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Topia!: Society: Issues: Economic: Sanctions: on Iraq (88)
See Also:  Report to UN Security Council re: Iraq - Comprehensive report by Ramsey Clark on the huge death tolls and devastation created by the Gulf War and the 10-year economic sanctions against the people of Iraq.Iraq Action Coalition - Campaigns against both the sanctions, and bombing of Iraq. Actions & Statements by Groups Opposing the Sanctions on Iraq - Many press releases and news items. Banning Child Sacrifice - A Difficult Choice? - By Kathy Kelly. "Repeatedly, the US media describes Iraq's plight as 'hardship.' Video footage and still photographs show professors selling their valuable books. Teenage students hawking jewelry in the market are interviewed about why they aren't in school. These are sad stories, but they distract us from the major crisis in Iraq today, the story still shrouded in secrecy. This is the story of extreme cruelty, a story of medicines being withheld from dying children. It is a story of child abuse, of child sacrifice, and it merits day to day coverage." Campaign of Conscience - The Campaign of Conscience is a faith-based nationwide campaign to awaken the soul of the American people, by demanding the lifting of the non-military sanctions against the people of Iraq. Five most-repeated US government lies about Iraq policy - by Sara Flounders, anti-war organizer at the International Action Center. International War Crimes Tribunal: US War Crimes against Iraq - Includes use of outlawed weapons; intentionally bombing schools, hospitals, mosques and churches; killing after a cease-fire; and starvation of citizens. IPA: Autopsy of a disaster: The US sanctions policy on Iraq - From the Institute for Public Accuracy. A timeline of the Iraq crisis, from Aug 1990 to Nov 1998. Briefer version also available. Iraq: Sanctions - The Silent Weapon - Sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction. From 1990, when sanctions were imposed on Iraq until 1995, half a million children under the age of five died of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Sanctions impose artificial famine. A third of Iraq's surviving children today have stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies that will deform their shortened lives. Sanctions on Iraq deny human rights - US and British politicians talk about "upholding human rights", but their own records show it is all a cynical scam. SAY NO TO SANCTIONS! SAY NO TO RACISM! - How do you get to be a rogue nation? By standing up to the dictates of Washington. Iraq is a country that sits on top of a sea of oil and it has refused to allow the U.S. finance capital to rapaciously exploit its resources. That's Iraq's "crime." U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE CONTINUES MASS MURDER OF IRAQI CIVILIANS - The Clinton administration is ignoring the pleas of many thousands of Americans of conscience, the Vatican, The World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, humanitarian relief agencies, educators, socially responsible professionals, and people of all political persuasions to end this silent war. The Silent Holocaust - Of all the victims of sanctions, children are the most affected. According to a report by prominent child psychologist Professor Magne Raundalem for UNICEF this is 'the most traumatised child population on earth'. Iraq Water Project of Veterans for Peace - A national project to educate the American public about the effects of economic sanctions against Iraq's civilian population. Information on general effects, as well as maps and information on disabled water treatment plants. Al-Iraq.com - Dedicated to raising awareness about Iraq above and voicing the plight of the Iraqi people that are suffering a slow holocaust. Iraqi children - Johanna Berrigan, a Catholic Worker lay person out of Philadelphia, is used to working with poor people, but she wasn't prepared for a "death row for infants" that she found in Baghdad hospitals. Life & Death in Iraq - Special Report from the Seattle Intelligencer. Without Medicine And Supplies, The Children Die - Iraq medical staff must decide who will live and who will die because sanctions prevent ordinary medical supplies from reaching the war torn country. AP article by Jeffrey McMurray. Iraq Resource Information Site (IRIS) - Iraqi History, culture, people, archeology, music, and oppression (Iran Iraq and Persian Gulf Wars and Sanctions embargo) along with video, audio, and photos. Sanctions on Iraq - A comprehensive site on the effects of the embargo and action people can take. Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) - A UK campaign to lift the U.N. sanctions against Iraq, run by students at Cambridge University. Unicef estimates an additional half million Iraqi children under five years old to have died under the sanctions. Children of Iraq - Newsletter about the plight of the children of Iraq, with eyewitness reports.
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