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From: Biswanath Halder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:33 AM
Subject: Iraq Under Siege > > 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 > NSP Lista isprobava demokratiju u praksi ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq 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 ==^================================================================ |
