{"id":14618,"date":"2012-12-06T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:06:54","slug":"us-sponsored-genocide-against-iraq-1990-2012-3-3-million-killed-including-750000-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14618","title":{"rendered":"US Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 – 3.3 Million Killed, Including 750,000 Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012. Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children<\/strong>
\nBy Sherwood Ross – Global Research – 6 December, 2012<\/p>\n

Statement by Professor Francis Boyle, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal<\/p>\n

Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were \u201cexterminated\u201d by economic sanctions and\/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.<\/p>\n

The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, \u201cDeliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,\u201d says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and who in 1991 filed a class-action complaint with the UN against President George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and U.K. \u201cobstinately insisted\u201d that their sanctions remain in place until after the \u201cillegal\u201d Gulf War II aggression perpetrated by President George W. Bush and UK\u2019s Tony Blair in March, 2003, \u201cnot with a view to easing the over decade-long suffering of the Iraqi people and children\u201d but \u201cto better facilitate the U.S.\/U.K. unsupervised looting and plundering of the Iraqi economy and oil fields in violation of the international laws of war as well as to the grave detriment of the Iraqi people,\u201d Boyle said.<\/p>\n

In an address last Nov. 22 to The International Conference on War-affected Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Boyle tallied the death toll on Iraq by U.S.-U.K. actions as follows:<\/p>\n

# The slaughter of 200,000 Iraqis by President Bush in his illegal 1991 Gulf War I.<\/p>\n

# The deaths of 1.4 million Iraqis as a result of the illegal 2003 war of aggression ordered by President Bush Jr. and Prime Minister Blair.<\/p>\n

# The deaths of 1.7 million Iraqis \u201cas a direct result\u201d of the genocidal sanctions.<\/p>\n

Boyle\u2019s class-action complaint demanded an end to all economic sanctions against Iraq; criminal proceedings for genocide against President George H.W. Bush; monetary compensation to the children of Iraq and their families for deaths, physical and mental injury; and for shipping massive humanitarian relief supplies to that country.<\/p>\n

The \u201cgrossly hypocritical\u201d UN refused to terminate the sanctions, Boyle pointed out, even though its own Food and Agricultural Organization\u2019s Report estimated that by 1995 the sanctions had killed 560,000 Iraqi children during the previous five years.<\/p>\n

Boyle noted that then U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright was interviewed on CBS-TV on May 12, 1996, in response to a question by Leslie Stahl if the price of half a million dead children was worth it, and replied, \u201cwe (the U.S. government) think the price is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albright\u2019s shocking response provides \u201cproof positive of the genocidal intent by the U.S. government against Iraq\u201d under the Genocide Convention, Boyle said, adding that the government of Iraq today could still bring legal action against the U.S. and the U.K. in the International Court of Justice. He said the U.S.-U.K. genocide also violated the municipal legal systems of all civilized nations in the world; the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocol 1 of 1977.<\/p>\n

Boyle, who was stirred to take action pro bono by Mothers in Iraq after the economic sanctions had been imposed upon them by the Security Council in August, 1990, in response to pressure from the Bush Senior Administration. He is the author of numerous books on international affairs, including \u201cDestroying World Order\u201d (Clarity Press.) …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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