IRCT Receives Funds Equivalent to 17 Seconds of War

If the US uses $5bn a month, then it uses $166,700m a day, $6.9m every hour and $115,740 a minute.

… My estimate is that in total the level of current funding to support torture survivors in Iraq amounts to less than the cost for one hour of warfare.

…the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) has obtained funding amounting to 17 seconds of warfare for a project that helps torture survivors who had their ears cut off during Saddam Hussein's regime. The project gives the amputees new ears through reconstructive plastic surgery,….

Brita Sydhoff, secretary general, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.

Brita Sydhoff, “A time of redress for torture victims,” Financial Times UK, 1/28/06.