Sun, 23 Feb 2003
More news from Iraq
The human cost of external pressure for "regime change" is enormous;
this article in
The Independent
puts it in perspective. And if there was any justice, certain politicians
in the west would hang for it.
"I had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the
definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed
well over a million individuals, children and adults. We all know that
the regime -- Saddam Hussein -- is not paying the price for economic
sanctions; on the contrary, he has been strengthened by them. It is the
little people who are losing their children or their parents for lack
of untreated water. What is clear is that the Security Council is now
out of control, for its actions here undermine its own Charter, and the
Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention." (Denis Halliday,
UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq, explaining why he resigned from the
post in 1998.)
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