No end is in sight for terror bombings in Turkey

Headline TURKEY: No end is in sight for terror bombings

KAMEDO Report Summaries

The Swedish Disaster Medicine study organization, KAMEDO, was described in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 1999; 14(1):18–26 and three reports, Numbers 69–71, were published there. An aim was then to publish the KAMEDO summaries on a regular basis. Since then, two more KAMEDO reports—No. 72: Terror Bombings in Jerusalem, Ashkelon and Tel-Aviv 1996 Summary and No. 73: Thirty-five Years of Disaster Medicine Studies—have been released and the summaries of these two reports are hereby published.

Gas Warfare

Surfeited with the unprecedented horrors of World War II, the moral consciousness of the Western world has become jaded. There was a time-in the mid-1930's—when it protested Mussolini's practice of forcing castor oil down the throats of political prisoners and then parading them in public while stalwart Fascists watched the spectacle with sadistic glee. During his Ethiopian campaign, Mussolini's use of irritant gases to give brave but ill-shod and illequipped Ethiopian tribesmen “the hot foot” was also condemned by a moral conscience that had not yet learned to accept the organized cruelty of World War II—the terror bombings of both British and German cities, and the unexampled savagery of the German invasion of Russia, widely heralded by Nazi propaganda as a great anti-Communist “crusade.“