> "It is difficult to assess how many people in this poor African country
> died as a consequence of the destruction of the Al-Shifa factory, but
> several tens of thousands seems a reasonable guess. The factory produced
> some of the basic medicines on the World Health Organization list,
> covering 20 to 60 percent of Sudan's market and 100 percent of the
> market for intravenous liquids. It took more than three months for these
> products to be replaced with imports. It was, naturally, the poor and the
> vulnerable who would suffer from the plant's destruction, not the rich."
>
> http://www.hir.harvard.edu/articles/index.html?id=909
That's the only support I know of: one person's "reasonable guess" (albeit the reasonable guess of someone in a better position to speculate than I; it counts for something, but not much).
> An attempt by the UN to hold an inquiry into the matter was blocked by
> the US. --CGE
Repugnant.
-- Luke