to be seena??? ""; ""a???The mantles of radiance were losta??? ""; ""a???In the fields the surface had become bada??? ""; ""a???My tears ran down my cheeksa???""; ""Essay Two:""
327   $a""Human Rights Issues in the Iraqi Marshlands: A Case for Genocide: Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne  """"Part Three: People""; ""a???A Reed Pipe of Dirgesa??? ""; ""a???He plotted evil, to devastate the land, to destroy peoplea??? ""; ""a???A day of dooma??? ""; ""a???The dead outnumber the livinga???""; ""a???Their hands have caught youa???""; ""a???The people scattereda???""; ""a???Laughter is become lamenta???""; ""Essay Three:""; ""Experiences and Hopes of the People of the Al-Ahwar Marshes: Rasheed Bander Al-Khayoun ""; ""Postscript for Tomorrow""; ""The End is Nay: Eden Restored ""
327   $a""Appendix""""Harvard Universitya???s Collection of Near Eastern Artifacts and Archive of Early Marsh Arab Photographs""; ""Inscription and Quotation Key ""; ""Inscription Sources""; ""Photograph Key""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the Contributors ""
330   $aThis important account investigates the ruin of the Mesopotamian marsheshistorically one of the world's most important wetland environmentsalong with the decimation of an area inhabited, since the time of the Sumerians, by thousands of people living on artificial islands of mud and reeds and depending on sustainable fishing and farming. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq, the history of this important ecological and unique cultural jewel, which was destroyed under Saddam Hussein's reign through a series of constructed dams and water diversions designed to eradic
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606   $aGenocide$zIraq
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