European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 27, 1991the stars and stripes Page 3canadians apply Healing hand experience horror humor with kurd by Joseph Owen. Staff writer a a. It silo i Turkey the Canadian forces medics treating thousands of malnourished refugees suffering from rare ailments under bizarre circumstances thought they a seen it  a a a a. Then a kurdish Man asked for Medicine to get his son to Stop eating dirt followed by a kurdish woman who tried to convince them that she had t had a Bowel movement in 10 years. And then up pops a family of six canadians trying to get Back to London Ontario its been anything but Dull for the three. 15-Mcmbcr medical teams from Lahr Germany who began deploying to Turkey on april 18. They spent five weeks providing emergency treatment to refugees on. Either Side of the mountainous Border with Iraq. Most kurd have descended from their precarious Mountain sanctuaries so the canadians departed saturday for incur Ltd. A to prepare for the flight Home later this week. A we had a fairly Well defined Mission when we came Here and its been a comi is h e a said a r my maj. Allan Darch who directed the. Teams in the Field ,. The Mountain Camps where they worked Are closed and the . Army 501st support in from Vilseck Germany took Over for them at the crowded lower Altitude Kani Masi transit station v unusual afflictions impressed some team members the most a live seen a Jot of Vitamin a deficiency something you never see in the Wester world a  capt Michel Petit said. The deficiency contributed to a High Jenci de Nee of c a Tara c is a to n g refugee Chil Dren Petit said. Worse yet was a wave of severe malnutrition in which protein deficiency and atrophied Muscles often left children unable to respond to treatment and they died _ s t he canadians also treated patients for problems unrelated to the kurdish uprising or Lack of nourishment in the mountains a a we be had a lot of traumatic situations. Here with car accidents and people falling off various things a said leading i. A amps Joseph Owen Canadian Cpl. Alain Cantin and us. Army pal. 2 Gloria Cueyas treat a kurdish child suffering from a jaw infection at a Mountain Camp on the iraqi Turki Sli Borders s Seaman Brian Murray a 28, of Fredericton new Brunswick a medic serving at the Kani Masi station. R. Moving trucks were so overloaded with passengers that some fell out he said. Others were injured in head on collisions caused by the kurd so tendency to drive at night with no head fights a passenger in one such Accident died of internal injuries a after the Kani a Masi team it tried for 90 minutes to save him Murray said. A leading Seaman Donny Cook a 26-year-old medic from St. Johns Newfoundland said he helped treat three a a a s.  injured in a Niino. Explosion. One lost both his legs below the Knees As Well As an eve and was evacuated to Wiesbaden i cranny in. Critical condition. Then there were the comic Relief cases like the dirt eater and he 10-year Case of constipation a to Bey just think up a num a Bero get Indi Calion they Hoard medication a a said army Chi Shawn Macdon Aid 30, a medic from Saint John. New Brunswick. The displaced Canadian family turned up at the a Mui Camp in Turkey said tinny capt. Pierre Charpentier the medical detachment operations officer. The patents emigrated from Iraq to Canada As political refugees in 1974 and became Canadian citizens lie said when the whole family went to Iraq for a visit in 1986, the iraqis drafted the father for the War against Iran. The iranians Cap. Lured him and released him to Iraq after the War ended in 1988. ,. A a disagreements with iraqi officials left the family stuck in Iraq after that. Then came the persian Gulf War followed by the unsuccessful kurdish rebellion. When the kurd lied to the his the family went with them. _ a  Zumla t h pm e d i c a lie a m a ran g e d to move the family to silo i. By wednesday the six were in Ankara awaiting a bight Home 10 Ontario. Such talks of Good Fortune tended to get lost however in the Stream of patients suffering from malnutrition and from dehydration due to diarrhoea. Many children died before the medics could treat them. Murray said he watched with binoculars As mothers climbed higher into the mountains to Bury their dead children. Digging Graves with their Bare hands. A you become cold to it after a while or it gets to your head a he . Tracey co Liam 25, of Gagetown new Brunswick said the kurd so primitive living conditions dismayed her but she judged the deployment As a Good learning experience and a proper application of her training As a medic. A Quot. A a i done to think that i will Ever fake anything for granted again a she said. Japan reportedly plans to offer postwar Aid Tokyo apr Japan a plans to provide $500 million to help Cope with Post persian go 1 f War problems a a the amount the United states contends it still owes from a previous pledge Kyodo news service reported sunday. Quoting unnamed government sources Kyodo said the Aid would be for kurdish Rufu Gocs and. Environmental cleanup work. A foreign ministry officials said there has been no decision on additional Aid. But they have said. Japan was willing to consider Aid to help Cope with postwar problems in the Middle East Japan a latest pledge of Aid to the Allied forces that drove Iraq out of Kuwait had been calculated at $9 billion but its yen currency had Vucak. Ened by the time the contribution was approved in parliament and handed Over. _ _ _ the United states has insisted that Japan make up the resulting $500 million  Quot Japan has said that its taxpayers have delivered the payment the government pledged and that it did not intend to compensate for fluctuations in the Exchange rate. Kyc Ido quoted the sources As saying that tic new Aid will be earmarked for postwar problems but that it docs cover the shortfall. When vice president Dan Quayle visited Japan last week prime min ister Toshiko Kaifu told him he hoped .-Japan relations would not suffer from the dispute Over the  the dispute Japan had pledged another $2 billion for the Multi National  a a a in , raising its total contribution to nearly is 1 billion. It also promised s2 billion for nations Hurt by the Trade embargo against Iraq. Refugees streaming from last turkish Camp by Joseph Owen _ staff writer Auk Urca Turkey the last of the High Mountain refugee Camps on the turkish Border has turned into one of 1 the the worlds largest bus stations. Fewer than 35,000 kurdish muslims7,&Quot assyrian christians and other refugees remained in the Cuk Urca Camp sunday a far cry from the Peak of More than 150,000 several weeks ago. Huge convoys of trucks and buses hired by the United nations and the United states a each overflowing with refugees a lurched and swayed Down serpentine dirt Road leading to Iraq. Along the Way army sgt. 1st class Paul Cook bathed in a Cloud of dust directed traffic a a a the increase of trucks just keeps coming As the other Quot Camps Start emptying out that a Good a  co of a member of 109th special of fees from port in Vens  refugees were destined of. Dozhuk the iraqi provincial capital recently vacated by the iraqi army. A �.-i spokesman said that 19,000 refugees had poured into the City on saturday alone. There were reports of violence in the City As crowds attacked iraqi police who had remained i n Dozhuk but word Oft he t Rou b i e had not read h cd cd k u Ria o n s u n Day and it is not Clear whether it would have had any effect on the exodus. About 120 trucks departed saturday and by 10 am sunday a Solher 50 we re under Way. As t he trucks Clat Ter cd off to Ward lower Altitude Way stations refugee men sat in John lilies on the nearby ridges and watched. Other men tried to sell their Small Stock of cigarettes just inside the barbed wire Camp Entrance. Teen age girls carried Large heavy jugs of water Back to their tents. The Hillside below the bowl shaped cd Korea Camp is speckled with human waste. Hundreds of end pay plastic water bottles and other rubbish Mark a Creek bed. A Heikici it Pter crewman a m i 1 car wit h t he sail he has seen Many refugees empty their water bottles on the group tube Camps fore climbing to the higher elevations to fill the bottles with  Spring water. All the Mountain Camps but Cuk Urca had dosed by saturday