Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:11:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Biswanath Halder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Iraq Under Siege To: undisclosed-recipients:; ############################################################## ## If you would not like to remain on my mailing list, please send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type "REMOVE" in the Subject line, and in the body type in all of your e-mail addresses. ############################################################## ## Over the last eleven years, United States-manipulated and United Nations-imposed economic sanctions -- and massive bombings by the United States and the United Kingdom -- have claimed the lives of 1.5 million people in Iraq. Most of the victims are children under the age of five. The damage to infrastructure resulting from bombings and economic sanctions has left this once prosperous nation crippled and dying. The combined effect of these actions has been devastating: hyper- inflation, massive disease proliferation in both people and animals, mass migration, chronic malnutrition, extreme poverty, increased crime, collapse of medical services, collapse of agriculture, collapse of water and sewage processing, increased reliance on the state. The list is endless. In March 1999, a special United Nations Security Council panel reported, "The gravity of the humanitarian situation of the Iraqi people is indisputable and cannot be overstated." Iraq, the report states, has "experienced a shift from relative affluence to massive poverty." Prior to the imposition of sanctions, Iraq's health care system was regarded as among the best in the Middle East. Today, however, children die from epidemics of once preventable diseases. The special Security Council panel also reported that "the infant mortality rates in Iraq today are among the highest in the world." The US government actively supports sanctions to prevent the production of "weapons of mass destruction," while itself remaining the world's largest producer, distributor, and user of weapons of mass destruction. Condemned by Pope John Paul II, this undeclared war by insidious means is not only immoral but also illegal by standards of international and US law. The embargo directly violates the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter, the Constitution of the World Health Organization, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. Furthermore, according to US law, the blockade of the Iraqi people is also an act of international terrorism. All compassionate and rational people should oppose the inhuman policies of the US and the UK against Iraq. Let us send a loud and clear message to them to end the eleven-year-long siege. Please sign the petitions at the following URL: http://junior.apk.net/~halder/poll.html A. Petition to Stop the Sanctions and Bombing Against Iraq B. Petition to the British Parliament (at the Mariam Appeal) C. End the Iraqi Sanctions (to the UN/US/UK Administrations) D. Petition to the UN Security Council Addressing the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
