Elites & Genocide

"(...) everyone needs to remember that on the most critical count, sanctions worked."

The New York Times Editorial
14 October 2004


"The very provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights are being set aside. We are waging a war, through the United Nations, on the children and people of Iraq, and with incredible results: results that you do not expect to see in a war under the Geneva Conventions. We're targeting civilians. (...) I had been instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide"

Denis Halliday resigned in 1998 after thirty-four years with the United Nations in protest against the effects of the embargo on the civilian population. He was then Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN's Co-ordinator of Humanitarian Relief to Iraq.

From "The New Rulers of the World"
by John Pilger