European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. May 27, 1991the stars and stripes Page 3. Ians a in medics experience horror humor with kurd by Joseph Owen. A. Staff writer a _. Silo i Turkey a the Canadian forces medics treating thousands of malnourished refugees suffering from rare ailments under bizarre circumstances thought they a seen it All. 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-member 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 Mountain Ous Border with Iraq. Most kurd have descended from their precarious Mountain sanctuaries so the canadians departed saturday for in Ciurlik 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 accomplished a said army 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. Unusual afflictions impressed some team members the most. A a in be seen a lot of Vitamin a deficiency something you never see in the.west-, Ern world a or. Capt Michel Petit said. The deficiency contributed to a High incidence of cataracts among refugee children 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. The 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 a a a a a a. A a. A amps Joseph Owen Canadian Chi. Alain Cantin and . Army pvt. 2 Gloria Cuevas treat a kurdish child suffering front a jaw infection at a Mountain Camp on the iraqi turkish Border. Seaman Brian Murray 28 of Fredericton new Brunswick a medic serving at the Kani Masi station. 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 headlights. A passenger in one such Accident died of internal injuries after the Kani Masi team tried for 90 minutes to save him Murray said leading Seaman Donny Cook a 20-year-old medic from St. Johns Newfoundland said lie helped treat three . A  injured in a mine explosion one lost both his legs below the Knees As Well As an Eye and was. Evacuated to Wiesbaden Germany in critical condition. Then there were the comic Relief eases like the dirt eater and the 10-year Case of constipation.  think Juv a number to get a a a a medication a they Hoard medication a said army Chi. Shawn Macdonald 30. A medic from Saint John new Brunswick. The displace Canadian family turned lip at the Yumlu Camp in Turkey said army capt Pierre Charpentier the medical detachment operations officer. A a the parents a a emigrated from Iraq to a Canada As political refugees in 1974 and became Canadian citizens lie said. When the whole family went to Iraq for a visit in 198 a the iraqis drafted the father for the w a against i ran. . Iranians captured him and released him to Iraq after the War ended in 1988. 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 fled to the Hills the family went with them. At , the medical Loam arranged to move the family to silo i. By wednesday the six were in Ankara awaiting a flight Home to Ontario. Such tales of Good Dor tune tended to gel lost however in the Stream of a.  from malnutrition and from Quot dehydration due to diarrhoea. Many children died before the medics could treat them. Murray said lie watched with binoculars As mothers climbed higher into lie mountains to Lime 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 lie said. Chi. Tracey co Liam 25, of Gagetown new Brunswick said flip kurd 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. �?�1 done to think-that-1 will Ever to Rke anything for granted again a she said. Japan reportedly plans to offer postwar Aid Tokyo apr a Japan plans to provide $500 million to help Cope with Post persian Gulf 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 refugees 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 last. Japan s 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 weakened by the time the contribution was approved in parliament and handed Over. The United states has insisted that Japan make up the resulting $500 Mil Jon shortfall 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. Kyodo quoted the sources As saying that the new Aid will be earmarked for postwar problems but that it does cover the shortfall. When vice president Dan Quayle visited Japan last week. Prime minister Toshiki. Kaifu told him he hoped .-Japan relations would not suffer from the dispute Over the contribution. Before the dispute Japan had pledged another $2 billion for the multinational forces in the persian. Gulf 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 Cuk Urca Turkey the last of the High Mountain refugee Camps on the turkish Border has turned into one of the the world s largest bus stations. Fewer than 35,000 kurdish muslims 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 a serpentine dirt Road leading to Iraq. Along the Way army sgt. 1st class Paul Cook bathed in a Cloud of dust i reeled  the increase of trucks just keeps coming As the other Camps Start emptying out. Thai s Good. Quot a Iid c ook a member of 109th special forces from fort livens mass. A _ most refugees were destined to Doh us the iraqi provincial capital recently vacated by the iraqi army. A . 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 in Dozhuk. But word of the trouble had not reached Cuk Urca on sunday and it is not Clear whether it would have had any effect on the exodus. About 120 trucks departed saturday and by 10 . Sunday another 50 were under Way. As the t Rucks clattered off to Ward lower Altitude Way stations refugee men sat in Long lilies on the nearby ridges and watched. Other men tried to sell their Small Stock of cigarettes just inside the barbed wire Ca . Teen age girls carried Large heavy jugs of water Back to their tents. I he Hillside below the bowl shaped Cuk Urca Camp is speckled with human waste. Hundreds of empty plastic water bottles and other rubbish Maik a Creek bed. A helicopter Crew Man familiar with the Camps said he has seen Many refugees empty their water bottles on the ground before climbing to the higher elevations to fill the bottles w Ith a purified Spring water. All the Mountain Camps but Cuk Urca had closed by saturday