A chamber of horrors so close to the 'Garden of Eden' In Foreign Parts in Basra, Southern Iraq Andy Kershaw 01 December 2001 I thought I had a strong stomach – toughened by the minefields and foul frontline hospitals of Angola, by the handiwork of the death squads in Haiti and by the wholesale butchery of Rwanda. But I nearly lost my breakfast last week at the Basrah Maternity and Children's Hospital in southern Iraq. Dr Amer, the hospital's director, had invited me into a room in which were displayed colour photographs of what, in cold medical language, are called ...